At 12:48 AM +1200 06/27/2005, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
Need help here! Haven't got the replacement iMac ready yet...
My wife's 7220 (4400) developed a problem today after normal use &
shutdown. After some while it turned itself on. Twice she shut it
back down (from the menu) and twice it turned itself back on.
Disbelieving her, I shut it down again and after a couple of
minutes there was the startup chime, the power-button LED came on
and up came the startup screen.
Well, it the Power Manager that makes a Mac 'spontaneously' boot
(per the Energy Saver cdev settings). Either the data in the PRAM
(where the boot-at time is stored) has been corrupted accidentally,
or the battery is too week to maintain it. Try zapping the PRAM
and/or replacing the battery.
Well, the blue startup screen had faint dark mottlings, when the
claifornia poppy desktop picture came up the normal orange was
stained pink and red icons were also pink; along the right side of
the screen was a bright yellow-green suffusion, as if the screen
had been magnetized.
Anyone have a clue?
Dude, you're in the Twilight Zone.
You should expect such colors by now. :)
Hmmm... it's a nice AppleVision monitor... the 7220 is Twilight Zone,
though, certainly... the Windoze box you're having when you're not
having a Windoze box.
Try degausing?
Or, as I do on my 17", a good whack on each side with the flat'o'me'hand.
Repeat after me:
Spontaneous Startup is much better than Spontaneous Combustion.
Spontaneous Startup is much better than Spontaneous Combustion.
Spontaneous Startup is much better than Spontaneous Combustion.
Indeedie!!
If zapping the PRAM about 10 times doesn't help try switching the
keyboard and or the mouse.
Funny thing is, when I plugged it back into the mains the next day
all was normal. Go figure! I can't help but think the monitor
discoloration was not a coincidence (if the monitor itself was
failing I'd expect to lose eg the red as the electron guns die,
rather than the colors go patchy, with colors that shouldn't be there
- red - appearing).
Anyway I zapped the PRAM and rebuilt the destop (using the keys
command-control-restart to rebuild the desktop froze the cursor
twice, so had to rebuild using TechTool Lite).
Thanks, all!
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
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