Older 21" Cinema Display makes hardrive race

For starters, I have to plug my older 21" Cinema Display into my year-old MacBook Pro via DVI and Firewire adaptors.
I resolve my initial problem with WiFi interference, by changing the channel on my router.
A new issue I'm noticing is how my hard drive races like a 747 ready for take-off when working on software programs like PhotoShop or Corel Painter.
When unplugged from the monitor and working on same files, no racing hard drive.
Anybody else experiencing this?

Oops! I just read that the USB had to be connected to allow the brightness slider. I'll leave this post in case it's helpful to anyone.

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I believe you naeed the Apple ADC to DVI adapter.

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Hello everyone, I am new to these forums, though I have often checked for answers here.
I have looked as best I could for issues similar to ours but haven't found any yet, so here it goes:
Our system:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2167)
Our two Apple Cinema Displays:
Displays:
Cinema:
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Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported
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Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported
Never had a problem (Computer purchased in mid-2007). However, a couple of weeks ago, it started: the OS wouldn't start. After a few trials and tests and wonderments, we realised that what prevented it from starting (you know, whirly thing then sometimes apple logo then just light blue: frozen) was the way the screens were plugged into the computer.
At the back of the computer there are four connections for the displays, two at the top and two at the bottom. They used to be connected to the two bottom ones. Then we realised that only attaching one single display to the top right connection would allow the computer to start.
Further tests led us to attach the second display AFTER the whole OS was up and operating, again at the top (next to the only functioning one for startup), and the displays work perfectly. However, if I leave them in this arrangement and turn off the computer, when I start it again the system crashes, like before.
I am pretty sure at this point that a hardware problem is causing a software crash, but what do you think it consists of? We performed all the tests, including the extended hardware test with the installation disk. No problems were found at all.
Would it be helpful (or harmful!) to take out the graphics cards and place them in different slots?
Thanks so much in advance,
Valentina

Hi, I have tried shifting them around, and the problem does seem to follow the graphics card, despite all tests indicating they are both working properly. Any other arrangements will cause a grey screen to come down while starting up and say I need to restart the computer.
Changing the slots for the graphic cards, but keeping the display attached in the right place, would allow the computer to turn on but a window would come up saying that they weren't optimally configured (16x or 8x or 4x speeds). The best configuration remains the one I begun with (slots 1 and 4). The computer will only start properly with the display in slot 4, right hand side looking at the back of the display, and only when it's turned on will it allow me to attach the second monitor, again, only in slot 4, to the left side.
The same would work if the card was in slot 1, but it would tell me they weren't configured ideally so I put the card back in slot 4.
At this point, then (I have also just tried resetting the PRAM by pressing cmdoption+PR when restarting, but no changes) should I reconfigure the graphics card? (If yes, how do I do it?)
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Thank you BobRz,
We'll take a run into town today and see what we can find. If it won't work on her laptop, she has a G5 from 2004. That might work.
Very much appreciated,
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I know this is an old post, but did you ever find a solution for this? I just installed Windows 7 through Boot Camp and bought an older 20" Cinema Display (M9177LL/A); the display works wonderfully on the Mac side, but I can't get it to register in Windows. This isn't the brightness issue that I see a lot of people have, I don't see a way to use the display at all.

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I’m using Photoshop CS6 through a MacBook Pro connected to an Apple Cinema Display. Files on display don’t always appear (work area is just blank, interface still there) and when I go to save, the save dialog box is off top of screen to where I can’t see but a small portion of the dialog box. Can’t pull it onto screen. Anyone else experiencing this?

I have a similar situation. I have spring 2011 macbook pro 17" (MacBookPro8,3). I was connecting to an older 30" Cinema Display HD, using the Apple dual-link cable with Mini DVI (Thunderbolt) and USB. I am running 10.6.8.
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I'm pretty sure this is from the "Security Update" that I just installed.
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Except this wierd thing: if I connect the USB and display to the laptop, the display stays dark. If i disconnect the USB cable connecting the DISPLAY to the CONVERTER, the screen comes up fine.
I just plug the keyboard into the laptop and it works. Of course, unplugging the CONVERTER USB from the LAPTOP makes it go away (?!). So I've lost a USB prot with this little hack.
Try messing the USB connections and see if you get any changes.
I have no idea what to make of this bizarre behaviour, but it is making me crazy not being able to reliably use my desk setup with this nice laptop.
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OK so I finally found a functional use for my new Apple TV, which has been sitting unused in my living room. My MacBook Pro already connects to the HD projector in there, so Mac TV is just less functionality and redundant.
I decided the only use I have for a keyboardless Mac interface for just music, podcasts, photos, and videos is the bathtub.
Being the Mac fanboy that I am, I wanted the solution to be all Apple.
So I headed down to my local Apple Store with the intention of buying a new 23" Cinema Display for my Apple TV and an iPod HiFi for the sound. I was dismayed to see them showing off the Apple TV on Sony LCD TVs. Why wouldn't Apple want to sell people a triple-play package and have it set up as a demo? After all, they weren't selling the Sony TVs anyway.
But my first sign of trouble was the very nice store employee who didn't know if the Apple TV would work on a cinema display. But he definitely wanted to find out when I got home. Searching here, I found posts that seem to confirm that it would work, but the actual source is related to an older ADC cinema display, not the new ones.
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I got the white Apple logo on the screen, then everything went black. I used the Menu and + keys on the remote for 6 seconds to cycle through the resolutions. Still all black. I used the Menu and - keys on the remote to reset to factory settings. Again booted into blackness.
Interestingly, while using the + and - keys on the Apple TV remote, the iPod HiFi volume was lowered and raised simultaneously with the moving of the menu selections in Apple TV (I could hear the clicks). What this means is, 2 remotes, each paired to each device, will be needed for proper operation. This is why having too simple a remote is lame.
At this point I am dead in the bathtub water. I drop more money on Apple than it costs to get a new iMac (which is plan B) just so I can give the Apple TV a shot in my bathroom. But it all doesn't fit seemlessly together on first try.
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I've not been convinced a monitor will work with the tv, but I have to accept the word of those that have had success. I'm not so certain that a monitor is a suitable first choice, maybe if you have one lying around OK, but to buy one instead of a tv is not only a very expensive alternative but even if it works you will have no way of controlling the brightness etc.
Any suggestions? Could the HDMI-DVI-D adapter be blocking the HDCP signal needed to display an image? Is DVI-D the wrong adapter to use?
Possibly, Did you ever manage to repeat getting the apple logo or indeed anything even if only for a few seconds. DVI-D or DVI-I would be the right connector, don't use a DVI-A

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I have a 24 volt power supply with the same amps, and want to hook it up to the 4 pronged plug since I don't have the little power supply box. I don't know what each lead is.
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Hi
If the monitor is a clear acrylic model with three feet (which it seems to be), and your computer is an original AGP Graphics/Sawtooth model, you'll need a DVI to ADC adapter.
You can identify your exact computer model from the following link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58418
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DVI to ADC adapters are fairly expensive as they include an integral power supply to drive the monitor. It may also be worth checking your graphics card supports the resolution of the 20" display (1680 by 1050). In the worst case you may need a new graphics card (with a DVI port) and the adapter.

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Real issue here, I have a Macbook Pro 17" 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo with 8GB of ram and a 7200 speed 500gb Hard Drive
My 30" Cinema Displays make my 17" MBP crash, flicker, mouse go crazy etc at least once a day and kernel panic occasionally.
When its not connected to the screen, its fine, never crashes.
Had thought it was the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter as I had read they cause interference, so I replace it but still it crashes the machine.
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I am completely lost.
I have reset the SMC and the PRAM and neither of these do much good at all.
pleeeeeeeease help as I'm seriously peeved with this situation.
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I also have two Apple Cinema Displays. One is 22", ADC. The other is 23", also ADC. I have ADC->DVI adaptors for both.
When I plug either of the two MBPs into my 23" display, it works perfectly. Auto-detects, screen flashes and resizes and wiggles a bit and everything just works exactly as expected.
When I plug the newer (2009) MacBook Pro into the 22" display, it also works perfectly.
When I plug the older (2007) MacBook Pro into the 22" display, nothing happens. No flicker, no screen shift, no work. No lines written to the system.log file, no indication that the laptop even notices that it's plugged in.
Here is a list of troubleshooting steps I have tried. (Please don't ask me to try any of these.)
* As noted above, I tried the 22" display with the newer laptop. Works fine.
* As noted above, I tried the 23" display with the older laptop. Works fine.
* Tried plugging the display into the laptop while the laptop was off, then turning it on.
* Tried plugging the display into the laptop while laptop was asleep, then waking it.
* Tried plugging the display into the laptop while laptop was awake.
* Tried pushing the display power button while it was plugged into the laptop.
* Tried the 'detect displays' button in the System Preferences.
* Tried zapping the PRAM
* Tried resetting the power management unit.
* Tried unplugging/replugging display power while connected to the laptop.
* Tried swapping the two power (ADC->DVI) adaptors.
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I find this really baffling. Why (HOW?) would the original Apple Cinema Display be incompatible with the 2007 MacBook Pro? Or what defect would make the Cinema Display not work with the 2007 MacBook Pro, but work fine with the 2009 MacBook Pro? The only difference I know of aside from a different video chip is the fact that the newer MBP requires an extra adaptor to get from DVI to the mini display port thingie.

I wonder whether you've solved this problem. I have the same issue with my MBP. The 20" Apple Cinema Display is connected through an ADC/DVI converter to a DVI KVM switchbox. It works fine with my G5 tower, but ever since I installed Leopard, it doesn't work on the MBP (in fact, if I plug it in the computer crashes). It worked fine before. I brought the MBP to the Genius Bar, and it worked fine there connected to a regular DVI monitor.

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