iBook screen is red!

daverdaver
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I hooked my iBook (Dual USB) up to my roommate's 19" CRT monitor via the VGA connector and was surprised to see my LCD turn red.



I did have a DVD in the drive, so I attributed the screen's new red tint to some lame-brained copy protection scheme. In any event, the image on the CRT was fine.



After I disconnected my iBook, however, the screen stayed red, even after multiple restarts. What's going on here?

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Hmm... something similar happened to me in the pre-GM builds of 10.1 where the DVD player would make everything everywhere turn weird shades of blue-green. It stuck after restarts as well. I ended up wiping and reinstalling (since I was using a beta build, I was pletly prepared for this). I've never seen it happen in the GM, though.



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  • Reply 2 of 2
    daverdaver Posts: 496member
    Hey, I fixed it! The problem was a corrupt preferences file... I trashed ColorSync prefs, Display prefs, and a couple of others. Whichever file it was, my screen is now back to its old self.



    I should have added that I was running OS 9.2.1. When I rebooted under my 10.0.4 install, the screen was fine.
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