[HM] screen goes dark and never comes back

Ruby Appling wappling at tampabay.rr.com
Mon Mar 31 02:05:26 PST 2003


> RE; first try the space key, but also check energy saver, if hardrive 
> is allowed to sleep, it takes longer to wake-up



> I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem.  I've got a dual 
> 866MHz G4
> purchased in early Noremember 2002, running OS X 10.2.4.  For quite a 
> while
> now, maybe even since I purchased it, about every 3rd or 4th time the 
> screensaver
> software kicks in I can't get the monitor to display afterwords.  This 
> happens
> both when only the screen saver only is activated, and when the whole 
> machine
> goes to sleep.  I come back to the machine, and touch some keyboard 
> keys and
> wiggle the mouse but the monitor remains dark.  Pressing and holding 
> the
> power button is the only cure.
>



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