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Nov 19, 2003, 08:50 PM
 
i've had my G5 for over a month, i didn't have money to blow on a new moinitor, so i used a compaq vga monitor with my G5 via the adaptor,

well after a month, its working fine, but sometimes when i restart or wake my computer from sleep, it seems to "forget its supposed to be in 1024x768 res and goes to 800x600 instead, and when i go correcting it in sys prefs, it has the res and refresh alll in one list instead of res in a list and refresh rates in a dropdown menu

also sometime it'll start up in 800x600 and when i log in, it'll fortunately go back to 1024x768
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Dec 16, 2003, 05:38 AM
 
please help
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Dec 16, 2003, 06:53 AM
 
What kind of adapter is it?


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Dec 19, 2003, 01:04 AM
 
the one that came w/ the g5, a dvi-vga i think

it was fine, i somehow think it all started when using slideshow on my desktop background, don't know if that would have anything to do w/ it
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Feb 9, 2004, 05:35 PM
 
should i install 10.3? would that make a difference?
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Feb 9, 2004, 07:49 PM
 
There's a good chance that would make a difference, and if you've already paid for it, why not? You can just do an upgrade and not lose anything you have (presumably, always backup of course!).
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