i dont know why!?!?!?!?! when i turn on my laptop, it boot fine, grey screen with apple logo, blue screen, and then a grey white screen with a vertical black bar at the right of the screen apears....so i need to hard reboot the lap, and it appens again, and again and again like 3 or 4 times and then it boot fine ¬¬

so what should be the solution fot that?

I know this isn't the answer you wanted, but there is no cure. I hope every day there will be one and check this forum religiously, but no one seems to be working on this. Maybe because it only affects certain hardware. I've tried every supposed fix, every possible method. I can make it worse, but not better. It wastes about 15 minutes a day and is very irritating. I guess all we can do is pray that someone with the know-how buys a X3100 laptop and gets mad enough to figure out a fix. If you do figure out anything, PLEASE SHARE. So far what I've noticed about the problem:

-It generally it takes me three or four tries to boot into OSX each morning after the laptop is off overnight.

-After booting into OSX and running a while, I can usually reboot just fine without getting a scrambled screen.

-After the laptop is running for a few hours I can often shut it completely down, wait a while, and start it up fine.

-I haven't done extensive testing, but it APPEARS that having an external monitor hooked up makes it boot fine.

In my case, no alternate drivers, EFI strings, third party programs, BIOS settings, or alternate video bios versions have made any difference. The best we seem to be able to get is Hardware Acceleration, Quartz Extreme, full resolution selection... and a 30% chance of booting up properly The worst part of it is that every other thing now works wonderfully on my laptop, so I use OSX as my main operating system.

dammit! jejeje its oks....i will share future information of this problem...and if you found something, please let me know too

mmmm another thing......its a new problem?? because...i dont remeber very well but i think that the problem wasnt there when i install kalyway 10.5.2 for the first time...i been with leopard for 3 months and this problem appears on the last month

ok...i dont why but i power on my lap this morning and all was normal...no screen problem

Yeah, it's completely random. Every time I get my laptop to start up correctly, I start getting excited that the problem may be better / fixed / gone. Don't worry, the evil scrambled screen will be back, though

Another thing I've noticed it APPEARS as those of us with an LCD at GFX0 have this problem the most.