Someone handed a 350Mhz iMac over to me last week. I was hoping to
install Panther on it and give it as a Christmas present to my niece.
128 MB is low for Panther, but I thought it would be fine for a 10 year
old. Only problem is (and I should have known this) you don't get
anything for free. Turns out there's a video issue, the screen gets
vertical lines of "stationary static" (my own term). Sometimes very
little, sometimes to the point were you can't see anything. Installing
Panther (with the firmware update) didn't help. Starting from a system
9 disc didn't make a difference. Zapping the PRAM repeatedly didn't
help. Reducing the resolution helped, but only setting the colors at
256 keeps it from happening. Of note, quicktime movies seem to play
fine. Does anyone know what the problem might be, and how to fix it. I
have some ideas of my own, but I want to be as certain as possible
before I start buying parts off Ebay and dismantling this thing.
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