Strange Pixeling

Hi All,
I have an interesting problem. I recently acquired a used iMac G4 1 Ghz 17". It had a broken screen so I replaced the entire top portion of the iMac with one from another machine with a bad motherboard and PSU. Everything seemed to be fine until, about halfway through the 10.4 install a bunch of pixels appeared on the screen with the wrong colors. They run in almost straight lines about 0.5" apart. Their color changes based on the background being displayed. They do not appear as the machine is booting or as the machine is shutting down. They, also do not appear when I boot from cd into Disk Warrior v4.??. I ran xBench and when the graphics portion is running, none of the pixels appear incorrect in the test window. I disassembled the machine and made sure all contacts were clean and cable were properly seated. I also took the broken screen and hooked it up and where the image was able to be displayed, the same problem appeared. I used the original cables for both units, so I don't think it is the video cable or monitor. I also tested the hardware with TechTool Pro v5 and all hardware tested fine. It seems to me to be a driver issue, but cannot find any drivers for the GeForce4 MX 32Mb integrated graphics chip. I am assuming, since there was not an updated driver release from apple it is a problem only I am having. Anybody have any ideas?

Originally Posted by NovAlf
Strange ZEN logout event triggering
Hi!
ZCM 10.3.2, Windows XP/7, Novell Client installed, have a bundle associated to device and should be triggered at ZENworks logout. This all seems to work ok, in ordinary way. But, when user auth is ok with Novell Client (against eDir), but is not attached with DLU via ZEN and appear Windows Workstation login screen and user cancel this dialog and return to Novell Client login screen, then before mentioned bundle is triggered, in some unknown for me reason. Because there is no ZEN login, not speaking about logout. I have similar bundle set to trigger at user login ... it does not run same way. Also, don't see same behavior when bundle is set to run at user logout.
Any ideas?
Btw. this kind of cancelling login is seems to related to getting a'lot of Bundle.ItemCreationError's described in http://forums.novell.com/novell-prod...ionerrors.html.
More thanks, Alar.
Hi Alar,
Do you have any update on you problem because I have the same issue and I am wondering if you found any way to bypass it??
I found another thread but no solution:
http://forums.novell.com/novell/nove...ter-login.html
Thank you in advance for your answer,
OAKFND
PS: Zen version is 11.1

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0xffffff81869435b0 : 0xffffff7f8ccebb2e
0xffffff8186943600 : 0xffffff7f8cd61b4f
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0xffffff8186943870 : 0xffffff7f8cb4566c
0xffffff81869438f0 : 0xffffff7f8ca77f03
0xffffff81869439a0 : 0xffffff7f8ca7cfad
0xffffff8186943a60 : 0xffffff7f8caa59ef
0xffffff8186943c60 : 0xffffff7f8caa75a1
0xffffff8186943d50 : 0xffffff7f8d8727a0
0xffffff8186943db0 : 0xffffff7f8d86f522
0xffffff8186943e40 : 0xffffff7f8d859f57
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Message was edited by: joaquin.durand

David, I think he is referring to this effect (at least, this is what is happening to me). Look at this two screen captures.
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it didn't seem to came from it, but I will check temperature and try to experiment cooling more the mac, with smcfancontrol :
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for your battery !!! : dead at 44 cycles ???
this is not normal...
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8 Gb Ram
Nvidia Geforce 320M
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4
I attached Screenshots-on the mission control screenshot, look at the Chrome and Finder Icons, and on the Chrome one, look at the left tab at the top; While I have seen the issue in other places ie other graphics in Finder, as well as icons in Chrome and Safari, I couldn't obtain screenshots of these; the basic issue, however, is that various graphics all appear like the ones in the mission control screenshot. I am unsure if this is a software problem, or more likely a hardware/driver problem. Has anyone else experienced this issue and/or know of a fix for it? Thank you.
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I have the same model MacBook Pro that you do. Have you tried booting from your Mac OS X Install DVD, to see if you can use the keyboard at that point?

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This is happening more and more to my iMac 27". There is a pattern of dead pixels (or something) as seen in this image.
That is a screenshot of a white background Photoshop CS5 document zoom level 33% at 300DPI, RGB color mode.
Zoomed in:
Over an image:
This is extremely annoying and started happening a couple weeks ago. I've deleted my Preferences file and it still happens. Anyone have any idea what this is? It only happens at certain zoom levels. If I zoom in a lot or stay very zoomed out, it is not there. This pattern is the same across multiple documents and it's driving me crazy! It looks like confetti over my documents and it is making image editing very difficult.
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3. Reopen the image.
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Is this a stuck pixel issue? Is there software I can run to help sort the issue out?

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Tafftech, your gut feeling is my worst gut feeling as well. Considering this thing isn't covered under an AppleCare plan any longer, I'm considering buying a used logic board from Ebay and using the walkthrough tutorial on ifixit.com to replace it myself. I found some at around $250. Not super happy about having to do that, but it's by far the cheapest route to hopefully solving this problem.
Before I started a career in design and animation, I was an IT guy, so I'm not afriad to get my hands dirty. Although this will be a bigger challange that I usually take on.
Anyone think this is a really bad idea for any reason? I appreciate other's more informed opinions on this stuff.
Thanks

Strange pixels or static

Hey,
When my Imac goes to a black screen such as loading a game or say a black screensaver like computer name. It appears that ther is static or interference like you would see on tv when you use particular electronic thing such as a paper shredder. The static is isolated to my middle to right side on my screen. The longer the screen is left black the less noticeable it gets . Anyone know what's wrong
Fox

The following is allowable under Tiger. Perhaps Leopard has the same or something similar...............
Mac OS X 10.4 Help-My Dispay Doesn’t Look Right
If the above is of no help then you will need to do the following:
System Preferences>Display>Display
Check the Colors & Brightness settings.
My Color setting is set to Millions which I believe is the default setting.
Now click on the Color button.
Check Display Profile
Is Show profiles for this display only enabled or disabled?
If necessary click on the Calibrate button & do the necessary.
Now in the bottom right corner, click on the purple button w/the black ? mark in the middle. This will bring up the help window.
Midway down, click on the Colorsync Utility link.
The next window should be Profile First Aid.
Read & follow the instructions/details of About Profile First Aid: & do the necessary to Verify & Repair.

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