Re: Ever-growing problems with G4 - desktop not showing up

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From: Greg Merritt (gregm@its.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 16:27:06 PDT

        You might want to try all of the pram zapping / cuda reset
voodoo on this machine...

-Greg

At 3:38 PM -0700 9/17/03, Eric Fong wrote:
>Hello:
>
>Remember when I had the G4 that was having printing problems with an
>HP 1200? Well, I can't work on it. Why? Now the desktop doesn't
>even show up on the monitor. It's just a big gray screen now. I
>know it's not the monitor because I took it out and set it up on
>another G4 and it works fine. I've sent in a work order to WHSG so
>I'm waiting to hear back from them. I have my own half-baked
>theories of why this has happened, but let me ask this:
>
>Is it possible, to have so many files (read hundreds - word docs,
>zip files, music files, etc.) on a desktop (and yes, it's so
>cluttered I can't find the "Macintosh HD" icon nor the Trash icon
>without invoking Sherlock) that the display gets overloaded and it
>won't display anything anymore? I tried starting off a Norton
>Utilities CD to see if just the Norton icon/desktop would appear and
>I think it booted from the CD because it sounded like that, but
>still, nothing would show up on the display.
>
>One day, I might just take a picture of the desktop to show
>everybody what I mean.
>
>Thanks.
>
>eric
>
>Eric Fong
>Computer Resource Specialist
>Department of Ethnic Studies
>506 Barrows Hall #2570
>U.C. Berkeley
>Berkeley, CA 94720-2570
>510.642.6555
>510.642.6456 - Fax
>
>
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