My 7B85 Menu Bar is blank on the right side: no date/time and no icons

llyrwy

llyrwy

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I installed 7B85 on my 17" Powerbook G4 with 1 gig RAM. This was a clean installation. I had formatted the hard drive before installing. Everything was fresh, including the user account.,

My problem is the right side of my menu bar is blank. It is supposed to have date/time, bluetooth, volume, user account and other indicators.

I have attempt to configure the menu bar to show date/time in system preferences, but discovered that whatever preferences I tick will keep reverting to an empty box with no tick.

Is this a bug or is it just me?
 
hmmmm, sounds like a bug to me. But more related to your version of 7B85. Never heard about this before, so maybe you got a bad copy there?
 
How did you install 7B85? Did you do a clean install? Archive and install? Did you install over 10.2 installation? Do you have two concurrent installations?

Since you're using 7B85, I'm going to assume that your computer is not a mission-critical piece of equipment since you're using pre-release software on it. I would suggest doing a complete re-format and clean install and see if that fixes it. Or perhaps wait a week and purchase the retail version, which, I'm sure, will not have that problem.
 
I have exactly the same problem. Really need help here. Could it be a Singapore only problem???
 
No offense, but if you 'really need help' this sounds like you installed it on an important computer. Which is dumb :(
Wait until tomorrow and then you can get the real version.
 
dlloyd said:
No offense, but if you 'really need help' this sounds like you installed it on an important computer. Which is dumb :(
Wait until tomorrow and then you can get the real version.
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As a matter of fact, it is a genuine bug, and it only happens to Apple fans in Singapore :eek:

Go ahead and Choose "Singapore" as the region in INTERNATIONAL/FORMATS", and all your icons will disappear.

To resolve it, just customize the time format. If you look close, the bug is due to the format for SG, which is strangely "AM 12:00".

Glad to be of help to a fellow Singaporean.


:p
 
Problem fixed! Thanks mtech!

It is true this is a problem unique to a Singapore configuration.

The apple retailer I called seemed really bored to heear of this problem, I can only guess he has received a large number of calls concerning this.

In fact, when I went down to the city centre to buy my copy of panther yesterday, there were quite a number of macs on display which did not have menulets! hee hee. They must have been installed in a hurry.

Regards
 
llyrwy said:
Problem fixed! Thanks mtech!

It is true this is a problem unique to a Singapore configuration.

The apple retailer I called seemed really bored to heear of this problem, I can only guess he has received a large number of calls concerning this.

In fact, when I went down to the city centre to buy my copy of panther yesterday, there were quite a number of macs on display which did not have menulets! hee hee. They must have been installed in a hurry.

Regards
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Yes, it was really frustrating, this bug. At first I thought I had faulty CDs. In total I installed 3 times, thinking that it was hardware fault. I spent 3 days searching the net for a solution and turned up nothing. Anyway, it was a lucky break to discover this. I must have been the first to uncover this. How to go about informing Apple?? I have posted something in their web site forum.
 
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