Screen sparkling and distortion issues

[tucker3434]

I was using safari and my screen locked up. Large areas got distorted and little (maybe 1/8" blocks) started flickering all over the screen. It wouldn't recognize any input from my keyboard or mouse. This really scares me for a number of reasons: I wasn't doing anything very difficult to cause the crash, The computer has basically nothing on it, and the reason I bought a mac was for its stability. I head back to school tomorrow (read: I head far away from a mac store), and I need to know if I should go by the mac store before I leave. It's a 27" i5 if that makes any difference.

[Bitwise]

I was using safari and my screen locked up. Large areas got distorted and little (maybe 1/8" blocks) started flickering all over the screen. It wouldn't recognize any input from my keyboard or mouse. This really scares me for a number of reasons: I wasn't doing anything very difficult to cause the crash, The computer has basically nothing on it, and the reason I bought a mac was for its stability. I head back to school tomorrow (read: I head far away from a mac store), and I need to know if I should go by the mac store before I leave. It's a 27" i5 if that makes any difference.

Is this the issue you're experiencing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVHCn9VSyIA

Take it back and exchange it for a new one. The only problem with exchanging it is that you might end up getting one of the iMacs with the yellow tinge or screen flickering (I'm on my fourth yellow tinge iMac). If you have another computer then I'd just return it and wait until Apple resolves these issues, otherwise I'd exchange it and hope for the best. You can always have it repaired in the future.

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what a joke....

[tucker3434]

Is this the issue you're experiencing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVHCn9VSyIA

Take it back and exchange it for a new one. The only problem with exchanging it is that you might end up getting one of the iMacs with the yellow tinge or screen flickering (I'm on my fourth yellow tinge iMac). If you have another computer then I'd just return it and wait until Apple resolves these issues, otherwise I'd exchange it and hope for the best. You can always have it repaired in the future.

That's exactly what's happening. Will this be a recurring problem? Could this be a bad video card?

[bobob]

Screen sparkling issues

You weren't by chance watching a Twilight DVD, were you?

[tucker3434]

I frickin hate vampires...

[J&JPolangin]

I frickin hate vampires...

...huh?

[tucker3434]

It was a response to the twilight comment.

[bobob]

...huh?

He was politely responding to my Twilight quip.

[ljonesj]

just for a test get the smcfan control program and raise ur fans up a couple of notches and see what happens as it might be a vid card heat issue that what makes think part of the flickering some have could eb caused by besides a bad vid panel

[tucker3434]

just for a test get the smcfan control program and raise ur fans up a couple of notches and see what happens as it might be a vid card heat issue that what makes think part of the flickering some have could eb caused by besides a bad vid panel

I swapped it today just in case. Hopefully I'll never see it again.

[tkboss88]

i'm a vampire. do u hate me? :mad: rarr

[Bitwise]

I swapped it today just in case. Hopefully I'll never see it again.

I doubt you'll see it again. Your issue is pretty rare from what I understand. The most common issue seems to be the yellow tinge.

[Ecoh]

I have seen it twice on my 27" i7. Both times I had just used a third party plugin filter in CS4. I can live without that filter.