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Snow Leopard and dual-link DVI adapter problems ...

  • Improved in Snow Leopard, no flickering, fuzzy screens

    Votes: 1 50.0%
  • Stayed the same after Snow Leopard

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Got worse

    Votes: 1 50.0%
  • Other, please comment

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    2

jedijoe

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Oct 13, 2005
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Boulder, CO
Macbook Pro 17-inch, using 9600M GT, Apple 30" Cinema Display and the mini-displayport to dual-link dvi adapter.

I figured Snow Leopard might finally bring a fix to these issues, but no. In fact, its happening to me more often now. Attached are some still camera shots of my monitor after screensaver is active for 30 minutes or so. When I come back to the computer, this what I am looking at. Reboot, if possible, is the only fix.

I've tried reseting, PRAM, SMC, Repair Permissions, etc, etc. All that crap. I've tried putting the computer to sleep and awake it in an attempt to by-pass the reboot but that just leaves the monitor forever black and remote login via SSH to reboot is the only option then.

Interesting to note, some people have been seeing newer firmware versions on the dual-link adapter. Mine is v1.01 and in the online USA Apple Store comments for this product some are saying they received v1.02 firmware on their adapter. Anyone have any luck with the v1.02 firmware? It seems its not downloadable from Apple support anywhere unfortunately.
 

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