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Lost colors on screen when I installed OSX, amber only color left
I was given an iMac G3 M4984. I installed OSX and lost almost all colors on the screen. I am left with only amber hues. The colors were all there and working fine prior to the installation. The computer boots with OSX, but still runs OS9 when I run the older disks and games that we have.
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Phill
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If this is the 333Mhz tray loader model, and you did not install OS9.2.2 first, AND update the firmware to 1.0 ( NOT 1.2)from apple downloads, then you have a problem. If you did not do both these things, your installation of OS X has caused the display failure.
There is a guy in the USA who will repair it for $80. It is a well documented problem, so google it and you will learn more.
Good luck.
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mayer
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How much RAM do you have? What version of OSX did you use? Does the problem persist in both OS 9 & OS X? I would start first in OS 9. You may not have the RAM or CPU power to run the OSX version you are trying. In OS9, try going to :Under the Apple icon in the upper left hand corner, go to: control panels - monitors and see if the color is on. Then try lowering your colors to 256, next try raising it to thousand?