[X-HW] Weird 15" LCD display problem

[Michael W. Sumbera]

Did you look in the System Preferences to see what the Universal Access 
settings are?

A PRAM reset might be applicable if this weren't user specific.


On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 08:56  AM, Jacob Alifrangis wrote:

> Zap the p-ram
>
> Command-option-p+r on the next reboot after the chime.
>
>
> Might clear it up
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mac OS X Hardware [mailto:X-Hardware at lists.themacintoshguy.com] 
> On
> Behalf Of Jim Robertson
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:46 AM
> To: Mac OS X Hardware
>
> My son has a 450 MHz Sawtooth G4 with the standard AGP video card 
> (Rage 128
> Pro). Yesterday his monitor image suddenly inverted (looks like a b/w 
> or
> color negative, depending on how he sets preferences for the monitor). 
> This
> must be a software issue, because the image is normal if he logs out 
> and
> remains normal if another user logs in (OS X 10.2.5). I did a quick 
> search
> in the support section of Apple's website and couldn't find anything 
> that
> addresses this. Playing with the brightness settings for the monitor 
> works
> but doesn't revert the image to normal when he's the logged-in user.
>
> Is this a preferences corruption of some sort?
>
> One possible clue: he says he "might" have inadvertently tapped one of 
> the
> keyboard's F-keys just before this happened. However, we don't have any
> add-on software loaded that does things with the F-keys.
>
> Thanks so much for any/all suggestions.
>
> Jim Robertson
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