External display scrolling causing loss of color

I've started running my MacBook Pro with an external display and this strange bug with scrolling has started coming up: After running for a while, a single-app will start to desaturate windows when they scroll. I've seen it happen in the Finder, Safari and Xcode.
Only the part of the window that has scrolled will lose color (the color actually fades as it scrolls) -- anything new scrolling into the window is bright and colorful when it first appears, then it loses color too. This ONLY happens when scrolling.
The display is a Samsung 226BW on my Leopard 10.5.1 running original MacBook Pro. (The original Core Duo MBP.) I'm using DVI-D to hook it up. I'm usually running the external monitor by itself (with the MBP lid closed to deactivate the internal display).
Quitting the app and restarting seems to fix it, but this is a big hassle for obvious reasons (especially when the app is the Finder ;P)
And here I was thanking my lucky stars that I haven't had quick user switching kill my display calibration anymore on Leopard =)
Any ideas would be appreciated!

I'm having a similar problem.
MDD G4, ATI Radeon 9000 Pro connected to a FujitsuSiemens Scaleoview 24".
In Safari for example the screen brightness reduces suddenly whilst scrolling, but literally from one pixel to the next! If I scroll back one pixel it brightens again. A similar thing can happen simply by going from one tab to another.
In the finder it can happen when the dock appears or by simply calling up certain windows. Restarting the finder seems to cure it for a while.
I'm starting to think that it maybe has something to do with Core Image/Quartz Extreme because it only seems to occur in Apple apps (Finder, Mail, Safari, etc).
I've tried all of the Monitor, Energy Saver, etc etc settings but to no avail - similarly, any ideas would be much appreciated!

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Laptops forgetting startup disk after using external displays

Hi All,
Wonder if anyone has had a similar experience or any ideas.
I'm administering approx 650 laptops in an educational environment which were imaged with deploy studio in the summer and we've got a weird quirk going on: Sometimes when students or teachers use an external display that causes their screen resolution to change, the next time they restart their laptop it will not boot up. I can't recreate this at will but it is happening on a semi-regular basis. On the older white macbooks the laptop will display the boot logo but never show the little spinner than indicates that the start-up is progressing. On some of the newer macbooks, the screen changes to some colored lines. In either case, the solution is simply to option-boot the laptop, and manually select the boot drive. After logging in, manually switching the screen resolution once will cause the laptop to boot normally next time. It's an easy workaround but we use an EFI password so right now the tech desk has to handle this. We see the problem on 10.6.4, 10.6.5, and 10.6.6
I had read that settings for both the start-up disk and screen resolution are present in the nvram, so I'm wondering if I'm seeing a situation where connecting an external display is resulting in some corruption of this.
Looking through the logs I'm not seeing anything that looks out of place. Is there a specific section of the logs that anyone would recommend a more in depth look at, and if so what is the command to make that log as verbose as possible temporarily?
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Time Machine does a pseudo-archival backup.
It will until space prohibits it:
1. Backup every hour
2. Backup every day
3. Backup every week
4. Backup every month.
When space prohibits it, it will drop the oldest of each of 1,2,3,4 in sequence to make room for additional backups.
If you stop your Time Machine backing up, and only backup your existing Time Machine archive folders to DVD, or another external hard drive, you can keep older backups of data off your Time Machine backup drive, while giving it room to make more backups. If you clone your data*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Then you can be sure what's on the original is on the destination drive, and keep that as your backup.
Design your backup system to suit your needs. And note, Mac OS X does have an arbitrary 85% full point where it starts to break down and get slower, and have other issues*:
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
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External Display Flickering/Blanking out on Windows 8.1 Boot Camp

OK, so I have a MBP 15" Mid-2012 model running the latest versions of Mavericks and all software and drivers on Windows are up-to-date. I am using my external display through an Active HDMI adapter for Mini DisplayPort/Thunderbolt (one that broadcasts audio as well as video).
So, this adapter and image seems to work perfectly fine on the Mac side, however, when I flip the switch to Windows 8.1, the external display goes haywire and goes blank and flickers with occasional lines and static across the screen. Image comes back every few seconds and then will suddenly lose signal.
I've been reading around the internet and I've seen that this could be a hardware issue in that Intel never put support for Thunderbolt/Mini DisplayPort on their chipsets for Windows, not a driver issue.
How screwed am I? If not so screwed, what steps do I need to take to attain functionality of the external display while running Windows 8.1 through Boot Camp?
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From Tech specs for your machine MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) - Technical Specifications
Intel HD Graphics 4000
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 512MB of GDDR5 memory (15-inch 2.3GHz configuration) or NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory (15-inch 2.6GHz configuration) and automatic graphics switching
Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors
From the Intel downloads, there is a new driver for HD4000...
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProdId=3712
It may be worth a test.
From Nvidia website...
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/77228/en-us
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One suggestion is to try a Display-miniDP cable, instead of a converted HDMI signal, if the monitor will accept a DP connection.
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Thunderbolt digital video output
Native Mini DisplayPort output
DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter (sold separately)
VGA output using Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter (sold separately)
Dual-link DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (sold separately)
HDMI video output
Support for 1080p resolution at up to 60Hz
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Here is where I need some clarification. There is some conflicting info out there and this has me confused.
When running Photoshop cs5 on my external monitor, if I look under the color settings in my working color space, it lists the monitor RGB profile as my laptop display. Does this mean that my external monitor is using the laptop profile? Some say yes, others no… if this is the case is there any way to fix this other that making my external display my “primary display”? I haven’t noticed the external monitor to have any color shifts or inaccurate colors, but I want to be sure Photoshop is correctly choosing the external monitors profile and outputting accurate colors.. Some clarification would be nice..
As I mentioned earlier, I also use lightroom as well. This too is located on my external monitor this should not be an issue either correct? Any help would be great… thanks for taking your time to comment, it is greatly appreciated

The working space has no relation to your display profile. Each display has a profile, and documents are converted to that profile when being drawn.

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I have had a Samsung monitor hooked up to my ~2008 iMac (Intel; see below for more information) for about 3 months and I've had no problems. A week ago, I started getting the "You Need to Restart your Computer" screen due to a kernel panic. I followed Apple's directions for troubleshooting a kernel panic (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742), and I narrowed the problem down to my external Samsung display.
The kernel panic happens every time my external display is connected and the screen saver has been on for about 8-10 minutes. I only get a kernel panic when the external display is connected. See below for my computer information and the kernel panic log. How can I fix this problem?
Hardware Overview:
Model Name:          iMac
Model Identifier:          iMac7,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          4 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          800 MHz
Boot ROM Version:          IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system):          1.20f4
Hardware UUID:          00000000-0000-1000-8000-001B63B25192
Kernel Panic Log:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 706 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          2
Anonymous UUID:                    87195EA1-746B-4068-808E-A8277AFA6070
Sun Mar 4 23:52:33 2012
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001AB0FE): Kernel trap at 0x00d4545d, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000000, CR3: 0x0119b000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x00000036, ECX: 0x044b0d94, EDX: 0x0001a5e0
CR2: 0x00000000, EBP: 0x00108b18, ESI: 0x04794440, EDI: 0x00108ff0
EFL: 0x00010006, EIP: 0x00d4545d, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00520010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x108918 : 0x12b4c6 (0x45f91c 0x10894c 0x13355c 0x0)
0x108968 : 0x1ab0fe (0x469a98 0xd4545d 0xe 0x469248)
0x108a48 : 0x1a1713 (0x108a60 0x108ab4 0x108b18 0xd4545d)
0x108a58 : 0xd4545d (0xe 0x286f0048 0x10 0x10)
0x108b18 : 0xd45fa4 (0x0 0x2f 0x12 0x0)
0x108b58 : 0xd46109 (0x0 0x0 0x0 0x528ce8)
0x108cb8 : 0xd46267 (0x1 0x4 0xd50d7c 0x0)
0x108cf8 : 0xd46085 (0x4 0xd50d7c 0x0 0x0)
0x108d38 : 0xd3a71f (0xd523e8 0xd52ebc 0x0 0x0)
0x108d98 : 0xd33912 (0x43cb410 0x108e58 0x1 0x1)
0x108dd8 : 0xd35ec8 (0x43cb410 0xd5843c 0x108e58 0x40)
0x108e08 : 0xd35efd (0x43cb410 0x8 0x108e58 0x0)
0x108e38 : 0xd32b1b (0x43cb410 0x8 0x108e58 0x49f78b8)
0x108ea8 : 0xd41d66 (0x43cb410 0xd568b4 0x10c60 0x6)
0x108ed8 : 0xd1a2b3 (0x4bb5954 0x3de13c50 0xd 0xd568b4)
0x108f08 : 0x6aacbd (0x4794440 0x36 0x23eff000 0x0)
          Backtrace continues...
      Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.apple.kext.ATY_Hypoprion(5.4.8)@0xce5000->0xd5ffff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.7.3)@0x6a0000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x5ce000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.7.3)@0x683000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.2.0)@0x627000
         com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.7.3)@0x6a0000->0x6adfff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x5ce000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.7.3)@0x683000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
9L31a
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac7,1 (Mac-F4238CC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 1421066020480
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport          2.4.0 - last unloaded 125555815961
loaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport          2.4.0 - last loaded 18399940146
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAPlatformDriver          1.7.1a2
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager          2.1.8f2
com.apple.filesystems.autofs          2.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient          2.7.5
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver          1.7.1a2
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA          1.7.1a2
com.apple.kext.ATY_Hypoprion          5.4.8
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor          1.9d0
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X          6.0.3
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl          2.8.15
com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver          1.0.0d28
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController          1.7.1a2
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP          1.7.7
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver          1.0.6
com.apple.ATIRadeonX2000          5.4.8
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController          113
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com.apple.driver.iTunesPhoneDriver          1.0
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Solution: The GPU heat sink temperature sensor was faulty. I couldn't figure out what part number the temperature sensor was, so I just ordered a new GPU heat sink off e-bay for $12. The heat sink assembly contains the temperature sensor. I installed the heat sink (including removing/applying thermal paste), and voila! The kernel panics are gone. The faulty heat sink temp sensor was causing the temp. to read hotter than it actually was, so when it read too hot (GPU diode ~120 Celsius), I got a kernel panic.
After I installed the new heat sink (with new GPU heatsink temp. sensor), the GPU temperatures read normal, and the Apple Hardware Test showed no problems (before it was giving an error code of 4SNS/1/40000000:TG0H).
Ahh, the sweet satisfaction of fixing this problem myself for $12 without ever having to deal with Apple.

Suddanly Mbp display has got inverted colors with black on white settings. in universal access. When I connect external display(tv), TV display is normal. I reinstalled os x lion. But it did not help.

Suddanly Mbp display has got inverted colors with black on white settings. in universal access. When I connect external display(tv), TV display is normal. I reinstalled os x lion. But it did not help. I had this problem before but it solved after reinstalling os x lion.
Did you have this problem? What should I do?

Sorry, its not an external display. I changed out THE display in my imac. When I hooked up my wife's display it was photo negative and the imac was color. I changed the Universal Settings and the external display went to color and the imac went to photo negative.

New External Display Color Syncing

So I got a refurbished Samsung SyncMaster 932GW for my Late 2006 MacBook to use as a semi-permanent external display. Obviously I'd like it and the built-in screen to look the same, so I set both to use the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 (because neither profile works with the other). For comparison purposes I'm using the test pattern here: http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/barsb.html. Both displays are at full brightness (and contrast on the 932GW) and I've turned off the Dynamic Contrast, MagicColor, and other gewgaws on the 932GW.
On the SyncMaster the test pattern looks...right. The white looks as pure as I can tell, and the other colors are what I remember them to be.
But on the Color LCD, it looks crappy. The interface (windows, icons, etc) have a strong bluish cast, and the display overall (esp. the test image) has an overall anemic quality. This might just be due to comparison, but it's still distracting.
Am I going about this whole thing the right way? Is there some other standard (image or profile) I should be using? Or is it an entirely hopeless endeavour to get these two displays to agree?

What I gather from reading magazines and browsing various forums is that most monitors do not quite have the correct colors out of the box, shift over time, and need to be calibrated periodically. Calibration can be software based, using your eyes to calibrate (such as with the color calibration tools provided with OSX), or can use calibration devices, such as HUEY or Colorvision's Spyder 3. Calibration devices actually read your screen colors and tonal settings and adjust them to the standards you select. I've found Huey to be useless on LCDs. Using Spyder 3 has resulted in better colors on my MacBook Pro screen, but I have been unable to get Spyder 3 Elite to match the laptop screen and external monitor colors (Wacom 21ux), even though it is specifically intended to match colors across a numbe of monitors. Would like to hear what progress you make.

MacBook Pro's Color LCD "shifts" when connected to external display?

I have a 2010 MacBook Pro with the hi-res anti-glare screen. I just noticed that the internal color LCD "shifts" its colors when I connect it to an external display (a Dell 2408 WFP). If I disconnect the external display, the colors internal color LCD go back to "normal".
I have two images to show what I mean:
This is what it looks like with the external display disconnected i.e. the MacBook Pro on its own: <http://www.flickr.com/photos/vazexqi/4558641163/sizes/l/>
This is what it looks like with the external display connected: <http://www.flickr.com/photos/vazexqi/4559271260/sizes/l/>
The wallpaper is from pixelgirlpresents.com. I didn't notice this problem before with my older 2006 Core Duo MacBook Pro (OS X 10.5.7).
My guess is that with the external display connected, somehow the color LCD decides to use the external display's profile as well (instead of its own).
Any ideas on why this is happening? And, more importantly, any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks.
Nick
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@Stefan: Thanks for the tip. I tried it but unfortunately it didn't solve the issue. The color is still off.
Incidentally, just out of curiosity, I tried these two things:
1) I tried the "Mirror Displays" option in the Displays Preference Pane. With this option enabled, both displays actually displayed the right colors (right with respect to how each display is calibrated).
2) I opened the same desktop wallpaper in Preview. Whenever I drag the Preview window so that it spans/crosses both displays (external and Color LCD), there is a light flicker in the wallpaper in the Preview Window. For that brief moment, I can see that the color is right before it changes to the shifted color on the Color LCD.
I found a possibly related thread on a different forum <http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=37841>. That doesn't seem to help when both displays are connected.
Now, I am just wondering if this is considered normal - wonky color shifts between the desktop/different windows happen when you have two displays connected....
Nick
PS: Note that I am not a graphics designer so my definition of right/wrong is just based on my experience looking at the wallpaper and remembering what it should look like on each display by itself.

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