[anthology123]

First posted in MacOS, then I think it might be a hardware problem:

Has anyone had the font in the Finder look odd? The fours get filled in on the top, the lowercase z gets filled top on both ends, the capital N has dots down its middle. This appears even if I format the drive and run a clean install. I see it even during an install! I tried 3 different OSX installs for G4s (10.3, 10.3.5, 10.3.7) they all do the same thing. I have zapped the PRAM and no difference. The fact that it even happens before the OS is even installed is puzzling. Anyone else seen something like this? I can't figure out how to describe this in google.

The system is a PowerMac G4 MDD dual 1GHZ, 512 RAM 120GB drive

Here is a pic of the problem:




notice 2 things, the 4's in the time are all filled, and
notice in the dock the triangles under each running application are
all cut off.

[anthology123]

Wow,
I actually have a unique problem that no one here has seen before nor do they even have a guess as to the problem. Stumped the band! Wow, this must be a first.

[Chuckit]

Sounds like it probably is a hardware problem.

[ashtoash]

You have a faulty video card. Did you modify the card, or overclock?

Simptoms appear to be that of a card that overheated.