More weird display problems

Hi!
Booting up recently everything looked fine for the first few seconds, but as the login window was about to show up, I only got a few colored pixels outlining the Apple logo, and sometimes a large white box where the cursor should be.
At the same time, Running BootCamp my Vista started experiencing a problem with the Nvidia display driver, where the screen freezes and then Vista raports that the system has successfully recovered from a driver problem.
Neither Apples own hardware diagnostic tests at startup, nor Disk Utility when I run the 24" in TDM, reports anything wrong. I did not install any new software or hardware prior to the problems started.

You'll need to tell us more about the setup and function, but it sounds like you need to download and use the standalone installer.
See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1338
+*Using standalone installers from Apple Support Downloads*+
+Sometimes a standalone installer may be more useful than the automatic Software Update feature. Examples include when you:+
+Anticipate needing the file again later.+
+Need to install on multiple computers and need a portable file.+ ⬅ ⬅ ⬅
+Have a faster Internet connection available to you at another computer.+
+Have no Internet connection on a computer that needs the update.+
Note: there are two 10.5.7 standalone updates (standard and combo) the larger combo update is recommend if you are having any problems or have reinstalled an earlier 10.5 version from your install disk.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1057comboupdate .html

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Weird display problem with iMac 24"

Hi guys, I have a very weird problem with my 24" iMac. For some reason it seems that after approx. 10 minutes using the Mac, whenever I keep a window on top of another window and then I minimize it, it keeps there like a ghost for another 5-10 seconds until it fades away slowly slowly.
Sometimes it's hard to see it however it's very evident when using a white window (such as Safari) on a dark background (not black).
I'm attaching an image split into 2 parts, the 2nd part is shot exactly after I minimised the browser. It clearly shows a faded ghost image on the grey Photoshop canvas.
Here's the pic:
http://www.neilazzopardi.com/imac.jpg
Has anyone ever experienced a problem similar to mine? or am I getting paranoid?
By the way, I bought this Mac, 5 months ago and I don't know whether this problem has been there from the beginning but I only noticed recently while cropping in Photoshop and still seeing the parts I removed away very faded.

den.thed it's not that I took it the wrong way or anything but shouldn't I be doing whatever I like with my iMac?
For the record that is a dark grey Photoshop canvas, which just happens to show the problem much more evidently.
The problem is that it happens on any background (even desktop) with any window, even Adium etc. Their ghost just stays there for a while... I use the iMac for design purposes and it's very annoying especially when cropping a picture and what I just cut out stays there very faded...

Weird display problem in Safari

I've looked around for other topics on this and haven't found any yet, and to my disbelief, the folks at the local Apple store didn't have an answer for me as well. So here's to hoping to that someone here might have a suggestion.
I have two macs, a black macbook and a white imac - both are completely up to date. When I navigate to my website (www.nimbleslick.com) I am unable to see the dark grey boxes that surround the text on all of the pages within the site. I have tried calibrating the color on both computers, a million settings, and nothing seems to solve this problem. I have been unable to find another machine that displays the site as it does on my computers. While a minor problem, this is extremely frustrating and I can't help but wonder what else I may not be seeing when surfing the web. If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate it!
Thank you!
B

I can see the boxes, and I've checked with both Safari 3.1.2 and Safari 4.0.2. There must be something different about one of your Macs, even if you don't know what it is.
If these systems are identical in every other way and you have a full backup of each, I would suggest restoring the errant Mac with the backup from the Mac that seems to work the way you want and then check to see if the problem remains.

Weird event display problem in week view

Hi. I'm getting a weird display problem in week view. First time this has ever happened.
Some events appear to be missing, but when i double click on where I know the event is supposed to be, a new event is created (as excepted), and the missing events suddenly appear. When i move forward or back by a week, and then return to the week in question, the missing events are gone again. But, I can see the missing events in day view or month view.
Any ideas?

Dean,
Next, try reinstalling the Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update (Combo).
If that is unsuccessful:
1. Use iCal>Export...>for each one of your individual calendars.
2. Delete all but one of your calendars.
3. Create a calendar and name it "Test."
4. Delete the calendar which remained after step #2.
5. Quit iCal.
6. Remove the iCal plist, and drag the iCal plist file to your Desktop.
7. Log out/in or restart.
8. Restart iCal and use iCal>File>Import...for each one of the calendars that you exported in step #1.
9. Delete the "Test" calendar, and any "Home/Work" calendar which was automatically created when you opened iCal in step #8.
;~)

Weird Finder display problem

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Hi, sorry that I don't know how to post image directly, so you have to click the link to go to the picasa site to see the screen captures.
Am having weird display problem with my Snow Leopard 10.6.1 on Macbook Pro 4,1. It's only in Finder item so far, things are randomly mis-displayed, or wiped out completely. If you see my screen shots you will have a clear idea.
Is this a know problem? I don't even know how to search this problem on the web, or in this forum. I never seen such problem on my iMac with Leopard 10.5.7.
Any solutions will be appreciated. Of course, right now restart seems to be the only solution I have.

he general approach at this time is to ask if you've checked for any problematic fonts (all languages) with Apple's Font Book (look in the Applications folder). Find and remove all duplicates also.
Start there to be sure all fonts that are in play come out with a clean bill of health.
Also, don't hesisate to perform wholesale deletion of old and/or little used fonts - be skeptical of anything that has come from Office 2008, including those related to an Equation Editor installation.

Odd Display Problems - Solved (& More...)

Earlier today I picked up the weird display problem shown in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1524985&tstart=30
I went ahead and reinstalled the Leopard Graphics Update and reset the PRAM. Problems seemed to go away. But then I ended up with an even weirder white-on-black display that looked a lot like an xray. So reset the PRAM again. No fix. Then restarted in SAFE mode - all OK, so probably not hardware. Then ran Disk Utility from the Leopard System CD. No probs revealed. Problem (white-on-black) came back on restart. Searched Discussion base and found reference to wrong toggle set in Universal Access System Preference. This was the white-on-black problem and toggling to black-on-white solved it.
Here's the part I don't understand (but like): the machine is much faster than it was. Safari pages load with great speed, apps open faster, etc. It may have been the series of restarts that cleared something, but somewhere in this troubleshooting string things overall got a lot better. Beats me, but like it... YMMV.

I just have some general thoughts. Does it look correct if you connect it to a different monitor? (to find out if the TV / TV connection is the problem) Did you install something in your house that could affect the signal that is being transmitted through the wire? (I highly doubt it) Are you SURE you didn't install / update / change any settings before it stopped working?
The problem you described reminds me a little of the glitchy GTK problems I was having with my Radeon. My problem ended up being related to the open source driver and KMS. Is there another driver or video card you could try? Is your video card getting too hot?

Wierd lines on my display and frequent lock-ups w/ and w/o display problems

When booting I sometimes get weird lines and blocks on my display (the GRAY Apple screen) and then it hangs, other times the computer will boot and run fine for 20-30 minutes and then the display goes wonkers with blocks and lines and the computer does not respond. The only way I can get it to boot is to reset the PRAM by letting it CHIME 3x and then occasionally it will boot without issue and run, while other times I still get the blocks and lines on the display.
When I am able to get it to recover and re-boot after the lock-up and display problems and occasionally the box in the middle asking me to re-boot similar to a kernel panic the OPS gives me the option to REPORT the error and here is the error for others who would know more...
Thank you in advance,
Darren
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 104960 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 5
Anonymous UUID: 7D1AEF43-7E19-4F58-A1E0-48FA992A2814
Wed Nov 18 15:49:50 2009
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x9cdb10): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00009410: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xd2000000, BAR0 0xd2000000 0x5d3e2000 0x084700a2, D0, P1/4
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x5c99b7d8 : 0x21b2bd (0x5cf868 0x5c99b80c 0x223719 0x0)
0x5c99b828 : 0x9cdb10 (0xbb7fec 0xc209c0 0xbc3660 0x0)
0x5c99b8c8 : 0x147690d (0x8b5ac04 0x7edf004 0x9410 0xabd962)
0x5c99b908 : 0x1534e6a (0x7edf004 0x9410 0x5c99b968 0x9)
0x5c99b948 : 0xb51ca5 (0x7edf004 0x91ed004 0x0 0x0)
0x5c99b968 : 0xac155b (0x91ed004 0x5c99baa4 0x0 0x0)
0x5c99b9b8 : 0x145f290 (0x7edf004 0x3d0900 0x5c99baa4 0x0)
0x5c99bad8 : 0xab2821 (0x7edf004 0x91cf004 0x815200c 0x200)
0x5c99bb18 : 0xb1f172 (0x7edf004 0x91cf004 0xeb9bcc0 0xeb9bc04)
0x5c99bbc8 : 0xb202db (0x7edf004 0x91f0404 0x0 0x0)
0x5c99bc58 : 0x14bb7a3 (0x7edf004 0x91f0404 0x9 0x2)
0x5c99bd68 : 0x14ed407 (0x7edf004 0x91cf404 0x0 0x0)
0x5c99be98 : 0xad3934 (0x7edf004 0x91ca404 0x0 0x0)
0x5c99bec8 : 0x9d61fb (0x7edf004 0x91ca404 0x0 0x0)
0x5c99bf08 : 0x5491b5 (0x0 0x9499680 0x1 0x29c50a)
0x5c99bf58 : 0x5481e6 (0x9499680 0x1 0x5c99bf88 0x547d9d)
0x5c99bf88 : 0x548640 (0x8abaf00 0x7e9ecc0 0xe780850c 0x2a6e5f)
0x5c99bfc8 : 0x29d68c (0x8abaf00 0x0 0x10 0x88bbfc4)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(6.0.6)@0x136b000->0x17f1fff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.0.6)@0x96f000
com.apple.NVDAResman(6.0.6)@0x96f000->0xc21fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x932000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.0)@0x961000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.0)@0x943000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10C540
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 3788331456483
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 2.0 (addr 0xf02000, size 0x12288) - last unloaded 94521475551
loaded kexts:
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp 2.2.2
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt 2.2.2
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB 2.2.2
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv 2.2.2
com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring 5.0
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com.apple.filesystems.ntfs 3.1
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Model: MacBookPro3,1, BootROM MBP31.0070.B07, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.2 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.16f11
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, PCIe, 128 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x168C, 0x87), Atheros 5416: 2.0.19.4
Bluetooth: Version 2.2.4f3, 2 service, 0 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
PCI Card: pci168c,24, sppci_othernetwork, PCI Slot 5
Serial ATA Device: ST9320421ASG, 298.09 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-857E
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0xfd400000
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x021a, 0x5d200000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8205, 0x1a100000
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S.U.
Is there a kb article or something that would illuminate what to look for in these logs, or is it a matter of learning by osmosis?
Both. I am not skilled in reading logs. It is a very technical and time consuming task for the uninitiated (me!) In scanning a log I look for the backtrace and loading dependencies. The first item in the backtrace is usually the roadblock.
Beyond that you can look at the Technical Note TN2063: Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics
Should make for good bedtime reading. Puts you right to sleep.
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Video Display Problems with Flex Builder 2

I am currently trying out the Flex Builder 30-day trial and
have been having problems running the software.
System info:
FB 2.0.1
Dell Latittude D820 running WinXP
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M Video Card
When I first installed it, my display turned to garbage and I
had to reboot my machine to get it to a usable state. Someone
suggested changing my display properties and see if it helped. When
I tried 768X1024 with 8-bit color it worked. Once I installed it, I
changed them back to 1920X1200 32-bit. Everything seemed to work
fine until I started getting into some more complicated tutorials.
My display crashed and looked similar to what I saw before. I
updated to the latest NVIDIA driver from Dell. No help. I then
tried the Windows Troubleshooting. When I turned my hardware
acceleration to None, it started working again. There are some
weird display issues with menu buttons and I can't launch my Nvdia
software.
Is there a better solution to this? Has anyone had this
problem? I'm not so sure I'll purchase the software with this many
problems.
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Boys n Girls
I am Currently restoring my Power Book after a significant meltdown.
Thanks for posting I too saw the shearing effect but shrugged it off thinking oh well I'll just reboot!
If you are seeing this Buy a fire wire drive NOW and Back-up.
I suspect the Video update changed a low level feature in the power management routines and this resulted in my Power book cooking itself.
I've got a 12mth old Hitachi 7200 PATA drive in my Power Book after the Apple Drive cooked itself soem tim back and I have now got to back-up and restore my whole system. Luckiliy I have plenty of Big fast firewire drives around so I'm imaging the corrupt drive and going to run the Hitachi tool on it via a WINDOZE Thinkpad. Then a combination of clean install of 10.5.x and a migration assisted restore should do it.
I'm really not very happy though! My Time machine image did not restore and the disk repair did not work. I have a corrupted asl.DB ( the log file for Apple System Logs) and the mac won't boot from its internal drive.
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I suggest If you have a G4 Power Book you resist the temptation to install the video update.
Regards

WordPress page, weird display in Firefox-Mac

Hello,
My client has a WordPress blog, and he tells me that when he
view his latest
post in Firefox/Mac, he sees a "milky white overlay" on top
of the page, and
that this "overlay" prevents him from being able to click
anywhere where it
is.
He says "It does not seem to affect Firefox on Linux nor
Safari on Mac."
Here's the blog, and it's the current post where he sees the
weird display:
http://blog.miraverse.com/
Here's a screenshot (reduced slightly) showing the "white
overlay":
http://ayersvirtual.com/temp/firefox-overlay2.jpg
I don't see this in any browser on any of my PCs.
Does anyone see that problem in your browser? (Would
appreciate any
Firefox/Mac checks in particular.)
Does anyone have a clue what might be causing it??
Thanks very much in advance for any help.
Patty Ayers | www.WebDevBiz.com
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"Mad Dog" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Rebooting. The duct tape of computers.
>
>
>
> P@tty Ayers ~ACE wrote:
>> Thanks for asking. No luck in tracking down the
problem. But my
>> client (who is very tech-savvy, as much as many of
us) reported that
>> with one more re-boot, the problem disappeared.
>>
>> So it's a mystery. I appreciate your help!
>>
>> --
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>> "Mad Dog" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Any luck tracking down the problem?
>>>
>>>
>>> P@tty Ayers ~ACE wrote:
>>>> Thanks very much, MD. I'm going to look into
that right now. Much
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> Free Articles on the Business of Web
Development
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Estimate Worksheet
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>>>> "Mad Dog"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> Patty--
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see the overlay using FF3 on
WinXP-Pro SP3. But I'd suspect
>>>>> the "More" button plug-in(or whatever is
doing that). Most people
>>>>> probably aren't even seeing the section
that's causing the problem,
>>>>> which seems to be happening after they
click "For higher-resolution
>>>>> renderings, click on the following
links: (more.)". I'd look at the
>>>>> plug-in for that or settings for that.
It almost looks like a
>>>>> Lightbox or Ajax type overlay that
shouldn't be showing up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not a lot of help, but maybe it's in the
right direction.
>>>>>
>>>>> MD
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> P@tty Ayers ~ACE wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My client has a WordPress blog, and
he tells me that when he view
>>>>>> his latest post in Firefox/Mac, he
sees a "milky white overlay" on
>>>>>> top of the page, and that this
"overlay" prevents him from being
>>>>>> able to click anywhere where it is.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He says "It does not seem to affect
Firefox on Linux nor Safari on
>>>>>> Mac."
>>>>>> Here's the blog, and it's the
current post where he sees the weird
>>>>>> display:
http://blog.miraverse.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's a screenshot (reduced
slightly) showing the "white
>>>>>> overlay":
http://ayersvirtual.com/temp/firefox-overlay2.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't see this in any browser on
any of my PCs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone see that problem in your
browser? (Would appreciate
>>>>>> any Firefox/Mac checks in
particular.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone have a clue what might
be causing it??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks very much in advance for any
help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Patty Ayers | www.WebDevBiz.com
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Development
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>
>

Ideapad u300 screen not working - covered with some weird displays

A few days when I turned on my laptop, I could not see the log in box since the screen was mostly covered by some weird displays. I can only see the down right corner of the screen where I can choose to shut down or restart. But I can see the whole screen normally if I connect the laptop with a external screen, like a TV screen with HDMI cable. Does it mean that the laptop screen is broken and I need to get a replacement?

Pharaoh wrote:
Hi there,So I've had my laptop for a while now and the touch screen stopped working a long time ago as well. I figured that I would wait until maybe someone posted a solution somewhere but there hasn't been any posts about it (that I could find) and it's been a really long time so I figured I would ask. So here's the problem. Touch screen stopped working. No idea why. Quite suddenly the touch screen decided to no longer work. I checked the driver and the computer says its functioning properly. I tried to see if there was some kind of update that I should download, and my efforts yet again were in vain. Alas, I figured the more knowledgable might be able to guide me in the right direction so....any ideas? With thanks,MattHave you tried restoring to factory condition through the use of OKR?

My original post, locked by this forum. Display problem related

Hi G5 Gurus,
The display problem first, we all know when screen savers display, a click on the mouse will bring you back to the active desktop, this was how it worked., but now, sometimes a click cause the G5 to sleep!
As for the sleep, I dare not to put it to sleep these days, because I am afriad it may cause a fire by over heating. Sometmes, actually four times in the past few months, my G5 could wake up by itself, followed by a extrem high speed running of the cooling fan, it sounded like a hair dryer running in the same room. Sometimes the sreen could light up, just like real wake up, sometimes, it was black. No clicks the mouse or keyboeard could bring it back to normal, I had to press and hold the power button to turn it off.
This crazy problem happened for the first time last summer, a dead hard disk was the cost. Apple replaced it, but failed to detect the cooling or power or display problem. I was given one month extended free service, but right after its end, the problem was back and happened even more often.
Please let me know if any of you had the same problem and please advise what to do.
100s Gs of thanks.
Songyan
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
la teller
Posts: 1
From: Los Angeles
Registered: Jan 10, 2007
Re: What's the problem? Display? Power supply? Cooling? My G5's gone mad
Posted: Jan 10, 2007 2:21 PM in response to: Bad luck G5
I have the EXACT same problem. In fact, I could not have described it better myself. What gives? I brought it in to the "genius" bar and they repolaced the power supply free of charge but the problem is still there. I noticed they ordered a new logic board but did not end up replacing it after all. Did you have yours replaced and did it work? Is this a known issue?
imac G5 17 inch Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Bad luck G5
Posts: 8
From: UK
Registered: Jan 10, 2007
Re: What's the problem? Display? Power supply? Cooling? My G5's gone mad
Posted: Jan 11, 2007 1:20 PM in response to: la teller
Hi La teller,
Thank you for your reply. The 'genius' here in London only replace the dead hard disk, which I belive was a victim of this problem. I was told they couldn't find anything wrong with the power supply or the cooling system.
Now at lest I know I am not the only bad luck guy. Let's wait and see if others are having the same problem. I am not sure if this is a known issue to Apple, even if it is, it may take years before they can offer a recall or free repaire. I noticed that some G5s have already been suffering from power problems and a free repaire was offered.
Thank you again and hope Apple can take our concerns into their consideration soon.
Songyan
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
stopha6
Posts: 1
From: US
Registered: Jan 12, 2007
Re: What's the problem? Display? Power supply? Cooling? My G5's gone mad
Posted: Jan 12, 2007 7:43 AM in response to: Bad luck G5
Hello,
I'm also having this problem (fan running, won't come out of sleep), just spoke with an apple care rep. He confirmed my suspition that it was software, not hardware as I have just had the logic board and power supply replaced.
His suggestions were to:
1. Run disk repair from the startup CD
try running OS X from a firewire drive and see if the same behavior happens or
perform and archive and install.
When the fan starts to run like that it means the OS is not communicating with the hardware properly. The OS could be somewhat corrupt if you were having hardware issues beforehand, hence the need for a reinstall. I will be performing an archive and install after the disk repair, I'll let you know if it fixes the problem!
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Bad luck G5
Posts: 8
From: UK
Registered: Jan 10, 2007
Re: What's the problem? Display? Power supply? Cooling? My G5's gone mad
Posted: Jan 14, 2007 12:52 PM in response to: stopha6
Hi Stopha6,
Thank you for your message. I never imagined it could be a software issue, cos it looked so hardware.
Please keep me updated with your progress.
By the way, as I said in my old posts, a hard disk went dead when this happened for the very first time, how do you read this?
Thank you.
Songyan
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Bad luck G5
Posts: 8
From: UK
Registered: Jan 10, 2007
Re: What's the problem? Display? Power supply? Cooling? My G5's gone mad
Posted: Jan 15, 2007 6:58 AM in response to: stopha6
Hi Stopha6,
After reading your reply again, I realized that the system had already been reinstalled. As I said when it happened for the first time, the hard disk died with it, which was replaced, of course with a new OS X, but the same problem is still happening. May this suggest that it is not just a software problem? Thank you. Songyan
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
AG-Nate
Posts: 5
From: Pismo Beach,CA
Registered: Aug 26, 2006
Re: What's the problem? Display? Power supply? Cooling? My G5's gone mad
Posted: Jan 14, 2007 3:38 PM in response to: Bad luck G5
The Fans going at full is only because you have an application that is using a lot of cpu power and therefore causing the imac to heat up so it turns the fans on. The screen-saver and sleep problem you describe sounds like something that may just happen on accident. But this sounds mostly like a software problem. Try making sure to always quit all non-apple products and see if anything changes.
eMac, iMacG5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 800mhz 1gig ram, 2ghz 2gigs of ram
Bad luck G5
Posts: 8
From: UK
Registered: Jan 10, 2007
Re: What's the problem? Display? Power supply? Cooling? My G5's gone mad
Posted: Jan 15, 2007 6:50 AM in response to: AG-Nate
Thank you, Ag-Nate. I will try as you adivised but I con't think the fans were activeted my intensive CPU using. In most of the cases, the problems happened when the Mac was sleeping, when the minimum CPU were being used.
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Timothy Klein
Posts: 15
From: Denver, CO, USA
Registered: Dec 6, 2004
Re: What's the problem? Display? Power supply? Cooling? My G5's gone mad
Posted: Jan 31, 2007 1:02 PM in response to: AG-Nate
"The Fans going at full is only because you have an application that is using a lot of cpu power and therefore causing the imac to heat up so it turns the fans on."
That's only partly right. A hard-working process will make the fans run at high speed, of course.
But, the OS is in touch with the firmware of the iMac, telling it how to run the fans, based upon information the OS X kernel is getting about the state of the hardware.
If the firmware loses touch with the OS for some reason, and is not getting instructions on how to run the fan, it will default to running them at full blast, to be on the safe side (and this "full blast" fan mode is way louder than anything you'll generally experience during normal usage, I know from experience).
So it may not be so simple as a hard-working cpu process kicking the fans on.
iMac G5 17" 1.6 GHz Rev. A Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1 GB Ram
Kensall
Posts: 2
From: London, England
Registered: Feb 2, 2007
Re: What's the problem? Display? Power supply? Cooling? My G5's gone mad
Posted: Feb 2, 2007 9:05 AM in response to: Timothy Klein
Hi I have a 20" G5 imac it's about 18 months old and I am having the same problem, It freezes and the fan runs really loud. It's nothing to do with software as my I.T. guy has done a complete re-install. All of our admin people have imacs of differring ages and the flat panels are all OK but every one of the G5s has had a booting problem. Some fell into the recall for replacement logic boards but the one I have at home is the newest and doesn't. I'm waiting for my apple reseller to get back to me, but it looks like it's the logic board and as none of the serial numbers fall into the recall, I'm expecting a big bill. I'm really disappointed as I've been a professional apple user for over 15 years and have grown to expect a certain amount of honesty and integrity from them. Looking at all of the discussion boards and the amount of people complaining of the same problem the logic boards are defective and apple should be replacing these free of charge.
i mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
a brody
Posts: 15,170
From: Silver Spring, Maryland. Don't forget to backup your data!
Registered: Dec 23, 2000
Re: What's the problem? Display? Power supply? Cooling? My G5's gone mad
Posted: Feb 2, 2007 10:27 AM in response to: Kensall
Kensall,
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
As in the other thread I wrote:
Being from England, you may find the repair program under these pages:
http://www.apple.com/uk/support/imac/repairextensionprogram/
http://www.apple.com/uk/support/imac/powersupply/repairextension/
Check both of them as they refer to different models.
If neither of yours is under the program, please start a new topic thread so someone can help you.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=881
First off, you'll get a wider audience who may be able to solve your problem. Secondly, responses to you won't confuse the original poster with solutions that don't apply to them. And thirdly, you'll know for certain whether or not a response applies to you.
iMac C2D 2.17/20 inch/iMac G5 1.8 1st gen/iMac G4 800 Mac OS 9 Mac OS X (10.4.8) EyeTV 200, Canon PS A530 , Epson P-R220, iSight, Airport Extreme, 5th Gen iPod

I am having a very similar problem. My G5 imac has already had the logic board replaced from the leaking capacitor problem. 8 mos. later the power supply was replaced under the second recall program when it failed to start up.
It had been working now for almost a year, when about 3 mos. ago I started to experience the sudden dimming effect - if the display was untouched the screen would dim about 30% similar to a laptop in energy save mode. I checked and none of these types of options were set in the pref panes. At the same time I would have the iMac go to sleep after a while from non-use, and then when I tried to wake it it would stir for a few seconds and then go right back to sleep. It took 2-3 attempts to wake it up.
Then last week, as I tried to wake it, it just shut down instead completely. I had to hold the power button down to recycle it to get it to come back to life (3 times).
Today was it - I found what I thought was a sleeping iMac, but it will not power up at all. I opened the back cover and the power supply is working, but I cannot get the board to energize, I reset the PMU, but the #2 LED won't even blink. It is completely dead.
Basically every time I used this computer I held my breath that it would not work. After 2 recalls I still only get 9 mos. out of it? Apple is really starting to show it is like the "big" computer makers, the quality is going right down the tubes.
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Why is netflix having display problems on my macbook pro... HDCP compliance?

Watching Netflix and all of a sudden it says "Display Problems" Make sure your monitor is HDCP Compliant and is not setup for mirror airplay??

The issue is from Safari defaulting to HTML5 vs using Silverlight like it did in Mavericks.
So the options are, if you want to use Safari goto your Netflix account, playback preferences and turn off HTML5. This will revert to Silverlight and will AirPlay fine*in Safari.
If you want to use HTML5, just leave the setting for HTML5 on in Netflix and use Chrome, Firefox, etc.
You can't currently have both Safari and HTML5 Netflix when using AirPlay. You'd think Safari would be a little bit more powerful with Apples stances on browser extensions.

Windows 7 64 bit on iMac display problems and instability

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I get intermittent but often display problems in windows 7. I get areas of the screen covered in little yellow dots or blue squares (never red artefacts.) This will happen at random areas of the screen, inside an open window, around borders of windows and so on. Most often the screen will go black and come back with a message in the bottom right corner of the screen saying 'Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered' with the sub message saying 'display driver ATI radeon family stopped....etc'. Sometimes I lose the screen wallpaper. Once I've had the system just shut down, once I've had Photoshop seize up and I had to do a cold reboot. Could this be an overheating problem or resolution too high problem or driver problem? Windows 7 tells me my drivers are up to date. I tried installing the drivers for the card from ATI's website which made no difference
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Sorry, that thread got moved for edit and as a user tip... which I didn't want and won't be doing....
Here is the post:
A tip and workaround for how to get ATI mobility/laptop drivers so that Windows no longer thinks the ATI is a desktop card:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11286987
Summary (my own edit steps):
1. Install Boot Camp 3.0 and upgrade to 3.1
2. Uninstall graphic drivers and run Driver Sweeper
http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/
instead of:
removing the crashing driver by going into windows 7 setup via its install cd and deleting the ati driver manaully
3. Install ATI Mobility (link)
4. Uninstall ATI (Programs control panel?) Device Manager (rollback; uninstall?)
5. Device Nanager: update driver and BROWSE BACK to 8.681 (the original apple driver that was causing freezes and purple artifacts) - navigate to /Apple/Drivers/ATI
(Apple uses) a 4850 card in the iMac, its modified a bit for apple. Enough that desktop drivers don't work, and modded-for-laptop desktop drivers don't work either.
Now the upshot of using modified drivers is that it FORCES the catalyst control panel to be installed, meaning you get a few more options to mess around with the card.
I couldn't use the original apple drive, it locks up, the newer one had banding, the newer radeon drivers direct form ATI wouldn't work until they were modded and then they cause black screens.
SO the solution, as obscure as it was, was to download ACTUAL mobility Radeon drivers - version 10.3 still, but made for laptops.
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
THESE drivers I was able to install - and here is where things changed.
THIS driver changed they way windows saw the video card in device manager.
As I mentioned before, its NOT a desktop card, its a modified laptop card, but installing mac drivers makes windows THINK its a full desktop card, and running the original 8.681 driver crashed it.
Once installed 10.3 LAPTOP driver it now appeared in device manager as a MOBILITY card.
+These Steps "should" work:+
delete ATI driver manually
reinstall apple driver after that and see if that works,
otherwise try the steps above
(mod drivers, remove via windows recovery off setup disk, install laptop drivers, reinstall apple driver over it)

2x iMac G5: Both Logic Board and Display Problems, Warrenty?

Hello,
Thank you for looking at this topic.
I am Jeroen from The Netherlands and proud owner of several Mac Mini's, iMac's and Macbook's. I have 2times the iMac G5, a beautiful machine, but both not working since 2 months.
I have two times the iMac G5 with iSight, both have logic board and display problems.
The first iMac doenst start at all, black screen, i hear the chime, but nothing happening. After a minute i see one horizantal white stripe but nothing happens.
The second iMac has weird horizantal stripes also, but the computer starts. It gives a finder and questionmark icon. After a while the fans go crazy.
Both these symptons are widely known on the internet. I would like to get this fixed, but prices are crazy. And because this is a common issue I would expect to get this fixed for no costs. I have contacted several Apple resellers but they shown me high prices and bad services. On these forums I've saw people in the USA who get this fixed free of charge.
Does anyone has any advice for me? I'll call apple USA this morning.
Thankyou for ur time.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I know of no repair extension authorization which provides for the repair of either computer you describe beyond its original 12 month period of coverage. If either machine is covered by a warranty extension program provided by AppleCare, then the parts, labor or both required to replace the defective components may be offered at no charge to you. Final determination of eligibility is made at the part level by authorized Apple service providers or dealers and by the specific serial number of the machine submitted for service.
Absent a warranty extension, however, it is quite likely that you will have to pay for the repairs is you elect to have them performed.

Display problem in macbook pro 13

I have been facing a display problem in my macbook pro (mid 2010, 13 inch) for more than six month. I talked to many persons from applecare and conformed to their advice. but the problem remains same. I went to apple authorised service provider at least 8 times. they changed my logic board, RAM etc. the problem remains same.
finally, I talked to applecare again. they adviced me to run fresh Lion installation and observe the machine without any thridd party software. I got the same problem.
when I call them, every person attending the call advices me new thing ! they are very polite and say: "if you have this problem again, please inform me." unfortunately, when I write them again about the same problem they do not care it !!!
I am very much frustated and psychologically tired with this issue.
Thanks a lot for your assistance.

I can only do wild guesses at this popint, only thing I can think of on your end is possible AC power problems, but I've not been impressed with Apple's quality since the 68K or Beige days.
THe iMac7,1 I'm on now needed repair 3 times & still scares me with it's PSU temps.

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