Really, Really STRANGE 15" display problem.

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The Doood

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Alright people this is a curly one for you all, you may need you use you imagination.

Would love to find a fix but i guess the more important question is has this ever happened before

I'm running OS X 10.4.4 on a 15" Powerbook and two days ago while I was at work using Photoshop CS and without touching anything a strange, seemingly irreversible phenomena occurred. You'll have to bare with me while i try and describe it, close your eyes if you will.

This is what my display does now,

I Boot, display is fine and normal running at 1280 X 854 res, for the first 2-3 seconds then if you can imagine, in one fluid motion the display becomes about 2-3 cm larger all round the 15" screen AND MOVES ACCORDINGLY TO THE MOTION OF THE MOUSE, FLUIDLY!! This means that the display is 100% accessable but it's constantly moving, makes me sea-sick.

I created anouther user account and logged into that and it doesn't happen, is there somewhere I can reset the display setting or fix bugs for a particular user.

I've included a diogram to give you an idea of what's going on.

Apple won't help me (Suprise) and my technician can't put his finger on it over the phone.

THANKS TO ANYONE WHO CAN HELP!
 

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Sounds as if you've somehow activated Zoom (if you were using Photoshop, perhaps a mispressed keyboard shortcut). It's an Accesability feature built in for the vision impaired. You can turn it off by pressing Command (apple key)+Option+8 on your keyboard, or opening System Preferences, clicking on Universal Access, then turning off Zoom.
 
You got it, was the zoom feature.

Now, why couldn't apple center tell me that over the phone, instead redirect me to apple care and ask for money to fix it...

Love my Powerbook, Hate Apple constantly squeezing my testicals.

Cheers,

The Doood out
 
Sadly, Apple is getting too big for their trendy little britches. You see it when you need help in an Apple Store, and you get run around in India with Applecare. It's terrible, and I hope they do something about it soon.

Until then, I guess that's why we're here at macosx.com
 
that is quite silly, because i also knew without even reading the whole post that you had the Universal Access Zoom turned on.
 
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