[P1] Ibook Display problem

[Larry Kollar]

On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 10:57 PM, Meg St. Clair wrote:

> A friend used my iBook to do a presentation. She hooked it up to a
> projector. All went well. Now, however, when the iBook starts up, 
> nothing
> appears on the screen most times. Once, I got the display to come up, 
> got
> part way into the start up, then the mouse froze and the screen slowly
> brightened from blue to white. Now, nothing.

I used mine with a projector last week. It worked fine, except that it 
would
reset the display to 800x600 when I plugged in the projector. Going into
System Preferences fixed it.

You don't have that option, obviously. Try zapping the PRAM. If that 
doesn't
help, boot into single-user mode (Cmd-S). When you get to the prompt, 
type
the following commands (I'm assuming your login ID is "meg"):

	cd /Users/meg
	mv Library Library.old
	reboot

What you're doing is getting all your Preferences out of the way. With 
any
luck, that will force the iBook to rebuild your video preferences. If 
*that*
doesn't work, I'm out of ideas. :-)

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