Il giorno 22/06/13 10.35, "Tom" ha scritto: > Yesterday one of the two displays just suddenly went dark, like blowing out > a candle. LCD monitors (and many electronics devices built around 2003-2005) suffer from the "bad capacitors plague": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
You can google "23 cinema display capacitors" and see if some page helps you troubleshooting your problem. > I disconnected the dead monitor and all its cables from the Mac. Are you sure there's no adapter still connected to the video card? It may trick the card into thinking a monitor is still there. > 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. Using the display menulet (the icon on the top menu bar), can you change the resolution of the "ghost" monitor, to a smaller one? This way, windows opening there might be still visible on the main monitor and movable. That's the best that I can think of right now. :-) Of course, if you have a real, working second monitor around, you might connect that one, moving the new windows onto your main screen, and disconnect it to see if the problem goes away. If you have a friend nearby with a lousy PC, this may be the time the PC turns out useful. ;-) -- -- 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.
