Screen Problem/Start up problem!
Hello, Im new!
I've been reading through forums and they are very helpful! But i have no idea about macs really!
Anyway! I have a Ibook G4 and its about 4 months old!
And has the latest version of tiger on i believe!
Now i had my laptop on my bed, and then i fell asleep.. I woke up next morning and it was on the floor eek
Now i checked to see if it was ok and everything is working fine! So i use the laptop for about a week or so then i re started it!
Now when it restarts and comes to the desktop it'll show my back ground image, then the Dock menu bar and my icons.. Then suddenly Goes to a blue screen.. Then it Goes back to the desktop Dock appears again along with icons and menu bar.. This repeat over and over again, and i can't acces anything!
Does anybody have any ideas what it could be?!
Thanks steve
Steve-X-EDGE-, Welcome to the discussion area!
It sounds like the Finder is restarting. Perhaps the information in I see a blank blue screen when I try to start up my computer will help.
If not use the steps in KB 106464, Your Mac won't start up in Mac OS X (Mac OS X 10.3.9 or earlier) to troubleshoot.
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CLEAR L_TOTAL.
SORT LT_EBAN BY BNFPO.
LOOP AT LT_EBAN.
GT_ITEM2-FIELD01 = SY-TABIX.
GT_ITEM2-FIELD02 = LT_EBAN-MATNR.
*---Part name, Type, Maker
SPLIT LT_EBAN-TXZ01 AT ',' INTO GT_ITEM2-FIELD03 GT_ITEM2-FIELD04 GT_ITEM2-FIELD05.
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After this, i could not use the LEAVE TO SCREEN 0, because it's not going back to secreen '2000' , I'm getting a blank 400 screen.
Thatswhy I used CALL SCREEN '2000', and it's fine.
But in the case of the Selection screen (1000) something is wrong.
On the screen 2000 I using this logic.
MODULE EXIT_2000 INPUT.
CASE OK_CODE.
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WHEN 'CANC'.
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ENDMODULE. " exit_2000 INPUT
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But when I hit the back button, and on the SELECTION-SCREEN I want to run the program again, it's not going to the program logic, it's jumping to this CALL SELECTION-SCREEN '1000', and leaving of course.
START-OF-SELECTION.
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IF GT_DISPLAY[] IS INITIAL.
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IF S_RET = '1'.
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ELSE.
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Edited by: Roland on Dec 5, 2011 11:27 AMHi Max!
Yeah, I was thinking the same, that the problem is with that loop.
But I don't know, how can I solved in a different way, because when we hit the print button, we getting all the items from a table, and we starting looping on them. In the loop we passing the values to a GT_ITEM table, later this table is connected with an excell, so it will be printed out in an excell form.
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AND WERKS = '3A10'.
WRITE L_LABST UNIT LT_EBAN-MEINS TO GT_ITEM2-FIELD09.
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WHERE A~EBELN = LT_EBAN-EBELN
AND A~EBELP = LT_EBAN-EBELP.
IF LS_EKPO-WAERS <> 'HUF'.
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EXPORTING
DATE = SY-DATUM
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FOREIGN_CURRENCY = LS_EKPO-WAERS
LOCAL_CURRENCY = 'HUF'
IMPORTING
LOCAL_AMOUNT = LS_EKPO-NETPR.
ENDIF.
IF LS_EKPO-PEINH IS INITIAL. LS_EKPO-PEINH = 1. ENDIF.
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ENDIF.
WRITE LT_EBAN-PREIS CURRENCY 'HUF' TO GT_ITEM2-FIELD11.
CONDENSE GT_ITEM2-FIELD11.
CONCATENATE GT_ITEM2-FIELD11 'Ft' INTO GT_ITEM2-FIELD11
SEPARATED BY SPACE.
L_NETWR = LT_EBAN-MENGE * LT_EBAN-PREIS.
WRITE L_NETWR CURRENCY 'HUF' TO GT_ITEM2-FIELD12.
CONDENSE GT_ITEM2-FIELD12.
CONCATENATE GT_ITEM2-FIELD12 'Ft' INTO GT_ITEM2-FIELD12
SEPARATED BY SPACE.
L_TOTAL = L_TOTAL + L_NETWR.
*---Unit
SELECT SINGLE UNIT INTO GT_ITEM2-FIELD13
FROM ZMM0500T
WHERE PERNR = LT_EBAN-BEDNR.
*---Name
SELECT SINGLE SNAME INTO GT_ITEM2-FIELD14
FROM PA0001
WHERE PERNR = LT_EBAN-BEDNR
AND ENDDA = '99991231'.
*---Append
GT_ITEM2-CNTR01 = ''.
APPEND GT_ITEM2. CLEAR: GT_ITEM2, ST_400, DESCR, ITEM.
ENDLOOP.
GT_ITEM2-FIELD11 = 'Total'.
WRITE L_TOTAL CURRENCY 'HUF' TO GT_ITEM2-FIELD12.
CONDENSE GT_ITEM2-FIELD12.
CONCATENATE GT_ITEM2-FIELD12 'Ft' INTO GT_ITEM2-FIELD12
SEPARATED BY SPACE.
GT_ITEM2-CNTR01 = 'B'.
APPEND GT_ITEM2. CLEAR GT_ITEM2.
ANy idea?
Thank You
Edited by: Roland on Dec 5, 2011 1:36 PM
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First of all, a HUGE thank you to the Arch Community – I've been using Arch on my desktop for five years, and between the forum and the wiki, have been able to solve/fix every issue so far without needing to post a question. Now I'm stuck....
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After rebooting into my new Arch install, the same screen issue starts, but it starts while the systemd messages are flying by, before I get to a command line. Happens in both regular and fallback mode, but here's the (possible) good news: I can blindly log in as root and issue
# systemctl reboot
and it works! It seems that my system is there, and the screen issue is just graphical.
This netbook has a VIA chipset, which I know is a huge pain, and I know I'll need the openchrome drivers for X, but X is not involved here – in the fresh install, X isn't even present in the system yet. So I wrote down everything I could from the HDT at boot, went back into the Ubuntu LiveUSB, mounted and chrooted into Arch, and added the following to the mkinitcpio.conf modules array:
MODULES="via via_agp sata_via viafb i2c_viapro
and then issued
# mkinitcpio -p linux
After rebooting, I still get the same screen issue, but even earlier – instead of halfway through systemd's messages, it starts right after “running early hook udev”. I can still (after waiting until I'm sure the command prompt is availabe) blindly log in as root and issue “systemctl reboot.”
I'm totally out of ideas – perhaps it's just that I need certain boot parameters, or something else in my kernel line in syslinux.cfg (which right now is just the default “ro”) but I know almost nothing about these topics since they've never been a problem on my desktop. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to run Ubuntu on this thing (no offense to the Ubuntu community intended) I just want my Arch!
Last edited by chubs (2013-03-03 06:18:15)Well I'm an idiot and the answer was staring me in the face in my own post: if adding those modules to mkinitcpio.conf made the issue start earlier, maybe one of them is the problem.
Passing "modprobe.blacklist=viafb" to the kernel at boot (by pressing TAB at the syslinux menu and appending it to the end) did the trick, both on the installed system and for the archiso install media. Marking as solved. -
T410s fingerprint reader not working. Also, display/screen problems
Hi,
I have been using my t410s for about two months now, and initially I used the fingerprint reader to log on or unlock the computer. I started signing on with my password a few weeks ago and have noticed that my fingerprint reader log-on will no longer work.
There is a green light next to the fingerprint reader when it is accessible (log-ins, etc.). When I used to use it, it would pause and then blink green or red if tehre was an error, and then light up green again until I correctly swiped my finger. Now, during log-ons, there is a green light, and when I swipe my finger, the light turns off (does not become green again, AND the screen does not recognize my original swipe) so I am forced to use the password to sign on.
How do I resolve this?
While I'm here...I've noticed in the last few weeks taht my screen would occasionally 'fade' to 'off colors' (like the contrast is tweaked). I remember once, the screen shut down and then came back up with a window stating something abuot the computer resolving its own problem of the videocard(or whatever...I'm not sure what component it was, only that it was display-related). It may help to know taht I use a display application that changes the screen brightness with the time of day (f.lux), which may have something to do with this but I doubt it because none of the screen settings with of this application look like the 'faded', 'off-looking' screen that I'm inquiring about.
Any tips?Hi,
I experienced the same strange display problem as you. Since two month I have a T410s (2912-39G) and from time to time the colors of the screen would start changing for no obvious reason and come back to normal after about one minute. When it happens it gives me the impression that the color composition changes gradually, as if one color component is suddenly fading away and the display image gets a weird contrast, but it is hard to describe. I have no influence on the process for example by changing the contrast, and with me it's not linked to any additional screen-software either (e.g. f.lux is not installed).
I'm glad you mentioned the issue, dele44. I didn't dare to bother my dealer with it because it's hard to describe and I have no clue how to provoke it. Anybody else has had the problem or an idea how to solve it.... -
Sudden macbook pro screen problem after genius bar "repair"
I took my 15" early 2011 MBP (still under 3 year applecare) to the genius bar after I discovered the battery had swollen up and was pushing the trackpad up. They replaced this and I also asked them to reapply the thermal paste as I felt like it was running hot causing the fans to increase with relatively little load (apparently there was a problem with the early 2001 MBPs and thermal paste which is well documented elsewhere). Machine worked great when they handed it back to me in the store.
But when I turned it on a couple of days later, serious problems! First there was a messed up blue / grey / purple / green screen with lines all over it & it didn't boot. I felt like the DVD-drive noise it usually gives sounded lower pitched than usual too but I could be imagining that.. I turned it on & off several times and each time a similar (but slightly different) screen. I tried various different "startup key" combinations eg safe boot, hardware test without success.
However after I reset the NVRAM I got just a grey screen which then booted into snow leopard. It could've been a coincidence that this happened after the NVRAM reset, I don't know. Anyway, the mac is sort of working - great!
BUT the screen colours are still messed up. Looks like what I'd imagine you'd get if you tried to run in 16 colours. There's also some flickering near the bottom of the screen. Weirdly though, when I click and hold on some items, eg in the dock, the colours seem more normal again on parts of the screen.
Examples below:
1. colours look terrible here!
2. the blue triangle isn't right at all. (note the curvy lines are just an artifact from the camera)
3. however when I click there is is some improvement to some of the colours on bits of the screen eg the dock items (except the logic icon which still looks wrong) - I don't think the big circle in the middle is right (that's not a flash, it's on the screen).
I've tried to run the hardware test by holding down D on start up and aside from taking longer to boot, I don't get any options to run tests.
Anyone have any idea what could be causing this?? As the colours are correct sometimes, I'm inclined to think it's a video card problem rather than a screen problem. System profiler says I have and AMD Radeon HD 6490M & Intel HD 3000. I'm just wondering if they could've somehow damaged the video card when reapplying the thermal paste. But I really don't know.
I will book another genius bar appointment but there's a 1 week wait and it's kind of annoying!
Thanks.bastienvans
There's no recall for early 2011 machines - only for mid-2010 models.
But you're right - there's a growing thread here of hose having problems with the early 2011 GPU. Odd that it doesn't seem to affect those with late 2011 models.
Clinton
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