NEWBIE: G5 not displaying on my LCD PLEASE HELP!!!!
Hi, just joined the forums. I am completely new to Macs other than playing around with a few vintage systems. I did have a G4 MDD briefly but did not keep long enough to actually do anything with. I just bought a Power Mac G5 dual 2.0 with (I think) 1.5 gigs of ram. The guy I bought it from showed me that it worked by displaying it though an S-Video adapter he had onto his TV but he did not have a monitor. I figured that was good enough. I took it home and tried to hook it up to a spare Dell 1908FPT monitor I had lying around. It shows the initial bootup screen but eventually goes to a blank background. I can move the mouse around but there are no icons and I cannot do anything. I've managed to get it to boot to the install media (figured what the heck clean install). It seems to go though the install but eventually gives me a blank background same as before. A couple times while trying to boot it will go black and the fans get louder and louder...
Yeah, that's what I thought. Or didn't think of.
Monitors don't need drivers, the computer or video card does.
Could it be a problem with the adapter? Wouldn't think so.
What kind of video card do you have? Probably a Radeon or Nvidea. And it has an s-video port... I don't recall having one on the Dual 2.0 that I had, but that probably doesn't mean much.
You don't have that cable do you? I'd say you could try using your tv for a monitor to see what happens if you did.
Darn, there were over a thousand support pages on that monitor or ones like it. Maybe buried in there is some kind of answer. And yet I think we're missing something simple...
I'm very sorry to hear about your job. You don't need added grief at a time like this.
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