[G4] Monitor Blinking

[Anne Keller-Smith]

Mouse and keyboard suddenly stopped working, so tried a number of USB 
ports and they working off the hub. Seems the ports on the monitor have 
gone bad? My understanding these things happen. The monitor is an Apple 
17" LCD display from 2002. However, my son is complaining the monitor 
is going to sleep alot, and that seems to be true, too. I turned off 
Hot Corners to remove that variable, but except for writing this note 
(it's behaving now) it was flashing on - off - on - off. I did Apple 
Hardware Test and all passed (I was wondering maybe video RAM going?) 
Tried Apple First Aid but said didn't support. I'm sure I've done this 
before, but maybe not with Jaguar. Next step I suppose would be to try 
Diskwarrior, see what it finds, but this would be checking out the OS, 
right? I want to check the hardware first.

Is there any way to check out the monitor itself? Guess I'd like to get 
a heads up and if I need to purchase a new one give myself some time to 
buy it online as opposed to going to the local spot, which would be 
more expensive. Also localize the problem to monitor, computer 
hardware, OS or something else.

Anne Keller Smith
Down to Earth Web Design
G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower
896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS X 10.2.8
mailto:earthpigz at earthlink.net
http://www.downtoearthweb.com