[G4] Monitor Blinking

[Anne Keller-Smith]

OK - I'm doing a little troubleshooting as we go along. Prolly should 
have checked Apple Support on the web first.

Anyway, when the display power light flashes, there will be a pattern 
indicating what's wrong. I don't remember the pattern, so will have to 
wait until next time the problem manifests. What's different with my 
monitor is that the WHOLE DISPLAY flashed on-off, not just the power 
light. It's back on, now and not showing any difficulties.

A number of folks in the Apple Studio Display 17" LCD Forum have the 
blinky power light problem, and it seems to usually indicate an 
inverter gone bad (whatever the heck that is). You can evidently 
replace this for about $100 yourself.

Let me revise my post to

Anyone else have a problem like this? What was it?

On Sunday, August 6, 2006, at 05:35 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

> 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
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Anne Keller Smith
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