[X4U] Screen dimming on iMac G5

[Nick Scalise]

On Tuesday, June 21, 2005, at 12:38PM, Mark Des Cotes <mark at astroprinting.com> wrote:

>A colleague asked me to post this question to the list. He has a 17 
>inch, 1.8 GHz  iMac G5 with 1 GB of RAM running OS 10.4.1. He's having 
>a problem with his screen dimming. It started a couple of weeks ago 
>when it was just OS 10.4. When he'd put the computer to sleep he would 
>see the screen dim before shutting off. Then when he woke it, the 
>screen would remain dim. He was able to get the screen back to normal 
>by checking on the "Automatically reduce the brightness of the display 
>before display sleep", option (which was off), then turning it off 
>again. Now after the 10.4.1 update the screen remains dim all the time. 
>He says that when he starts up the computer  he gets a bright grey 
>screen with the apple logo, then it goes to blue, but then it dims 
>before the desktop appears and it remains that way. Anyone have any 
>suggestions?

Have him boot from the restore DVD to see if it happens then. If not, there may be a system software issue, which may require re-installation.

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Nick Scalise
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