The screen turns black and the computer stays on
hi,
Once in a while when I am on my beige power macintosh and it runs smoothly, it all of a suddenly stops what it is doing and the screen turns black. when I am on iTunes some times, the screen turns black but the music still plays. I unplug and replug the monitor in but it is still black. Here are my computer stats. Ram 320mb, OS 10.2.8, 8 gig hard drive, 6mb vram, built in video, USB & Firewire PCI cards, and an AV Personality Card w/ 28k Modem, Running 333 mhz, and I have tried 3 other mother boards
Welcome Jarrett,
The article implies that using a certain version or "build" of the 10.2.8 updater fixes the problem. No true. Almost everyone who's experienced it on a Beige G3 has used the preferred updater specified in that article.
Not every Beige gets it. I had 640MB when I moved to 10.2.8 and it never hiccuped. However, I run video off a PCI accelerator card and, as Frank mentioned, the video issue seems to happen when you are using the logic board video port.
If you can't get your computer to boot and run long enough to use Terminal, pop it open and pull RAM until its under 192MB. Then the computer should be stable long enough to do the fix. Then you can add the pulled RAM back.
The good new is that everyone seems to have permanently fixed the problem by applying the Terminal procedure described.
Allan
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