I can boot 9, but I have no way to make it recreate the problem, it just happens. Plus I'm a mac newb and only know OSX at this point, plus all my apps are OSX apps, so I wouldn't want to stay in 9 for a full day or two to see if it happens.
My brightness adjustment does work over the whole range. Rad... On 4/14/04 11:17 PM, "Paul Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you boot OS-9. If you can, see if it happens in 9. It may be > softwaqre or hardware, but if it happens in 9 too, chances are slim it > is hardware. > > Does the brightness adjustment seem to work over its whole range? > > You may have a fault in the fluorescent lamp power supply that > illuminates the screen. > > Paul > > On Apr 14, 2004, at 7:00 PM, Rad Craig wrote: > >> I have a 292mhz Wallstreet. Occasionally, the screen just goes >> blank...and >> I don't mean sleeping. When its sleeping, the little power light >> flashes, >> but when it does this, the power light doesn't flash. >> >> When it does this, I can't get it to come back on (the screen), but I >> know >> things are going on as it still makes all the sounds and such. I used >> to do >> a forced reset, but today I pressed the power button once, heard the >> hard >> drive rattle, so I was assuming it was the 'are you sure you want to >> shutdown' message, hit the left arrow key and then <enter> and it did >> in >> fact shut down, so at least I don't have to hard reset it anymore. >> >> Anyway, does anyone know what causes this, for the screen to just go >> blank >> and not come back? After it reboots, it's fine. But it seems to do >> this >> about every other day and is kind of annoying. Sometimes it's after I >> have >> closed it and it goes to sleep, then later I will open it up, hit the >> spacebar and nothing...sometimes it works fine and wakes up. >> >> Today, I had just woken it up from sleep, looked away for a minute, >> looked >> back and it was blank again...hit the spacebar, nothing. >> >> Any ideas or suggestions? I'm running OS X.2.8. With 512Mb RAM. >> >> >> Rad... > -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
