Hey guys, this problem has been stumping me for a couple months now.
At random times, my powerbook's screen goes fuzzy. I can try to explain, but it's better to just look at a screenshot:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/wefrucar/screencapture-fuzzy.jpg
It tends to do this after I've left my computer asleep for a long time. It sometimes help if I use Expose to move the screen around.
In all cases, the problem fixes itself after a few minutes.
It's just really inconvenient, because during that time, it's really hard (and occasionally impossible) to see what's going on on my computer.
There are only three things I can think of that may be the problem:
a) Something about the VRAM, but I don't know how I would verify or fix this.
b) The problem did start about a week after I installed new ram into my computer, but I think this may be coincidence, because I'm pretty sure it was reliable ram.
c) There's dust in my powerbook. I don't know if this is a common problem, or how to clean it (I don't have the proper tools to open up my powerbook). But my computer IS almost three years old, so dust seems like a likely problem.
Aside from these possibilities, I have no idea what could be the problem. I've looked for so many answers on the internet but nothing seems to work! Any advice would be really appreciated!!
If it helps, it's a 1.25 GHz Powerbook G4, 15''. I installed a 1GB Kingston RAM chip.
Thanks a lot in advance!
At random times, my powerbook's screen goes fuzzy. I can try to explain, but it's better to just look at a screenshot:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/wefrucar/screencapture-fuzzy.jpg
It tends to do this after I've left my computer asleep for a long time. It sometimes help if I use Expose to move the screen around.
In all cases, the problem fixes itself after a few minutes.
It's just really inconvenient, because during that time, it's really hard (and occasionally impossible) to see what's going on on my computer.
There are only three things I can think of that may be the problem:
a) Something about the VRAM, but I don't know how I would verify or fix this.
b) The problem did start about a week after I installed new ram into my computer, but I think this may be coincidence, because I'm pretty sure it was reliable ram.
c) There's dust in my powerbook. I don't know if this is a common problem, or how to clean it (I don't have the proper tools to open up my powerbook). But my computer IS almost three years old, so dust seems like a likely problem.
Aside from these possibilities, I have no idea what could be the problem. I've looked for so many answers on the internet but nothing seems to work! Any advice would be really appreciated!!
If it helps, it's a 1.25 GHz Powerbook G4, 15''. I installed a 1GB Kingston RAM chip.
Thanks a lot in advance!
