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Current version by Susan,
Title:
Why does my screen flash solid colors then displays a gray screen?
Text:
| Looks like flashes of the desktop wallpaper behind the color flashes (full red screen then full blue screen, other colors, thru to a solid gray). |
| This began when I attempted to use my daughter's usb "intern |
| I'd love to be using my laptop again and look forward to any repair suggestions. |
| Susan |
| Thank you for your reply, bad news that it is. Now shoot me. |
| Please tell me my stuff is still in there and re-triveable. Seriously. I went to Cambodia and stuff. And some other stuff I'd rather not lose. |
| That said, to the rt of the screen is a topic, "Which Philips screws on left edge of keyboard area? |
| In step 28 of the |
| In step 28 of the |
| ", which tells me the logic board can be replaced. This would be the perfect time to upgrade my RAM and install OSX 5.6.whatever. Yes? I have not researched the cost of these things. |
| OTOH, what's the chance there is an interupt by the i-stick? Was it simply coincidence that the color thing happened at the moment the stick was inserted? Might that be reversible? Oh! And does the sequence of the colors indicate a specific problem (similar to the beeps with a pc)? |
| Thanks again. |
| Good News. She's fixed. My son looked it up online & called from Korea. Following his instructions, I held down ctrl/apple/r/p during the initial boot from off and whala... I'm typing this on it now. So, it was something to do with a power source being totally depleted or something. This very cool geek guy I met (who writes for Mac OS) explained it to me. Except the part where the exclamation/1 key doesn't work everything seems to be fine. I can live with that for now. Yay (exclamation point). I do need to upgrade to 10.4, which might be a problem to find. Otherwise, thanks everyone for your advice. |
Device:
iBook G4 14" 933 MHz-1.33 GHz
Tags:
display, logic board
Status:
open
Edit by Susan,
Title:
Why does my screen flash solid colors then displays a gray screen?
Text:
| Looks like flashes of the desktop wallpaper behind the color flashes (full red screen then full blue screen, other colors, thru to a solid gray). |
| This began when I attempted to use my daughter's usb "intern |
| I'd love to be using my laptop again and look forward to any repair suggestions. |
| Susan |
| Thank you for your reply, bad news that it is. Now shoot me. |
| Please tell me my stuff is still in there and re-triveable. Seriously. I went to Cambodia and stuff. And some other stuff I'd rather not lose. |
| That said, to the rt of the screen is a topic, "Which Philips screws on left edge of keyboard area? |
| In step 28 of the ibook g4 Logic Board Replacement guide, the... |
| ", which tells me the logic board can be replaced. This would be the perfect time to upgrade my RAM and install OSX 5.6.whatever. Yes? I have not researched the cost of these things. |
| OTOH, what's the chance there is an interupt by the i-stick? Was it simply coincidence that the color thing happened at the moment the stick was inserted? Might that be reversible? Oh! And does the sequence of the colors indicate a specific problem (similar to the beeps with a pc)? |
| Thanks again. |
Device:
iBook G4 14" 933 MHz-1.33 GHz
Tags:
display, logic board
Status:
open
Edit by Sterling Hirsh,
Title:
Why does my screen flash solid colors then displays a gray screen?
Text:
Looks like flashes of the desktop wallpaper behind the color flashes (full red screen then full blue screen, other colors, thru to a solid gray).
This began when I attempted to use my daughter's usb "internet stick", which is from a company in Mexico called telcel. The stick is from Huawei Mobile Connect, model E160 HSDPA. FCC ID: QISE160, CEO 682.
I'd love to be using my laptop again and look forward to any repair suggestions.
Susan
Device:
iBook G4 14" 933 MHz-1.33 GHz
Tags:
Status:
open
Edit by Walter Galan,
Title:
Text:
Looks like flashes of the desktop wallpaper behind the color flashes (full red screen then full blue screen, other colors, thru to a solid gray).
This began when I attempted to use my daughter's usb "internet stick", which is from a company in Mexico called telcel. The stick is from Huawei Mobile Connect, model E160 HSDPA. FCC ID: QISE160, CEO 682.
I'd love to be using my laptop again and look forward to any repair suggestions.
Susan
Device:
iBook G4 14" 933 MHz-1.33 GHz
Tags:
dragontat2, ibook color flash
Status:
open
Original post by Susan,
Title:
Screen flashes solid color screens then solid gray.
Text:
Looks like flashes of the desktop wallpaper behind the color flashes (full red screen then full blue screen, other colors, thru to a solid gray).
This began when I attempted to use my daughter's usb "internet stick", which is from a company in Mexico called telcel. The stick is from Huawei Mobile Connect, model E160 HSDPA. FCC ID: QISE160, CEO 682.
I'd love to be using my laptop again and look forward to any repair suggestions.
Susan
Device:
iBook G4 14" 933 MHz-1.33 GHz
Tags:
dragontat2, ibook color flash
Status:
open