[Grubbs]

I just bought a macbook pro and am having some problems with it. The icons and the background on the screen are all in abstract colors. There isn't a start up noise as well. When I open on of my video projects, the colors on that are also strange. When I restart the computer, everything goes back to normal..
Would appreciate any help or thoughts about it.
thanks.

[badnewsblair]

I would definitely send that back. Especially if you just got it.

[Macola]

Check your settings under Universal Access, in System Preferences. If you set them again and they fail to "stick" try deleting the preferences file under ~/Libray/Preferences.

[badnewsblair]

Do the colors look like they are all Inverse Colors of what they should be? You could be in the High Contrast mode. Try pushing Apple + Option + Control + 8.

[Grubbs]

I'm new to this message board, so I hope the pics come out all right, but here's what my vid first looks like...


and here is how it's suposed to look like..


I tried the contrast thing, and it wasn't the problem, and didn't know what to change the system preferences back to...but if I waited a while the computer would change back to normal....
thanks for ya'lls help, this is my first mac so I'm not sure what's going on with it.