[Ti] Faint horizontal white lines and dots

[Bob Fowles]

Rather than re-installing, you could use SuperDuper or CCC to ceate a 
bootable clone on an exernal HD, erase your internal HD, reformat, 
and then restore the clone. I've done that  a couple of times for 
different reasons.

Bob Fowles

At 12:46 PM -0700 6/26/06, Timothy D. Naegele wrote:
>Geniuses:
>
>My Ti 800 came back from Apple in Houston on May 26, after having been
>there twice in about a week, with the HD being replaced twice and
>other parts being replaced as well (e.g., the inverter board, Combo
>drive).  It has been running like a champ-truly like a new
>computer-especially with Tiger installed.
>
>However, shortly after it came back, and again this morning, faint
>horizontal white lines and dots showed up on the screen, which
>degraded photos, Word .docs and the entire screen, although the
>applications still ran fine.  In both instances, the faint white lines
>and dots stayed on the screen momentarily, and then were gone after I
>rebooted the computer.  I launched Disk Utility from the installer CD
>this morning, and under the category "Checking Extended Attributes
>file," the following message appeared:
>
>
>"Invalid leaf record count
>(It should be 0 instead of 54)"
>
>
>At the bottom of the First Aid screen (aka Disk Utility), the
>following appeared:
>
>
>"Repair attempted on 2 volumes
>     1 HFS volume repaired
>     1 volume could not be repaired"
>
>
>Based on this, I called Apple and one of its PowerBook specialists
>concluded that I had a software corruption of the HD, and that the HD
>needed to be erased and all applications and files reinstalled, to see
>if that would solve the problem.  Having had two HDs replaced, and
>just having gone through the reinstallation of everything, needless to
>say that was not music to my ears.
>
>In more than 10 years of owning PowerBooks, I have never had this
>issue happen.  Does anyone have any bright ideas?
>
>Thanks as always,
>
>Tim Naegele
>www.naegele.com
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