[HM] Screen goes black

[John S. Baltutis]

On Tuesday, Apr 1, 2003, at 17:10 US/Pacific, Alexia Johnston wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>

Does the problem occur if you shut off/diable the sleep options? I don't
have any problems waking from screen effects, but I only sleep the display,
never the computer or HDs. G4 450 MP running 10.2.4/9.2.2 7/24, except for
restarts into the other OS.