On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Check out the power switch area. There may be a short circuit. While it is possible you have inadvertently setup some sort of software loop creating this problem it seems unlikely you would not be aware of making a change to an auto startup / shutdown sequence. Also booting from the other disk image ( I just re-read the description) would preclude that sort of cause. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
