Power Failure Caused Video Problems ....

[vja4Him]

Power Failure Caused Video Problems ....

Yesterday our neighbor was messing around with the circuit breakers and cut the power to our dining room, which turned off my external HD.

I can still boot from the external HD, but there is a serious video problem now. I'm still online with the external HD, but having visual difficulty with certain things (buttons, links, scroll tabs, and pictures are really bad quality, e-mail hard to see ...).

I can still boot from the internal HD (iBook G4), and the video is just fine. So the problem doesn't seem to be with the iBook's video card.

I reinstalled Tiger (10.4) on the external HD, but still have the same problem.

I ran Disk Warrior and Disk Utility, but still have the same problem.

Any ideas what might be the problem, and how to fix it?

 

[djackmac]

Try to set the resolution exactly as is set on the internal and see if there is a change.

 

[vja4Him]

Try to set the resolution exactly as is set on the internal and see if there is a change.

I've tried all the different settings in System Preferences, and still no luck.

 

[vja4Him]

Strangest thing happened today .... I pressed Escape and the video on my iBook is back to normal ... !!!

Why would the video have been messed up, and I only needed to press Escape to get the video back to normal ... ???