09-08-2016, 04:45 AM
Onamuji wrote:
You could try safe-booting.
(Hold down shift key during the boot-process from the chime to the appearance of the Apple logo.)
It disables many drivers.
But I wouldn't bet on it being the GPU at fault with a Mac that old. Time to drop it on the curb.
It boots into the recovery disk fine; the screen looks pristine, which I understand used the integrated graphics rather than the accelerated graphics, so this would probably be ok.
Safe Mode did not work, unfortunately