I have posted this issue on the apple discussion boards and macosxhints.com and not reached any resolve. I hope somebody here can shed some light on this.
I have a G4 Digital Audio Dual 533 with 768MB RAM.
When I install 10.4, everything works perfectly. As soon as I update the OS (to any version. I have downloaded and tested all of the stand alone versions of the updates 10.4.1 - 10.4.6), all of this craziness begins.
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfkwph.jpg - Black areas in web browser
http://i2.tinypic.com/smf5na.jpg - More black areas on OS X support site. Notice that there is no border image around the content.
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfkx2f.jpg - Color labels are all black
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfkxad.jpg - Text lines missing from web browser.
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfl4d4.png - widgets turned black
http://i2.tinypic.com/smf6vk.jpg - dock sitting off to the left.
http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=sfl0le - vid of dock jumping back and forth
Thanks for any help and insight you can offer,
Steve
I have a G4 Digital Audio Dual 533 with 768MB RAM.
When I install 10.4, everything works perfectly. As soon as I update the OS (to any version. I have downloaded and tested all of the stand alone versions of the updates 10.4.1 - 10.4.6), all of this craziness begins.
- The dock begins to bounce to the left and back whenever I roll the mouse over it.
- Dock icons 'pulsate' just a little while I am hovering over them.
- When I right click on a file, the color labels are all black
- Opening websites with any browser results in a lot of page elements completely replaced by black space.
- Some text in Finder and any web browser is missing until I highlight where that text should be.
- iPhoto completely screws up the colors of my photos. Some get turned to negatives, some get different color profiles....
- My Desktop picture is suddenly 99% Black
- Widgets like iStatPro are all black also.
- Created a new user with admin rights and logged in as said user. Same results
- Safe Boot. No dice. Same results
- Swapped video card with a known good video card
- Swapped RAM with known good RAM
- Tested each RAM chip independently.
- Repaired disk permissions using Disk Utility
- Cleaned Caches and Repaired permissions with OnyX, Cache Out X, Cocktail and Tiger Cache Cleaner.
- Zapped PRAM
- Ran TechTool Pro (and passed!)
- Reinitialized Launch Services.
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfkwph.jpg - Black areas in web browser
http://i2.tinypic.com/smf5na.jpg - More black areas on OS X support site. Notice that there is no border image around the content.
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfkx2f.jpg - Color labels are all black
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfkxad.jpg - Text lines missing from web browser.
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfl4d4.png - widgets turned black
http://i2.tinypic.com/smf6vk.jpg - dock sitting off to the left.
http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=sfl0le - vid of dock jumping back and forth
Thanks for any help and insight you can offer,
Steve