Hmm. I've had that (or something very similar) happen since I got my Radeon 7000. I've seen Quake 3 do it, but it seems much more common in Mozilla. (maybe because it's almost always running?) In my case the screen goes a very coarse gray, and it looks like it's in the first few seconds of booting before the happy mac comes up. If I'm fortunate enough to have my Control Strip on my secondary monitor, I can just change the resolution or color depth on the afflicted display to some other setting and then back again, and all is well. If not, the vulcan death grip is the only option left, even MacsBug won't come up.
I'm not getting it too often, maybe once a week at the most, but I'd assumed all along that it was the video card (or it's drivers) crapping out. Never really thought to blame Mozilla, as I've seen just about every type of software failure you can imagine over the last fifteen years, but nothing even remotely like this one. --Bryan S-900 OS 9.1 272mb RAM 18.2gb UW SCSI (E-100) Radeon 7000 in slot 2 driving both at 1024x768/24-bit ATI "March 2002 Retail" drivers 8mb ixMicro TT unused in slot 4 Turn-ons include: Power switch on the keyboard, button on front of case. (Sorry, couldn't resist!) Steve Johnson wrote: > I installed Netscape 6.2 on an S900 (196 mb ram, ixm TT video, 9 gb > u/w scsi), and it ran great for a few weeks, but now... > > Every time I fire it up (nothing besides the finder running), > anywhere from a minute to an hour into it I lose video, getting a > black screen with an "out of scan range" message from the monitor. > Nothing seems very crashed, as I can restart from the keyboard. No > other apps have cause this monitor/video failure, and I'm completely > at a loss as to why this is happening. > > Help ? Ideas ? > -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL SM LIST PRICES - 24x Bootable SCSI CDROM $39.99, Umax Processors $19.99 PowerSupplies from C500/C600 $49.99 J700/S900 $79.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
