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greeneo101

macrumors newbie
Original poster
May 28, 2004
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Hey, I've got an iBook G4 800Mhz 12" - often when I wake it up the screen will flick off quickly and come back with these weird 'glitchies' on it.

screenGlitchies.jpg


I can get them to go away simply by changing the desktop picture, but obviously it'd be nice if they didn't happen at all.

I had the extended desktop hack installed a while ago, but can't remember if it was doing this before then. Also I recently did a reformat and thought that would remove the screen spanning but it's still available in preferences. Is that because it's a firmware thing and reformats don't touch that?

Any ideas?

Thanks!
 

Dr. Dastardly

macrumors 65816
Jun 26, 2004
1,317
1
I live in a giant bucket!
My girlfriends iBook (same model) does the same thing. They go away after a while or when display is changed but like you its very disconcerting. Havn't taken it to Apple yet becasue of school and like I said before it is usable.

Anyone know what this is or experianceing the same thing?
 

greeneo101

macrumors newbie
Original poster
May 28, 2004
9
0
Did she ever use the extended desktop hack? Trying to see if that's at all related to it.
 

mkrishnan

Moderator emeritus
Jan 9, 2004
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Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Wow this is interesting... Especially because the glitches show up in a screen grab! :eek: I've never had it happen (same iBook), so I'm not sure I can help, but I am curious too. It almost seems like the vram in your video card is flaking out on power resume.....
 
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