HT2810 apple cinema display sometimes needs to be unplugged and plugged back in multiple times to turn on  any ideas for a fix?

apple cinema display will not allays start
i need to plug and unplug multiple times for ti to start.
any thoughts ideas would be helpful thanks

Okay, Mr. Easthills, you have an imac, but yet you mention apple cinema display....Hmmm, curious. you could try zapping the PRAM, hold down command (apple?), Option+P+R keys while rebooting mac. Hold down for 3 chimes, then let go and boot normally. I have this problem too, and I have a 20" widescreen apple cinema display(DVI connector--did I just date myself or what?),anyways, it's behaving itself now okay, but it tended to go dark right in the middle of whatever I was doing, and only unplugging the power cord to the display, and replugging in it would fix it for a while. sometimes it would happen again, and again the same solution.  As to why it happens now with Yosemite, I don't know .  This dear old monitor has lasted me about 8 years and it's still going just fine.. not state of the art anymore, though...
oh well, good luck to you
John B

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