Display resolution and appeaarance

My 13" display got oversized, but it is set at the highest resolution. I have set it lower and then reset it restarted computer, also did hard restarts.What next? Cat walked across keyboard to make it happen. Thanks!

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Display resolution and Mac OS X 10.5.7

I am now using my Mac mini (early 2009) as my primary computer (new aluminum keyboard and an LG 23" LCD HDTV) and have sent the iMac Core Duo to "the boys" room for them to use. But they have called my attention to the display resolution a few times since I updated it to 10.5.7. The iMac seems to be lost as to what its default resolution should be. It was always set 1024x768, but that appears really tiny onscreen.
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Sound to me like it has something to do with selecting the Mirroring/(Extended Desktop)Mirroring Off feature...?
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G5 Freezes, display settings and videocard : A clue ?

Hello,
Before you begin to read this ( rather ) long post (sorry for that), i will summarize the final question :
Can there be a relationship between freezes and monitor settings in system preferences ? Are there solutions to improve these settings ? what can be done ?
*My experience* :
After last Tiger updates (9 and 10), my Finder (?) froze very often.
In April, for this reason, I made a Tiger "archive and install" installation.
Nothing really improved.
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in spite of all these un-/installations, freezes were going on with a peak at 10 one day, leaving me convinced that something important in the G5 was totally dead.
One morning, on start, the screen was totally black and the monitor power green led was even off. (I checked warranty for the monitor : 3 years on site until ... November 2007, at least that could be saved.)
Before calling the shop where I had bought this *SyncMaster 213T* display, I wanted to be sure that nothing else was wrong. So, I did some test indicated on the Samsung paper manual (fortunately, there are still some...) i.e. : unplug the monitor from the computer and test it by itself ... I could see exactly the boxes that were indicated as "normal". So the monitor seemed to be "clean".
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The first thing I did, then, was to open the virtual monitor manual, in the trouble shooting session. Namely concerning compatibility between video cards and this monitor. There was something about frequencies unsupported by certain cards. I understood that the higher, the better. But to get the higher, I had to choose a lower Display resolution. In its native resolution (1600 x 1200), the Monitor pref pane proposed only 60 Hz; to get 75 Hz (the maximum frequency indicated in the pref pane) I had to downgrade the resolution from 1600 x 1200 to 1280 x 1024. So did I. After a last freeze, I restarted with PRAM reset. The screen was ok.
And several weeks after, in August, I realized that, since that time, I had encountered NO freeze at all. At that time, I was sure that the "vigorous" PRAM reset had made the wonder.
One day of August, I wanted to change my desktop image with a photo I had just taken. The photo size was wider than the display resolution and I could not see it entirely on the screen. So to get a total view of it, I changed the resolution size to the initial one (1600 x 1200 - freq. 60 Hz). And my photo was entire. Then, I wanted to read something in my newsreader ( Thoth , which I daily use). As a post window was too small to see the entire post and wishing to avoid scrolling, I dragged, as usual, the left lower side to resize this window and I saw the black border line figuring the new window ... but nothing else happened. The window did not resize and suddenly I realized that I was again in a freeze story. :-/
The Apple mouse cursor was moving freely but nothing else happened. And no click was efficient in the display view (but I could hear - as before - its reactive noise inside the G5).
I decided to wait a bit and dit it for about 20 minutes. Nothing went better and I had to shutdown and restart again, tried a "*fsck -s*" but there also, after a beginning of the process, monitor froze. Then, I decided to restart (with alt ) on a "safe" 2nd internal boot disk with a "clean installed" Tiger, which I keep for this kind of problems and from there repaired authorizations and checked the other disk (which appeared to be ok).
Then I restarted normally on my "working" session. Opened iTunes, but as soon as I wanted to click on Mail in the dock : re-freeze.
This time, when I restarted after shutdown (since the "force to quit" was unavailable), the first thing I did was to re-change the Monitor resolution and frequency (to 1280 x 1024 and 75 Hz). And from this time, mid-august, I had only one freeze, which occurred when I wanted to look at a genuine Apple screensaver (but for this, there are about two years that I had to abandon to look at them or at iTunes animations, that I miss ... snif) I just wanted to check if- now -with this display settings change, things were better, but no.
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Many thanks to those who have had the patience to read this and my apologize to those who have the feeling they have lost their time (and also for my approximative English).
*Thank you !*
PS : Since yesterday my SuperDrive, a Pioneer 106 D, (replaced one year ago by Applecare), seems to be definitely dead : a DVD appears like a text generic document in DiskUtility and does even not appear on the desktop although the DVD player opens, but on a "visualisation" window only (the name of the DVD, a video commercial one, which I could look at last week, did not appear in the window header but did in DiskUtility). And just before, another DVD made an horrible noise in the superdrive but nothing mounts on the desk, DVD player opened but I quickly removed the DVD because of the persistent noise (so I didn't open DiscUtility to see what happened). (Problems with this superdrive date from long).
Can there be a link between this last problem and others above ?
Message was edited by: Josy

Thomas Bryant wrote:
Hello! There are a couple of things you can do. One would be to run the Apple Hardware test to see if it comes back with anything. It's probably on one of the install discs if it's not on a separate disk. Second you can open the console (apps>utilities>console) and see if it's throwing a crash log that might help. The monitor and video card resolution could very well be causing the problem which would seem to indicate since a PRAM reset would clear the resolution settings. I think you'll have to find the resolution that works and stick with it. Tom
Hello!
For the AHT unfortunately impossible now with a dead Superdrive ... I had done it quite recently (one month) and all appeared to be ok. I'm thinking of buying an external one but don't know if it could help for this i.e: if an install DVD will run on an external drive.
for the console: I don't well understand your "throwing" a crash log ... Is it "deleting" that you mean? Then which one?
Just after writing this post, I read an interesting article by a developer about Tiger and resolution (an hidden feature) which I thought could be in relationship with my problem (I'm not a developer myself but to help localizing somme apps I had to install the DTools). Also saw in a forum a similar problem concerning a "younger" type of G5 monoproc 1.8, and an ATI RADEON card (younger too) and this resolution 1600 x 1200. It seems that several people (all gamers) with this configuration was meeting the same trouble. Sky punishment ??
Well I think I will stick to pram reset then.
Thank you very much for you answer (and your patience !)

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Ah, so you got it at Fry's eh? Are you by chance located in a western state with water on one side, Nevada on the other, and a few other states piled on top?
Also, are you using any kind of FW or PCIe-based video card with that?
Yes, CA.
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