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Using frontrow iphoto slideshows on imac causes distorted display.
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I just bought this iMac with iSight a few days ago. So far I have been very happy with it, but now I am worried that it is defective. I was playing around with Frontrow and picked an album of photos to watch as a slideshow in Frontrow. After 3 or so minutes of watching the display gets distorted. The only way to fix it is to either reboot or switch the display to 256 colors. However if I switch it back out of 256 colors, it becomes distorted again. I used the keyboard shortcuts to take a screen capture and to my surprise it saved the distortion. Now one thing that I don't understand is that this ONLY happens in Frontrow. I tried using iPhoto itself to display a slideshow and it was fine. I also have DOOM3 on the computer and never had a problem. This really sucks. I have a 2GB DDR2 stick on the way and can't wait to get finished setting this beast up!  So.. Has anyone heard of this or experienced this problem?
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(Last edited by HungrySeacow; Dec 19, 2005 at 01:58 AM.
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I just wanted to let you guys know that putting the computer to sleep and then waking it up also fixes it.
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I took the computer back to the Apple store and they gave me another one. Horray, problem gone! The genius at the Apple store said that the video card was bad. I still find it surprising that you can take a screen capture and capture a hardware problem.
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Sure it wasn't photoshop? Looks like a photoshop filter 
That is reaaaally odd, especially as it saved the distortion in the screen cap as well! 
Can you post a full screen cap of it?
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Now why would I fake a problem to just get another iMac? I could understand your suspicion if i wanted my money back.
http://www.hungryseacow.com/Personal/Picture%201.png
Originally Posted by Duracell
Sure it wasn't photoshop? Looks like a photoshop filter
That is reaaaally odd, especially as it saved the distortion in the screen cap as well!
Can you post a full screen cap of it?
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