Help! -- menu bar malfunction

[mikefly]

Hi all,

Hard Drive failed, and had to reinstall everything. Apple took good care of me, and many props to them.

When using finder, my menu bar is fine -- when I use any other app, it shrinks to half its height, and i get the desktop image for half the height.

How can I fix this?

grab below and also at http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...soyKntpkbONtyg

 

[maclover001]

Safari looks alot better in Tiger than in Leopard 🙁

Did you install all system updates? Seems like the graphics driver is screwed up.

 

[mikefly]

hm

eenteresting..

After I reinstalled, I did a software update of everything... but apparently not - strange.

So, I'm currently d/ling a 200 MB update (java, qt, airport, migration, security)

maybe one of those will help...

will advise once update is finished.

Thanks!

 

[maclover001]

Anytime.

Something similar once happened with my old Vista PC. Half of the wallpaper was just black and only half of the taskbar was showing. A simple driver update fixed it.

Then it came back a week later. Thats when I bought the MacBook 😀

 

[mikefly]

..

cool, software update done, and all seems well with the world - easy cure.

I wonder why I only got a partial software update the first time round.

Thanks for the help.

 

[yoyo5280]

ever considered buying leopard? or are you waiting for snow leopard?

 

[mikefly]

..

nope. and nope.

will upgrade OS if it becomes necessary - so far, tiger does all i need it to, and generally pretty well.

 

[maclover001]

cool, software update done, and all seems well with the world - easy cure.

I wonder why I only got a partial software update the first time round.

Thanks for the help.

You're welcome 🙂