[HM] screen goes dark and never comes back

[Alexia Johnston]

both my daughter and I have this problem but we are just unplugging 
computer and starting it up again.  Lexi
On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 08:08 PM, Chris Beamis wrote:

> I'm going to post this to multiple Mac lists so apologies in advance 
> to those of us
> signed up to more than one of them.
>
> 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.
>
>   It has been fairly annoying so far but I'm now getting a lot more 
> annoyed because
> it seems to happen more frequently.  It just now did it to me in the 
> middle of a
> long compile, so I had to let the machine sit for a while in the hopes 
> that the
> compile was still going.  I eventually pressed the power button, and 
> upon getting
> back in discovered that the compile had not finished, not that I could 
> tell
> before rebooting.
>
> Any ideas whats wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Beamis
>
>