Hey Ward, Thanks for responding. Here is a followup in case anyone is interested. I got to Apples support area for displays, on another computer, and it said to do a safe boot startup via holding down the shift key IMMEDIATELY after the chime and not before, and release it when the grey screen and spinning gear appear. After the startup is finished, go into the preference pane and change the resolution setting back to one that is recommended. Then restart. This worked once, then failed to work after another restart. I took your advice and did a PRAM zap, which caused the unit to start up in OS 9. I remembered seeing another fix on the apple support page that was for OS 10 thru 10.1.5, that said if you could start up in OS9, go into the OS X pref file, in the Home-Library folder, and trash the "com.apple.windowserver.plist", then restart in OS X. This seems to have worked, even though I'm running 10.3.3. I need to preface all this by mentioning that the support site said this was caused by selecting a non supported resolution setting and not to deselect the check box in the preference pane. But I have no such check box in the display pref pane for my 17" display, so thats why I was suprised that this whole problem occured in the first place. Thanks again for your help, I'll let you know how the next restart goes. Also, I couldn't find any useful info on the ATI web site for this problem. Mike Robertson
-----Original Message----- From: Ward Oldham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Apr 10, 2004 7:52 PM To: MUG <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> Subject: Re: MacGroup: Blank Display Hi Mike, Try zapping PRAM before anything else. You accomplish this by restarting your Mac and immediately hold down the Cmd+Option+P+R. Keep them held down until you hear your start up tones at least 3 times, then release the keys and let it continue to boot normally. Hopefully you?ll have video back. Ward Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us From: Mike Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:51:06 -0500 (GMT-05:00) To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> Subject: MacGroup: Blank Display Hey Group, I was changing the resolution setting for my 17" flat panel apple display, and it went blank, and I can't figure out how to get it to come back. I am using a G4, running 10.3.3. It is connected to a Radeon 7000 card, with a DVI to ADC converter. Should I reinstall the 10.3 OS? It works when I start up from the OS disk. Thanks for any help. Mike Robertson | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
