I have a G5 running 10.5.8 with two 23" cinema displays attached. Or I did. Yesterday one of the two displays just suddenly went dark, like blowing out a candle. Nothing I could do would bring it back, so I have to assume it's dead and gone. (If anyone has any thoughts about why this happened, I'd love to hear them, but that's not the problem I'm having right now.)
I disconnected the dead monitor and all its cables from the Mac. There is now only one monitor attached to the Mac. However, the Mac still thinks there are two monitors attached to it. In the System Prefs panel for Displays, under the Arrange tab, it still shows a small (imaginary) monitor beside the large (real) one. It lets me arrange this little imaginary monitor anywhere I want to around the big one, but the little monitor doesn't really exist. Yet the Mac acts like it does. When I open some windows, they go off the visible screen and open somewhere on the invisible one, on the non-existent monitor, and I can't get at them. I've tried everything I know to get rid of this second, invisible monitor: I repaired the permissions with Disk Utility, threw away the System prefs, logged in as a different account, did a Safe Boot, and even ran Disk Warrior through the disk. I tried attaching the monitor's connector to the other of the two video ports. Nothing makes any difference. Every time I go to the Monitors panel, it still shows a small, nonexistent monitor next to the real one, and windows still keep opening offscreen, on what the Mac thinks is another monitor. Any ideas how I can convince this Mac that it only has one monitor attached to it? Tom -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
