[MacDV] New G5 dies, mac servicing, photos altered, web design warning

[FredBillie at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/4/05 12:09:17 PM, gskiii at verizon.net writes:


> I've been having intermittent failures of the USB ports on the back 
> of my 17" Studio LCD display that has the ADC connector.  Finally 
> called AppleCare and they had me reset PRAM and then boot into Open 
> Firmware (hold down cmd-opt-o-f on restart).  That led to a bunch of 
> USB errors being generated and replicated the failure of those USB 
> ports.  (I've kept a card reader that has a green light pugged into 
> one port so I can see when I've got problems...)  The tech had me 
> type reset-nvram and then reset-all which rebooted.  So far the 
> problem hasn't happened again.  I may take the monitor in anyway 
> since I have less than a week of AppleCare coverage left.  The tech 
> left and spoke to his manager about the problem and came back and 
> told me that it is very likely the display that is causing the 
> problem.  This is a known problem.  If you got AppleCare on the 
> display I'd take it in just in case.
> 
> Regards,
>                      Joey Kennedy.
> 

Thanks for the Information. I wonder to what extent the Apple solution 
applies to a 20 " non ADC connector LCD monitor. Anyway, I am not worried since I 
have 27 months left on my Apple Care coverage so I can afford to wait it out and 
see if the problem reoccurs. ,
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