Display blown up

Hi all, I seem to have turned on the magnification that has the desktop blown up, and can't get it back to normal, i.e. you don't have to go up/down or left/right to see all of the desktop.

Thanks for looking, I found the answer on another post on page 4-5.

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Please try and offer some type of suggestion....
i got a second Apple Cinema display the other day. The white, plastic kind.
so, now i have two. yay!
except when i plugged in the new/ second display into my powermac G5, it immediatley put the cpu to sleep...hmmm
woke it up, and the display was working fine.
except the USB ports didn't work anymore...
i needed the USB ports though for my mouse and keyboard. so, i plug my original apple cinema display in again, works great
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ARRRGHHH
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- plugging in the second display changed a setting in the Mac that allows the USB ports on the display to work....
no clue
i've restarted
unpluged and replugged both displays
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Reset SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
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http://scn.sap.com/thread/1665437
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Got a problem that's confused me.
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Happy to carry out any further tests anyone can think of.....
thanks in advanced for the help
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Hi,
you are correct I see nothing on external monitor, regardless of Fn+F5.
I can boot the machine and log into it remotely though remote desktop, vnc etc once in I can use the machine as normal just without a screen.
On the occasion when Fn+F5 does bring back a picture, its very distorted - almost to the point of corrupt. However a screen grab of that and then viewed on another machine shows the capture to be perfect.
So the fault lies somewhere between what the main board and the screen.
As I noted previously this laptop has a seperate VGA controller card which I have replaced with a know working one.
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Still no different.
any thoughts?

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Still nothing.
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Toggled Fn+F5. The external screen turned off but nothing on the laptop screen. Toggled back to external screen to a perfect display on that one.
Have installed the latest driver for the nVidia chip.
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Help please! Going gaga trying to find the problem.
Have I missed something????

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Output to external display

My Imac has blown graphics card on the logic board, else the machine runs perfectly except for the black screen but the screen works in safe mode. If I use an external display can I overcome this issue?

Hi Mdn,
My Imac has blown graphics card on the logic board, else the machine runs perfectly except for the black screen but the screen works in safe mode.
I don't think it can have a blown GPU ( It's a chip rather than a card. Who gave you that diagnosis? ) since if that chip was bad it would always be bad.
It seems like a software issue to me.
Have you tried starting from the install disk?
Here's a post from Mac OS X forums by kisuke3 answering:
"I'm having issues with my intel based G5 Power PC which is running OSX 10.5.6.
When I boot it up lines appear across the screen & the machine freezes. If I boot in Safe mode I do not get this issue.":
"safe boot does not load start up items. So if its not happening in safe boot it could possibly be the startup items or login items. Obviously you need to delete those startup items
1. Boot into safe mode
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3. Library/Startup items Delete everything here as well
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