Q: Mac Pro (mid 2012) graphics related crash?
Specs: Mid 2012 Mac Pro (quad core 3.2 Ghz intel Xeon processor) with 8gb ram and ATI Radeon HD5870 graphics card. Using latest version of Adobe CC, running the latest OSX.
Been working on Premiere Pro CC and I wanted to render out the footage (via Media Encoder) but the screen gave a grey screen and then a flicker, disappeared for a moment and came back. But the screen now had these "blinking dots" spread over my desktop. The rendering still continues but is riddled with gross encoding issues.
I realised that it only happens when a large graphics demanding processes starts. Although, when in normal operation (browsing on safari, text edit etc) I still get a minor flickering of the screen but not as severe as described above and therefore normal operation continues (and no flickering dots).
When resetting, the dots disappear and everything appears back to normal but the problem consistently comes back under fairly the same circumstances. Had one instance of a crash resulting in an automatic system restart. This happened when trying to encoding directly out of Premiere Pro.
Any ideas? My thoughts immediately went to the Graphics Card being the problem. Are these symptoms of failing graphics hardware?
Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
Posted on Aug 25, 2016 12:49 AM
