On Nov 21, 2008, at 12:37 AM, insightinmind wrote:
> > > On Nov 21, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Bob wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> My Quicksilver 2002 (upgraded to 1.8 GHz, 160 Gb HD, ATI Radeon 64 Mb >> Video, Leopard, 10.5.5) has started acting really weird. >> >> - It starts up by itself in the middle of the night. >> >> - The monitor blacks out every minute, and then comes on about 4 >> seconds later. >> >> I've tried booting off another image, and the same thing happens, and >> I've tried swapping video cards but it keeps doing it. >> >> I've connected the monitor to my PC (Yechh!), and that works fine >> (AArrgh!) all the time, so I don't thuink its the monitor. >> >> I haven't checked the PRAM battery, but it was replaced in July '08, >> so I suspect it should be OK. >> >> All suggestions (except getting another Mac) welcome. >> >> Bob > > > Could you try another video card in the QS? Reset PRAM? > > I have a QS 2002 ... but it hasn't misbehaved like that ... original > Dual 1GHz, 10.5.5, but an ATI Radeon 9800Pro Mac Edition. > > You just do the Quicktime update? needs to restart to finish the > install? is that what its trying to do? > > Guessing. After sleeping on the question ... Apologies ... I re-read your post and see you tried swapping out video cards. Did you also do the reset of PRAM? I assume you shut down completely as well. What other PCI cards are installed? something that might be known to have trouble waking from sleep mode? There have been 3 updates to Leopard recently: Safari, Quicktime and iTunes ... in that order I believe. Any electrical storms? surges? Do you have a cat? maybe a new housemate such as a mouse? that perhaps crawled across the keyboard? Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
