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Further down it says Meikry instead of Memory and QBCD BraeDKS instead of UBCD FreeDOS. This continues through all the submenus and is actually worse i.e. there is more text corruption in the submenus. Is this a known issue with UBCD on iMac or is it likely to be part of the problem I'm trying to identify?
If I go to Peripherals -> Video Memory Stress Test V1.7 and run the test then this fails instantly and every part of every test fails. If I leave it running for several hours it eventually stops with an error regarding swap space. These two problems would suggest a problem with the graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 8800 GS) but I don't feel I can trust this test as it reports that there is only 14MB (14 680 064 bytes) of video memory. Interestingly this test does not display the text corruption but seems to run in a Windows style window so maybe that's the reason
Any help/info/advice on the above would be welcome as I need to be sure of the problem before potentially spending £200 on a replacement graphics card
Thanks