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From: Peter on 2 Jul 2010 09:55 There was a driver update for ATI cards in 10.6.3. That's where I first noticed the problems so I'm going to revert to 10.6.2 via the disk and combo updater. If the glitches are gone, problem solved. For now. I'll report back. Pete.
From: Peter on 2 Jul 2010 09:56 >> > > Are you trying to trick him into searching under "carpet burn" in order > to find out more? > > ;-) Seeing as my iMac is a sealed unit, I can't see how any of my carpet activities could get in there ;-) Pete.
From: Jim on 2 Jul 2010 09:59 On 2010-07-02, Peter Badrick <Peter> wrote: >>> I am getting strange graphical glitches on my screen from time to time >>> in the form of a line or lines. There is a screen shot available here: >>> http://www.badrick.plus.com/glitch.jpg >> >> I can't help much with the problem (although it does feel rather like a >> graphics card that's about to fly south for the summer) but when I visit that >> link in Safari under XP I'm getting AVG popping up a threat alert for >> 'Exploit Rogue Scanner (type 1144)'. No idea what that is but I thought you >> might like to know. >> >> It's probably just AVG getting confused about something... >> > > I can assure you that there is nothing to worry about with that link. > Probably just AVG. I've just checked it with my Windoze laptop running > Avast and its clean. Right-o, thanks. Just thought it might be best to check. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: D.M. Procida on 2 Jul 2010 10:03 <Peter> wrote: > OK, my entire screen just did a "white out" and the whole machine died. > Hopefully I can get iStatPro installed this time to check temps. > > Hope its not on its way out as I can't afford another Mac and would > hate to have to go back to Windoze It's quite possible that it's dusty inside and over-heating. I'd open it up and blow some compressed air into it from a can. I haven't taken apart that model so I don't know how easy that is. Still, you can blow air into the vents without dismantling it. You can also use a fan control program to run the fans at full blast to blow out some dust. Putting it into FireWire target disk mode might also achieve this. Daniele
From: Jim on 2 Jul 2010 10:12
On 2010-07-02, D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: ><Peter> wrote: > >> OK, my entire screen just did a "white out" and the whole machine died. >> Hopefully I can get iStatPro installed this time to check temps. >> >> Hope its not on its way out as I can't afford another Mac and would >> hate to have to go back to Windoze > > It's quite possible that it's dusty inside and over-heating. > > I'd open it up and blow some compressed air into it from a can. I > haven't taken apart that model so I don't know how easy that is. Still, > you can blow air into the vents without dismantling it. > > You can also use a fan control program to run the fans at full blast to > blow out some dust. Putting it into FireWire target disk mode might also > achieve this. Using compressed air cans can sometimes not be a good idea - if you get them too close to the motherboard you can supercool bits of it briefly, of so I've heard. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett |