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[smilesdavis]

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Yep gfx issues i guess

Also tested on a second monitor via dvi

Repasting? What can fix a tibook gfx card?

„ 867 MHz (introduced Nov 2002) uses the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 GPU. This chip is known to develop graphics issues due to heat and age — especially solder fatigue under the GPU (BGA).“

[laulandn]

To rule out or at least nail down what is going on, you might try some sort of very temporary "extreme cooling", like a giant (human room) fan right next to it blowing on it with the case off, maybe through a funnel tube or something else insane like that.  Anything to see if it is stable once cooler.

You'd want to make sure it IS the gpu, and not something else, maybe more easily fixable, before going further.  It could be anything, maybe even general heat melted something slightly loose.

I love my tibook, but they are relatively fragile or at least finicky machines.

I put an SSD in mine, and afterwards had similar behavior, but found it was...probably?...just screws too tight?  Shielding somewhere touching something?  Who knows!  Regardless, it is stable now, I knew it was something super goofy, that I had done, but never nailed it down.

Wishing you luck!