Odd display behaviour

I just had something odd happen to my macbook display and I'm wondering if it's a defect in Leopard, the display hardware or some weird interplay between my programs.
I had nine open applications at the time: firefox, thunderbird, terminal, finder, preview, aquamacs, active timer, slife and MS word for mac. While I was reading a pdf in preview, i noticed a small light pink circle (only noticable against the bright white empty margin of the pdf paper I was reading), about 1 cm in diameter. At first I thought it was a smudge on the screen (from what, I don't know), because when i scrolled it stayed put. so i tried to wipe it away, and then I realized it wasn't on the surface of the screen. It also remained when I switched into firefox and there was white background on the webpage that was up. Then, when I switched into thunderbird, where there is a blue tinted background to the folder tree, the pinkish circle disappeared, and in it's place was a tiny white rectangle, about 2mm by 3mm.
At first I worried it was a dead pixel spot on my display, since it seemed to remain in the same place no matter which programs I switched into, unless it was covered with a white spot (then it reverted back to a pinkish circle). I put my macbook to sleep and woke it up again (hoping it would reset my display). I was just contemplating rebooting my macbook when I noticed the tiny rectangle "jump". It jumped about an inch everytime my mouse cursor got near it. After jumping several times (while I tried to click on it) it eventually disappeared altogether, and I haven't seen it in the past hour or so.
I'm new to mac, but I've been using PCs for a while, and were this a pc, I'd be immediately convinced I had a virus. But I understand that macs are not subject to most if not all viruses. So, does anyone know what might have just happened to me?

Cisco has finally figured out the issue.
The problem was in description tag there was an ampersand sign "R&D1" and "R&D2" when we removed it the phones started working fine.
I feel like I'm Cisco's beta tester on a daily basis. These are mature devices running on mature software, how do things like this slip through there cracks?!

Similar Messages

  • 10.6.5 update - 27" iMac, Radeon 5750 odd graphics behaviours?

    I updated my new iMac 27" to OS 10.6.5 today and have seen some odd graphics behaviours.
    1. Dock icon for Activity Monitor becomes transparent. Running AM, hidden showing CPU history
    2. White rectangle at bottom of expanding folder (list view)
    3. OK Button blue/white check mark pattern when configuring VPN. GUI feels "slow"
    I updated using the Software Update tool; noticed these issues and re-updated using the Combo Installer; no change.
    Any ideas or suggestions? Is this just me? I have a MacBook -- no probems at all!

    N Gallagher,
    I had the problem earluer, but it got far worse with 10.6.5, however, I fixed it by updating my wacom tablet driver.
    It wasn't the system update, but an old driver causing the problem.
    Resetting PRAM, SMC and permissions and all the other standard drivel people post is nice sentiments, but it should be clear that the problem is something else because that solution hasn't solved the problem for anyone.
    I have the sneaky suspicion that it's old flash and old drivers for most people.
    See my original post here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12570261#12570261
    BUT. If you have a Wacom tablet, for to their website and download the latest driver from September 10, 2010.
    That's all it took for all my graphics problems to go away.

  • Odd software behaviour Lumia 720

    I'm the proud owner of a Lumia 720 since July. I'm facing some odd software behaviour recently though. Without notice or any pattern, the current app changes to another one, sometimes four or five times while my phone vibrates like mad. It happens two, or three times a week, and there's no significant pattern but this weird "phone on speed" behaviour always ends in the Bing app. I thought rebooting was the answer but it doesn't. Does someone has any clue?

    Ugura,
    Thanks for your reply. I adjusted the touch sensitivity but that did not do the trick. Last night, I was already sleeping, suddenly my Lumina 720 played a song that I played before many weeks ago. That was quite odd too. With my phone connected to the charger, me asleep and there was that terrible noise from an old U2-song... And I could not stop it, nor could I lower the volume so I had to turn on my computer to find the keys to a soft reset and it was in the middle of the night.
    So I waited till this morning to reset my phone to it's factory-settings. Much to my annoyance- without any external app loaded, the phone went on nuts again. This time, while vibrating taking numerous screen shots... It's like my phone is haunted. A little poltergeist in it. I need some high-tec exorcism I'm afraid.
    Hope someone can help me further!

  • Odd display behavior

    Happy New Year to All!
    I just recently upgraded to Tiger. Since that time, I have noticed some rather odd display behavior on my screen. For example, when I am on web site that has a "fill-in" box, once I highlight that box to fill it in, a black rectangle stays in that position on my screen until I click on the desktop.
    Likewise, if I highlight an icon on the desktop, a black rectangle outlines the icon and stays visible until I either highlight something else or click randomly on the screen.
    I never noticed this behavior under Panther (10.3.9) and while it's not a huge deal, it does seem odd. It's as if the screen doesn't refresh after moving on. Any ideas?
    Thanks,
    Brad
    P.S. After posting this message, a black rectangle corresponding to the message edit box stayed on my screen. Irritating.

    Hi William,
    Yes, I tried both and booted / used my Tech Tool Deluxe repair disk. All no help. Don't know if they are related, but also have other odd things going on.
    Is it normal to have two Restart selections, two Shutdown selections and two Logout Selections under the Apple menu in Tiger? I do. Didn't in Panther, but can't remember if I've always had them in Tiger. Should I?
    Also, can't get my scanner (All-in-one, printer works) to run in Tiger. All of these problems go away when I boot into my 10.3.9 clone on my Firewire drive. I'd really hate to return to Panther, but ...
    Basically, I'm getting some very odd behavior, from a system that has always been relatively bullit-proof until now. I do all the req'd housekeeping stuff, have both Macaroni and Cocktail. Don't know what to try.
    Brad

  • Unpredictible Display behaviour

    Hi!!
    I am facing problem in having a correct display in the second tab pane of JTabbedPane. I am using JTabbedPane for displaying one panel in 1st tab and other panel (identical to 1st panel) in the 2nd tab. The panels which are added in the tabbed pane are complex panels -- having multiple panels in it with combobox, textfields, etc.
    The display in the tab 1 is perfect. But when one moves to tab 2, few combobox are displayed, whereas labels, textfields are missing. The reason behind this display err is not clear. If I try to select an item in the displayed combobox, the drop down list appears & on selection of one of the item, the combobox is not displayed in the tab. So, the tab almost becomes empty. Though clicking in the area where the combobox & textfield should have been (probably), it shows drop down list & textfield part. Sometimes, few of the components come on the gui display but are again resetted(gets hidden) on some operation.
    Its not the case that the panels that is being added in tab2 is having few components. If I move this panel to tab1, it is displayed correctly where as the panel which was previous on tab1 n currently on tab2, shows the unpredictible display behaviour.
    Any suggestions would be very helpful.
    Regards,
    Shree

    Hi,
    Chart background should change or combo box????
    Suppose ur combobox has 4 materials a, b, c, d.
    If u select materail 'a', the corresponding graph or some other component will give u values corresponding to that selection rit?
    now u wanted to have different canvas background /chartbackground  ??? or for combo box???
    if that is for chart/complete canvas background:
    Goto Arts and background
    drag and drop a background into canvas
    set some background color to that component
    goto combo box
    goto behaviour tab of combo box  .
    Insert selected item:mapp that to a blank cell (Sheet1!$E$1)
    goto behaviour tab of background component .
    Status:mapp the cell Sheet1!$E$1   (insert Selected item cell of combo box (Sheet1!$E$1)).
    Key: mapp material 'a'
    place ur chart on this background and bring that to front....
    follow the same for all material types b,c,d
    Note :your chart should b on top of all the background components .
    Hope this helps you
    Regards,
    Sri

  • Odd Quicklook behaviour

    Running mavericks 10.9.2 have noticed a small quirk in the behaviour on one of my installs.
    Selecting a group of images (mostly jpegs, sometimes tiffs) and opening quicklook. scrollling through
    and quite randomly some of the images will momentarily flash up then turn blank, if you cycle through to the start and continue
    sometimes those that didn't show, will show and vice versa. if you select the grid option then all will show.
    all images are in either sRGB or RGB in the most part 8 bit, and all without layers or alpha channels.
    there is another hard drive on my machine that has the same version of mavericks
    and does not display this behaviour
    I have also removed the quick look preferences from the users library and restarted but the behaviour continues.
    so i was wondering if anyone has come across this and if they have any ideas as to why this might be happening
    any known issues with third party apps etc.
    any advice would be gratefully received
    thanks in advance.

    Just spent about an hour playing around with various things and now it seems to have resolved itself. Odd... Marking this topic as answered now.

  • Odd Firefox Behaviour

    I have been trying to develop a small, simple filter for an xml-based artist database and whilst I can get it to work without issue in Safari I seem to be having some odd problems with Firefox ... both on a Mac (Safari 4.04 and Firefox 3.6)
    Page - for reference - is here: http://artperth.com/01-artistsfilter.html
    Ideally I'm trying to get it so a click highlights rather than extracts particular artists but my head has been pulled away by these problems.
    Essentially in Firefox nothing is displayed in regards to the dynamic elements.
    I had thought it might be a problem with my code but discovered an anamoly with the supplied samples.
    The classic example is both online (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/data_region/DataSetObserver.html) and in the set of files you can download (Spry_1_6_1_022408).
    The online version functions without issue whereas the offline version just returns blanks in Firefox. Both function without issue in Safari.

    Hi... that explains the local part at least - bit nervous about mucking around with such things - but the http://artperth.com/01-artistsfilter.html is also returning blanks online - at my end at least. I had thought it might be a mac/firefox thing but then thought perhaps the online samples use a different set of files.

  • Odd SocketPermission behaviour

    Hi,
    I've been trying to use SocketPermissions to restrict the IP addresses from which a ServerSocket will accept a connection and am getting some wierd behaviour.
    The ServerSocket will reject and close the first connection attempt from a disallowed address. Subsequent connections from the same host (using telnet) are not rejected/accepted or closed - they just 'hang there'.
    The SecurityManager is also really slow at deciding whether a connection can be accepted or rejected.
    Is this usual ? Or is there a way to setup SecurityManager to behave 'nicely' ?
    regards
    Tony Seebregts

    Just spent about an hour playing around with various things and now it seems to have resolved itself. Odd... Marking this topic as answered now.

  • Odd XML behaviour

    Hello Again,
    I'm having an odd problem that I don't fully understand and
    I'm hoping for some insight. Basically if I have an XML object
    declared like
    var xml:XML = <template label="test" />;
    or
    var xml:XML = <tempate label="test"></template>;
    and then use
    Alert.show(xml);
    the alert is an empty box where I was expecting to see the
    single XML node, but
    var xml:XML = <template label="test"><tab label="my
    tab" /></template>;
    and then call the same Alert.show it displays the xml as I
    expect. For some reason when the xml only has one node flex seems
    to think it's empyt? Or at least that's what I'm led to believe...
    Any thoughts on this? I'm sorta stuck for the night trying to
    figure out how to get that value to display.
    </zach>

    Try using Alert.show(xml.toXMLString()). The toString() on
    XML will return the text value of the xml, which in your case is
    nothing, there is NO text value.
    -brent

  • Odd cell behaviour

    I have an odd problem with cell. If I format a cell normally with more text than one line and say wrap (or break, I use a german version of numbers and don't know the correct english expression) the text is properly on two lines.
    If I format the cell as drop down menu and say wrap again, the text won't wrap on two lines just stays strangely on one line. Tried different stuff without success.
    Any hints or solutions?

    Hello
    When you select an item in a menu stored in a cell you are not inserting "text", you are displaying a "menu item".
    They may look the same, they are not the same kind of objects.
    I just agree that when the inspector works with a menu, it would be better if the check box was disabled.
    Look at the screenshot
    In B9 is a menu, it doesn't wrap
    In B12 is a formula =B9 which grabs the text of the menu item so, this time, the "Wrap Text in cell" apply.
    Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 6 février 2008 22:03:17)

  • Odd return behaviour

    okay, consider the following example:
    public class Oops {
         public static void main(String args[]){
    1:          String oops;
    2:          return;
    3:          System.out.println(oops);
    }we get compile error at 3 saying unreachable statement .. fair enough.
    now, consider this:
    public class Oops {
         public static void main(String args[]){
    1:          String oops;
    2:          if(true) return;
    3:          System.out.println(oops);
    }we have modified two and now there is no errors whats-so-ever.
    However, the odd behaviour hecomes obvious if we comment out line 2 where we will get "variable oops might not have been initialized." ... so it would seem that it can recognize that if(true) return; will not let the program reach 3 and hence doesn't care if oops is initialized but why don't we get a similiar error as in example one?

    I don't see anything bizarre about this question. What
    are you referring to?Perhaps 'bizarre' was a poor choice of words. It's just that I recall silkm posting a rather similar question before (a question about how the compiler/jvm handles thing rather than what API can one use to make foo.
    No, that's not a possibility. The JLS explains exactly
    why this behavior occurs:
    http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/
    tatements.doc.html#236365
    The reason that the second example compiles is so that
    you can have code that is conditionally compiled such
    as debugging statements. It's not bizarre at all, it's
    entirely pragmatic and practical.Yes, of course, makes sense. (Although the possibility of a compiler optimizing it out is flashed there.)

  • Odd SOAMANAGER behaviour

    Ok, I just managed to get my old Dell D610 replaced, but this new laptop has some odd behaviour with some Solman transactions.  I can get into Solman Web Workcenter no problem, but when I try to open SOAMANAGER, I get one blank IE8 window (looks like it's supposed to be hidden), and then a few seconds later a second normal looking IE8 window opens, with a partial URL.  This appears to be a problem with my local profile - I can log in to someone else's machine and it'll work, and a coworker can log into my laptop and it'll also work.
    This is the URL it directs the second window to.. https://<server>.<domain>.com/sap/public/myssocntl?sap-client=100
    whereas this is where it should be going.  https://<server.domain>.com/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/appl_soap_management?sap-client=100&sap-language=EN
    Anyone have any ideas here?  If I call my help desk they're going to be clueless on this one..  lol..
    thanks.
    bk

    Maybe you can rename your home folder in c:\documents and settings and login again - thereby recreating your local profile.

  • Odd JMS Behaviour

    With our application deployed to a client, we have been experiencing some odd behaviour with JMS in Oracle 10g (OC4J 9.0.4).
    The application posts multiple non-transactional messages (roughly 400-500Kb per message) to a queue, which an MDB processes correctly everywhere but the client site. At the client site, only the first message in retrieved from the queue by the MDB, as if to suggest the queue was only capable of holding one message and the other messages are not being added or are being dumped. No exceptions are being thrown, which isn't helpnig diagnose the problem.
    The client site has a similar environment to our internal dev/qa environments - Red Hat AS 3.0 server, v1.4.2 jvm, same OC4J and application config.
    Has anyone else experienced this kind of behaviour with JMS?

    Just spent about an hour playing around with various things and now it seems to have resolved itself. Odd... Marking this topic as answered now.

  • Odd display problems

    I run two 19" CRT monitors off my G4 QS...have for years with no problems. This morning, I arrived in my office, computer running with both monitors displaying fine, and, without touching anything, the left one went dark. I thought I might have jostled my desk and loosened the AC connection, so I shut down, checked all connections to find no problem. I restarted, only to find that my right monitor had lost its signal too. The power light on this monitor went from green (normal-on) to yellow after 10 or 15 seconds of being turned on (never seen that before).
    I didn't have time to deal with this problem, and had to go home to get some work done, leaving the office computer running. Late this afternoon, I popped by the office again for 5 minutes while running errands and found the yellow light on the right monitor blinking (another "never seen before"). I turned off the power on the display, then back on, and the display actually appeared, but at a very odd resolution (sign-in screen icons were signficantly larger than I'd ever seen them), and there was a strange distorted vertical line that "zapped" on and off. Again, I didn't have time to deal with this and had to leave it.
    I've done some research here at home, but still don't have a strong sense of what the problem might be. Might resetting the NVRAM do anything? Can you even reset NVRAM on a QS? Might it be a graphics card problem? If that is likely, what card would be a good replacement?
    Many thanks...
    Message was edited by: Richard Pasley

    Have you tried using only one monitor?
    Have you tried starting up from a CD?
    You can reset NVRAM. Resetting NVRAM "fixes" some display problems. See Mac PRAM, NVRAM, CUDA/PMU & Battery Tutorial
     Cheers, Tom

  • Headless mini exhibiting strange display behaviour in VNC

    Hi,
    My mini has no monitor connected and I connect via VNC. The VNC services are provided by Apple Remote Desktop and I connect to the mini from my PowerBook with Chicken of the VNC, although the behaviour is the same no matter what VNC client I use.
    When a VGA monitor is connected to the mini, even if the monitor is off, there are no problems. When I check the display preferences is shows the monitor that is attached.
    When no monitor is connected I can connect to the mini and get the login screen, when I log in the display is then scrambled (like when the refresh rate is incorrect on a CRT), if I manage to log out from the session I see the login screen again without a problem.
    The mini is running Tiger.
    Has anyone had a similar problem, and are there any solutions?
    Regards
    Craig

    Tim Haigh wrote: "Your Mac Mini support headless operation no matter what OS it is running."
    That's what I had always believed. However my mini has been connected to a monitor to originally set it up, and to try and troubleshoot this problem.
    When I boot it with the monitor attached I can change the resolutions but it doesn't seem to make any difference when I remove the monitor and go back to headless operation.
    Do you think that by having a monitor connected previously it might cause this problem? It shouldn't in my opinion. In any case the way that you set up your mini would still have resulted in the copy of OSX using a monitor, even if it was the one from your other Mac.
    Regardless, I had already decided that I will install OS X Server on the mini, so there is little point in me continuing to configure the current OS X installation. As soon as I have installed it I will post here again and let everyone know how it went! You will probably find that if I reinstalled OS X now it would solve the problem, but I'm sure there must be a way to resolve the problem without a reinstallation. This is after all a Macintosh!
    Regards
    Craig

Maybe you are looking for