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Menu Bar Flashing? G5 OS X 10.5.8
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Vanity7Sins
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Mar 24, 2010, 08:30 PM
 
My mom has a G5 that is running OS X 10.5.8 and I noticed today that the menu bar randomly flashes like crazy, it doesn't just flash it's kind of like when you're tv is trying to get a signal. Everything else seems to be working ok, finder opens just fine and the volume is up. Anyone have any other ideas of what could be causing this?

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Mar 24, 2010, 08:33 PM
 
Never seen that problem before. Try holding Shift at startup for Safe Mode and see if the flashing continues.

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Mar 24, 2010, 09:20 PM
 
Is the clock set to flash the time separators? If my MBP is and the desktop is a certain colour, it does that.
     
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Mar 25, 2010, 07:08 AM
 
IME, all menubar problems go away if you disable menu transparency in System Preferences.
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Mar 27, 2010, 04:10 PM
 
Didn't there used to be a setting in Universal Access to have the menu bar flash for notifications?
     
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Mar 28, 2010, 03:44 PM
 
On OS 9 it was like that. I don't know when they changed it to flashing the entire screen, but it must have been before 10.5.
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