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Thanks Jan. I already did what you suggested at some time and in some 
order. The second time booting also usually solves the problem, but it 
keeps coming back regularly, so I'm beginning to think a hardware 
problem, as you suggested, might be beginning to rear its ugly head.

Cheers, Bob

PS Een NL en een B die in het Engels converseren :-)

Bob Lowen
bob.lowen@...
On 04 Nov 2004, at 09:52, Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:

> On a fine day, 03-11-2004, Bob Lowen wrote:
>
>  >I am having a strange problem lately. G4 MDD twin proc 1.25GHz with
>  >MacOS9.2.2. At startup the screen will stay black. The computer goes
>  >through a fairly normal startup as far as I can tell (the lights on 
> the
>  >digi interfaces stop blinking and go to their correct setting as they
>  >should do after a minute or so) but I can't do anything because the
>  >screen is black (22 cinema display). After restarting once usually 
> the
>  >screen comes alive but all the maps, the trash and the controlstrip
>  >have changed location. They seem to think that the screen is much
>  >smaller and group themselves in the topleft quarter of the screen.
>  >
>  >Any ideas what might be causing this and how I can solve it?
>
>  Not sure what the specific cause of your problem is -- might be
>  anything from a simple corrupted preferences file to a serious
>  hardware failure.� However, I would start with the 'usual'
>  troubleshoot-stuff for OS9.� That is: rebuild the desktop (restart,
>  and press Command-Option just before the Finder appears), zap PRAM
>  (hold Command-Option-P-R while booting the Mac).� If that doesn't
>  work, trash the Finder preferences, trash the Monitors preferences.
>  However, the fact that the screen stays black even during startup
>  suggest some sort of hardware problem.� Bad cable, bad video card?
>
>  --
>  Hendrik Jan Veenstra�� h @ k n o w a r e . n l
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