Don't know about the striations, but in Panther when you go into System Settigns and change the Energy management, I thought Panther gave you the option to enable or disable screen shut down and hard drive going to sleep. I don't know if you've already tried this. I wonder if the iMac might be overheating being left on for so long. I really don't know enough about flat displays to know if this is true.
-----Original Message----- From: iMac List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 April 2004 3:38 AM To: iMac List Subject: Striations My PowerPC G4 (2.1) iMac - the upside-down pudding basin and flat screen on an articulated arm - has developed a problem since I installed OS-X 3, Panther - new installation from OS Disks, not up-grade. With Panther I continued my OS-9 practice of leaving the iMac connected to my Broadband supplier, more or less, all the time. With OS-9 the system worked OK. With OS-X the system "Sleeps" after some time and "Wakes up" on pressing the mouse button - EXCEPT - when I go to bed and come back some hours later. Then I find that the screen display has "broken up" into vertical striations. In the top third of the screen the icons can be seen although they are distorted by the overlay. In the bottom two-thirds the striations completely blot out the screen and the lower icons. The Dock, normally set to "Hide" does not reappear and, although I can move it to left or right only the first three/four icons - Finder, Safari, Mail can be seen so I cannot work out if I am still connected to my ISP. "System Preferences" comes up but I can only see the top third and attempts to get at the Startup Disk to test the machine by restarting is impossible - it is in the obliterated area. My only (?) resort is to "kill" and restart the machine with the On-Off button - not a procedure that I am happy with. Any suggestions? Frankoriol -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --------------------------------------------------------------- -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
