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iBook G4 Video Problems Garbled, Trails, Artifacts
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bgmccollum
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Feb 12, 2005, 08:43 PM
 
So, my mom just picked up a refurbished iBook G4 from the Online Apple Store - 1Ghz, 256MB, 30 GB, Combo.

Well, first boot-up, everything look OK. Then after selecting the time zone in the setup process, the video started to get garbled along the right hand side of the scree. After colmpleting the setup and logging in, all was fine again. I just shrugged it off. Then menus started to get all garbled. Moving windows left trails. Sheets and progress bars were mess up too.

I figured it was just a corrupt OS install from the factory. So with disk in hand, I formatted and reinstalled the the OS. I was still experiencing problems with the video display. I went ahead and did an OS update from 10.3.3 to 10.3.8.

Well, let me make this quick. It didn't help.

Anyone else see this before?
     
avoges
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Feb 13, 2005, 12:24 AM
 
sounds like a bad logic board. Either call apple and have it repaired or replaced.
     
Detrius
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Feb 13, 2005, 08:08 PM
 
It's probably bad VRAM, which is on the logic board. You can run the Apple Hardware Test that came with the machine to verify this.
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