| Tuesday, December 2, 2003 |
18:07 - Black Screen of Frustration
http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?13@45.Uke5a9ZSlC2.0@.5998b323
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Think Secret has found the area of Apple's support forums where a veritable herd of G5 owners are reporting the very same mysterious screen-goes-black issue that's been plaguing me off and on ever since I got my new machine. Or possibly it's the same problem; most of these guys are talking about issues with the screen staying black as you boot the machine, and the problem gets worse and worse with time. I've only seen it happen when starting the full-screen visualizer in iTunes. But then, I also hardly ever reboot, so my usage profile is probably considerably different than that of most people. (Man, it's been a long time since I bothered turning off my machine.)
So far there's no official statement from Apple, though there's word of a G5 firmware update to address an "incompatibility" between the G5's Radeon cards and the Apple monitors. There's nothing for sure yet, though-- still no consensus even on what exactly causes the problem to manifest.
I'll be watching the usual sites fairly intently, to say nothing of this one.
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Brian Tiemann
