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pgignesi - May 8, 2005 - 9:30 am

Hi,

I'm a new G5 user.

When I set the system to energy save after x hours of inactivity, it does not re-initialize properly upon wake up. Specifically, the screen image on my Sony flat panel display in "torn", sometimes vertically, sometimes horizontally, sometimes skewed left or right. This requires a system restart as the image cannot be moved on the disply.

Thanks for any suggestions

Paul

HectorO - May 10, 2005 - 1:42 pm

Hey Paul,

I had a similar problem with one of my workstations at work, and the problem was a usb device that was plugged on to the monitor.

Try removing extra usb devices and try adding one at the time.

let me know how it goes.

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HectorO
macosx volunteer

pgignesi - May 10, 2005 - 2:03 pm

Thanks Hector .... unfortunatly I do not have extra usb devices plugged on to the monitor and the only other usb device is a printer that is connected to the G5

Thanks for the good try ...

HectorO - May 10, 2005 - 2:12 pm

When was the last time you completely power down your system?
Is this printer shared?
Try unplugging your printer, shutdown restart, do a quick energy saver with out the printer being plugged in and see what happends. Power off before reconnecting usb again.

Let me know how it goes.

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HectorO
macosx volunteer

pgignesi - May 10, 2005 - 2:41 pm

Hector, I followed the suggestion and it worked fine in 4 "sleep wake ups" ...no torn image!!

The printer is an old NEC Superscript 870 that works like a charm but is not supported ....we had to find some drivers to get it to work ...it that the problem or was it because I had plug it in while the system was running?

Thanks for the help ....let's hope it continues to behave

HectorO - May 10, 2005 - 3:05 pm

Good to hear,


I like to power down and let the system recognized new software or devices before I plug them in.

I don't know why, but g5 are known to have issues with usb devices.



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HectorO
macosx volunteer