[G4] Monitor Blinking

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings ( + )!( + )

I read this on a DMUG user group.

"If your monitor was an Apple 17" Studio Display, there was a "quiet" 
fix it
for free recall.  My Studio Display went 'south' and I discovered this
program via another DMUG user."

> Anne Keller-Smith earthpigz at earthlink.net
> Sun Aug 6 14:35:55 PDT 2006
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> 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



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Harry (*^_^*)
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