Hi,
Hopefully someone else will already have come across this problem and save me tearing the rest of my hair out!
One of our Mac user's Apple Cinema display appeared to be faulty. The whole screen looked very contrasty and graduated tints were blocky in appearance, rather than smooth. Tried replacing the screen with a known good one. Re-calibrating the screen in Preferences Display made no difference either. Set colours to millions, res to 1900 x 1200 etc. I even swapped out the graphics card from another machine - still no change.
Conclusion was that either the screen was on it's way out or there's a motherboard or slot problem. Anyway, when I incidently logged the user out and logged in as Admin, all of a sudden the display was perfect. Logged back in as the user, problem returned.
So, I then go through his prefs and remove anything that looked remotely to do with screen settings - no change. Repaired permissions on the HD - no change. I've now fiddled for hours and can think of nothing else to try, short of re-installing everything (pleeeeeease, Noooooo!).
It's a G5 running Panther 10.3.9. Could I try recreating the user's account, without having to re-install all his apps and settings?
Any suggestions please anyone? It must be something like a prefs or profile thing, but I haven't a clue what.
Thanks.
Hopefully someone else will already have come across this problem and save me tearing the rest of my hair out!
One of our Mac user's Apple Cinema display appeared to be faulty. The whole screen looked very contrasty and graduated tints were blocky in appearance, rather than smooth. Tried replacing the screen with a known good one. Re-calibrating the screen in Preferences Display made no difference either. Set colours to millions, res to 1900 x 1200 etc. I even swapped out the graphics card from another machine - still no change.
Conclusion was that either the screen was on it's way out or there's a motherboard or slot problem. Anyway, when I incidently logged the user out and logged in as Admin, all of a sudden the display was perfect. Logged back in as the user, problem returned.
So, I then go through his prefs and remove anything that looked remotely to do with screen settings - no change. Repaired permissions on the HD - no change. I've now fiddled for hours and can think of nothing else to try, short of re-installing everything (pleeeeeease, Noooooo!).
It's a G5 running Panther 10.3.9. Could I try recreating the user's account, without having to re-install all his apps and settings?
Any suggestions please anyone? It must be something like a prefs or profile thing, but I haven't a clue what.
Thanks.