Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread JohnV
PPC G5 tower. osx 10.4.11 no problems This morning, right now, the image on screen is bizarre... If a finder window comes up, I can see though the text and if I move the window around, elements of the pixel image stay put -AND- move -AND leave trails and the window bevocomes oddly worn-loo

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread Dan
At 12:17 PM -0500 11/23/2011, JohnV wrote: PPC G5 tower. osx 10.4.11 no problems This morning, right now, the image on screen is bizarre... If a finder window comes up, I can see though the text and if I move the window around, elements of the pixel image stay put -AND- move -AND leave trails

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread JohnV
thanks Dan. just reset the PRAM and pulled the power cord on the box for 60sec. no joy. this machine -was- physically MOVED for the first time in years, over the weekend. From wha you;re reccomending and what little I found on line about this symptom, the 'resaet connections" thing resonates.

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread JohnV
re-seating the PRam didn;t change anything. shut it all down, disconnected and reconnected the monitor connections. tried 3 times to boot in SAFE (hold-shift-on-boot) mode. first two hung on Empty Blue-gray Screen 3rd got me up and looking ok. not my screen-color-balance preference, but wor

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread Dan
At 12:54 PM -0500 11/23/2011, JohnV wrote: though how do I reseat EVERYTHING inside teh tower? Keep it simple. One thing at a time. Just reseat the video card. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a g

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread JohnV
will do... thanks John (Keepin Simple) Vengrouskie On Nov 23, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Dan wrote: At 12:54 PM -0500 11/23/2011, JohnV wrote: though how do I reseat EVERYTHING inside teh tower? Keep it simple. One thing at a time. Just reseat the video card. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus