Posts by Johan Siebke

Update: After two weeks of scratching my head trying to find any local settings (computer or router) that were specific enough and after really not doing anything at all, normal service resumed suddenly. I have now had a good short week...

I will try and keep it short but it is complex (to me!): I have suddenly, since Friday 2 March, experienced very slow connection to one of my ISP's mailservers. Emails without attachments work ok'ish (a little "hesitantly"),...

This happened to my Magsafe 85W MBP charger a few days ago, so I did a search in the forums and found this interesting but old thread. Obviously, I wasn't the only one this seemingly freakish incident had happened to. I don't care one...

Just to sign this one off I post the reply from the Apple repair man when I told him: "Hadn't thought of that one... Just so you know that is accessed in System Preferences/Universal Access/Display Should be set on...

Quote: Originally Posted by Karelia I just tried this on my own machine, and all of your symptoms appeared. Your contrast is boosted. Hold Ctrl-Opt-Cmd and press Comma a few times. GENIUS!! It was that simple!! I must have...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin If you make a new user account and log into it, is the display still bad? Thanks again. I just tried that - AND IT WORKED! Logging in as a different user (new account) and a perfect screen pops...

Thanks SpotOn. You touch onto a few things that sounds scary to a lay-person as I am. Just to confirm: The Apple engineer booted my iMac from their own drive with their OS (10.5.8??) and the screen looked fine. As soon as it was...

Quote: Originally Posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R System Prefs -> Displays -> Color -> Display Profile -> change this to something else and report back. It has been tried several times (also together with Apple repair people) with...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin The screenshot looks ok here, you'd have to take a photo of the screen but the description is enough. I would try moving the file /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist to trash, don't...

My iMac 24" Aluminium (June 2008) running 10.5.8 has behaved impeccably for almost two years. I use it for graphics and photographic work, so colour fidelity is very important. A few days ago, in the morning, the machine was...