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After 10.6.4 Update Black Screen

Hello,

I have run into something that is driving me crazy. I have a Mac Pro Early 2008 and decided to do the 10.6.4 update. Update goes through, after chime and Apple Logo, it goes black and video becomes unresponsive, not output from video card. However you can hear everything booting up in the background (Skype, Volume Up and Down Sound from keyboard, etc). I have used Time Machine to Restore and now I am back on 10.6 and its okay. I have a ATI Radeon HD 4870 as a video card, so I don't know if its a video driver issue, but I can't figure it out. I have tried resetting PRAM, doing simple troubleshooting steps. Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have not tried it with another monitor for I don't have one to test, my current monitor is a 30" Samsung SyncMaster 305t plus hooked up via DVI. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you

Mac Pro Early 2008, Mac OS X (10.6), ATI Radeon HD 4870 Video Card

Posted on Jul 2, 2010 7:34 PM

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Dec 3, 2010 12:55 PM in response to straycat23

Macjam:
I have finally discovered the reason the acrylic blacks out. I was using a Dr. Bott DVIator for power to the Acrylic. I took a chance and bought an Apple DVI to ADC power adapter/brick and plugged it in to the acrylic with my Radeon 4870. Now it lights up fine with OS 10.6.5. Evidently, you are using a Dr. Bott adapter too. Not to say the Dr. Bott is bad, but I think the Apple adapter has one of the "trusted chips" that Apple puts in to much of its hardware since using Intel processors.

After 10.6.4 Update Black Screen

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