Screen turns to static upon restart
Just this morning, I restarted my iMac. Right after it asked me "are you sure" and I clicked OK, most of the screen turned to a static-like haze before it went to black. It does restart fine, but it does this now on each restart. Any ideas on what's up?
Thanks.
Frank
I just found out more about this problem: it only occurs when font smoothing is set to turn off below 12 pts fonts! When I have it set to 8, the problem does not occur!
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