fruitylooper Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 i was fiddling with resolution setting on my laptop and accidentally swithced to 800x600. this resulted in a blank blue screen. i tried to resolve the problem by pugging in a 2nd moniter. when i did this, both screens were working fine. however, when i unpugged the 2nd moniter the laptop screen went back to the blank blue screen or , bizzarly, showed a small section of the desktop where i could move the mouse but not actually click on anything. i played around with more settings and when i tried 800x600 (streched) with mirroring on both screens went blank blue and would not come back even after restart. is there anything i can do? my graphics card is intel 945gm. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&p=220389 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitylooper Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 nice1, thanks alot rammjet this woked however, i now have an ugly box around anything i select, is there way to get rid of this? sorry for being annoyingly dim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitylooper Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 also, under the apple menu there is now 2x reboot, 2x shutdown and 2x logout options????? also performance seems to be worse!!! and the desktop seems to "refresh" itself every so often, closing all finder windows i have open! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitylooper Posted November 29, 2006 Author Share Posted November 29, 2006 can any1 help with the problems above? when i was putting the code in i made a few mistakes and redid the whole thing several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 can any1 help with the problems above? when i was putting the code in i made a few mistakes and redid the whole thing several times. Without knowing exactly what you typed when you made the mistakes, it is virtually impossible to know what you may have broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitylooper Posted November 29, 2006 Author Share Posted November 29, 2006 hmmm i typed it once when i left out the * at the end of the last two lines. also, when i got it working , i wasnt sure if i needed the * so i typed every line twice, once without the * and once with. im new to this so forgive me for making such a stupid mistake i also tried different ways of typing my user name (randy furlong) : randyfurlong, randy furlong and randy-furlong. i think i might also have typed "volume" instead of "volumes" once (or vice versa ) thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 If that is truly all you did, unless I missed something, you shouldn't have caused any damage. Your username: randyfurlong Open Terminal. It tells you your username. Don't believe it? Type: whoami Try cleaning up some caches and see if it fixes something. Download Onyx: http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html Run the following (ignore the S.M.A.R.T error if it pops up): - If you shutdown your computer every night, then run this: Maintenance -> Run Maintenance Scripts -> (all 3 selections) -> Execute - Run these: Maintenance -> Reset -> LaunchServices database -> Execute Cleaning -> Caches -> (all 4 selections) -> Execute Cleaning -> Misc Options -> Temporary and Obsolete items -> Execute Reboot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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