I hate it when things break and they're just out of warranty - My Mac Pro

[Feek]

I got home from work tonight and saw that my Mac Pro seemed to be awake, the light on the front wasn't pulsing but the screens were on standby. I don't have any screen saver/blanker in operation so that was a bit odd.

I tried to wake it up but failed so I did what I hate doing and that's to hit the power button. When it started I had horrible video corruption and although I could see the Apple logo, that's all I could see. Only one of my two monitors started and it stayed on the Apple logo. It was booting successfully, I could tell from the sound but the display didn't work.

I reset the SMC, reset the PRAM and tried again - The pattern had changed but it was still the same corruption.

So I took out the nvidia 8800GT and slapped the original ATI 2600 *shudder* in and it booted perfectly.

So it's the graphics card.

My Mac is 12 days out of warranty. I'm going to call Apple tomorrow and see what the score is because I had some warranty work done at the end of November and I don't know whether that work effectively extends the warranty on the system for three months because if it does then I'm covered. At least I do have a working system but it'd be good to have the 8800GT back in rather than this ATI card.