Some weeks ago I changed the region of my DVD player. Since then every app that uses video or image (except VLC) are full of grey dots or strange lines.
I went to an apple store, here in Turku, and they told me that the video card is broken. They will need the laptop for five working days, so I will leave it there in middle of December, since I will be out of Turku during a week.
Of course, I do not know if the change of the region has something to do with this problem, but it was the only thing that I have done unusual and the problems began right after that.
Here you have some screenshots:
The grey dots on Desktop:
A movie running on DVD Player
A picture from Photobooth
At first I thought that only the apple apps had problems, since VLC does not have any problem playing the DVD’s, but skype has the same problem.
I found rather strange that VLC is ok…
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Of course changing the DVD region has nothing to do with the problem… That’s like saying that a guy that was beheaded died because of his heart problems
Looks like a coincidence and I think the Apple guys are right in their assessment. Definitely a video card problem.
try open and close the lid. In my old HP it’s result.
Marco, what is a “lid”?
“lid” é tampa. o ecran, neste caso
Gosto da 3a foto. um olhar profundo como que a dizer “o meu computadorziiiiiiinho!”
Would you happen to have a Ubuntu PPC liveCD with you? I’d give it a try before turning the laptop in to the repair centre, because of the VLC exception. maybe, just maybe, it’s got something to do with software, such as the Core Image thingy gone bonkers. If it works under linux, then you’d be sure that it’s a software issue. Otherwise, if you still have them grey dots jumping about, it’s pretty much confirmed.
é que me faz tanta falta! já não consigo passar sem ele!
I can get one tonight, but since this is a mac-intel I should download the x86 live cd right? Or I have to look for some distro with a specific live cd for this kind of machine? (sorry if the questions seems naïve, i do not have so much knowledge in this area)
X86, right… silly me
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…. this might be a problem I can’t help you with. As far as I know, people dual-booting Linux and OS X on a Macintel need to install Apple’s Bootcamp *before* they are able to install Linux. I hear the boot sequence is something like: 1) Bootcamp; 2) LILO; 3) Linux
This suggests that just popping in a Linux CD might not be enough to boot up. If you have a LiveCD handy or bandwidth to spare, go for it (just don’t install on your hard drive as OS X would be lost); otherwise, don’t bother… My computer is PPC G4 that’s why I was so keen on suggesting this “easy” solution. hasty, hasty…. :p
thanks, i’ll try
i think i saw something specific for the mac intel, sometime ago, but i tried to search now and only found installation cds
i will tell you later how it went