23 inch LCD Cinema Display Power on?

I just got one of the older aluminum body cinema displays from a garage sale. I came home plugged it into the wall and hit the power button and nothing is happening should it be turning on and displaying something on the screen or do you have to plug it into a macbook/computer for it to power on?

I had the exact same problem and fortunately I own a second 23" display so I swapped AC adapters and it came back to life!
But the bad news is that I then bought a used adapter on ebay to replace it and that adapter died as well. Same display killed both dead adapters. I'm wondering if the display could be drawing too much power.

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Philip

That monitor will work with a computer that has a DVI port, but you need this card to get a dual-link DVI port which is required to use it at its full capacity.
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I have a G4 Tower with the original AGP ATI Radeon 9000B video card. My friend gave me this unit just recently but not the original monitor. Well after he got his new 30" Cinema Display he gave me the original 17"LCD Cinema Display. I was so happy, plugged it into the card and fired up the CPU but nothing! just blank! It is not getting any power for the USB ports or anything. My buddy says the monitor was checked before I picked it up. I yanked the Video card out and put it back in, inside the CPU was clean as was the card, put it back together and still nothing. The VGA monitor I have is connected via adapter to the other input and works fine. I tried doing display settings and the Cinema is not even detected. Is the Video card fried on the digital side?
Do I need a new one?
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Any help wold be appreciated.

Hi MFG,
Welcome to the discussions.
The G4 AGP Graphics model originally shipped with an ATY Rage 128 graphics card. The ATI Radeon 9000 graphics card that is installed in your G4 is not the original card.
The ATI Radeon 9000 comes with a native ADC port (which you are trying to use). This port is only fully functional if the computer is ADC enabled. Your model of G4 is, unfortunately, not ADC enabled.
You can confirm this by opening the computer and having a look at the AGP slot (where the graphics card is installed). In ADC enabled Macs, there is an extra slot at one end of the AGP slot to accomodate an "extra leg" that the ADC graphics cards (such as the ATI 9000) have. This extra leg supplies the power and USB feed. You'll probably find this extra leg with no slot for it to go into.
What this means is that you are not getting power and USB feed through the ADC port to your display.
If you want to get the 17" ADC Apple LCD display working off this card (it's definitely the LCD display and not the CRT display, please confirm), you will need to use a DVI to ADC adaptor such as this one:
http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?code=0111-DVAD
and run it off the DVI output.
You can run your VGA screen at the same time (if you want to) off the ADC output by using this adaptor:
http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?code=0117-ADCV
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G4-450 DP with a 22 inch clear Cinema display will not work, please advise

Hello all
I can not seem to get a G4-450 DP to work with a 22 inch clear Cinema display, i even have one of those dr.botts wich i normaly run a 2nd 15" clear display.
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Hi-
Could you check your system profiler for graphics, and post the model of the card that you have? The stock card is the Rage 128 with the following specs:
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You say you have a DVI port (along with ADC) so, I want to clarify the card model.
You also state that the display worked once- in what configuration? Connected alone? Through the Dr. Bott's DVIator? That means from the DVI port to an ADC connector on the screen (but the 22" is a DVI connection)?
I found the following quote on the Dr. Bott's page:
However, the ATI Rage 128 card will not work with the 20", the 22" and the 23" Cinema Displays
To clear up confusion (mine), please carefully check your profiler, compare the ports of your card to the Display compatibility link (in above post), and let me know the results (what you have), along with a description of what connects to what. A model number for the display would also help.
Generally speaking, when a display goes black after the gray screen, the graphics card isn't compatible, or the necessary software/drivers are not installed.
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Is the 24 inch Apple Cinema Display the best choice are there non-Apple monitors that will do as good or better job with HD editing and output?

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24 inch LED cinema Display miniDisplayPort (2009) goes black with my MacBook Pro 2009.
It was working perfectly, but one day my cinema display went Black , and my cinema display is not recognized by my macbook !
And when I bring it to an Aple Store, it worked !
It seems to be a random issue.
I can't find what is the problem...
I tried my cinema display with another macbook and it works.
I tried my Macbook with antoher screen and it worked.
Please help me.

I doubt reinstalling the OS will fix your problem but that's you choice.
FWIW I found the following 6-page thread which may be a similar problem to yours but you will have to search through it for relavance or ideas (I didn't read it):
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Did I get this right?
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This has happened perhaps 8 or 10 times over the last few months, and IIRC always when I'm playing WoW. I know WoW heats up my Pro more than anything else because I can hear the cooling fans speeding up when I load and play it.
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And it's happened twice since then, both while playing WoW. After the latest reboot my temps are 49c for display, 45c and 48c for CPUs. The Mac has been on for over 6 hours before I ran up Wow with no problem, in Wow for maybe 5 minutes and there it goes.
The latest Mac updates to iTunes 10.1 and OS 10.6.5 were applied a few hours ago, well before this latest crash.
My best guess is that either some component has gone temperature-intolerant that didn't used to be, or there is something in the latest WoW version that is triggering some hardware, driver or OS problem. I really don't have much of an idea where to go now. Any suggestions?

How can I connect a 30 inch HD Cinema display to a 2010 MacBook Pro?

Is it possible to buy an adapter to connect a 30 inch cinema display to a 2010 MacBook Pro?

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Any ideas why that is?
thanks,
TT

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Having the exact same issue, same set of circumstances.

23 Inch Apple Cinema Display

Recently I have had some difficulties with my cinema display.
The Problem:
I power my machine on in the morning and my display will not launch. My monitor is not flashing any error code sequences at me. At times it takes anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes for my display to light up and show the desktop. I took the display in to the Apple store to have a genius look at it. After watching the genius plug the monitor in to 4 other computers (using the same power connector's I use at home) and work without any problems, we know it is not the monitor that is the problem.
I need to take the machine back in to have it tech'd, but I was trying to do some debugging on my own to see if I can determine the issue at hand. I have tried resetting the SMU on my Power Mac G5 (late 2005 model). The reset seemed like it worked the very first time I tried it, but since then I have been back in the same boat. I also reset the PRAM/NVRAM which did not yield any intriguing results.
I have noticed my monitor seems to show its display quicker if I do not attach the USB key to the G5 until the display is working.
I would like to know the following:
Anyone else have an issue similar to this? If so, how was it solved?
Could it be a power supply issue, or possibly a graphic card issue?
Any debugging tips?
Specs: Power Mac G5 (late 2005), nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, 2GB RAM
Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

If you have the acrylic (clear) model M8536 or M8537 and you are using it with the ADC to DVI adapter, then you may want to question the adapter itself. If you are connecting it directly to the graphic card, then I would check the card. If your display is the aluminum (newer model) then I would think the graphic card is the problem, since the geniuses did not find any problems. I really don't think the display is at fault.

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I recently bought a 23" cinema display and a mac mini. I just received the cinema display in the mail, and plugged it in, but it won't turn on. I do not have the Mac Mini yet, it will get here on Monday, so I'm just trying to make sure the display will turn on or does it have to be connected to a computer to power on? Thanks.

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