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Author:  bally199 [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:40 am ]
Post subject:  Blurry screen?
All of a sudden, my Hackintosh has decided to display a slightly blurry picture on my monitor. It's not too bad, but it's noticable and it hurts your eyes after a bit. It's set at 1280x1024@75hz, just as my Windows PC is, but yet it's blurry. I'm using a VGA cable on the Mac, and a DVI-VGA cable on the PC.

I don't know why this has happened, or how, but it certainly is strange. I've tried resetting the resolution and refresh rate too, to no avail. Weird :/

Hac specs:

3ghz Pentium D
GeForce 7300GT 512mb
2.5gb RAM
160gb SATA drive

Monitor : 20" Sony CPD-420 CRT.

Thanks guys. :D
Author:  Nick [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:51 pm ]
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Tried a different monitor?
Author:  paulzolo [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:25 pm ]
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Hacintosh :shock: You have to expect problems. Different cable?
Author:  bally199 [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:23 pm ]
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I've discovered what was causing the problem.

It seems that the 7300GT graphics card this system has all of a sudden decided that it wants nothing to do with the fan it has. It was still going round, but when I unplugged it (after trying everything) the screen went back to normal :shock:

I've just screwed a 80mm case fan onto the heatsink now, and it seems to be working fine.

It's a Mac, they should just work (TM)! :P
Author:  timark_uk [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:31 pm ]
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bally199 wrote:
It's pretending to be a Mac, they should just fail to work correctly (TM)! :P
Corrected.

Mark
Author:  rustybucket [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:48 pm ]
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timark_uk wrote:
bally199 wrote:
It's pretending to be a Mac, they should just fail to work correctly (TM)! :P
Corrected.

Mark

Does that mean that the 27" iMacs are only pretending?
Author:  timark_uk [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:52 pm ]
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If you have a point say it please. (8+)

Mark
Author:  jonbwfc [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:17 pm ]
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bally199 wrote:
It's a Mac, they should just work (TM)! :P

Yes, but it's also a PC, which means it won't.
Author:  paulzolo [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:43 pm ]
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jonbwfc wrote:
bally199 wrote:
It's a Mac, they should just work (TM)! :P

Yes, but it's also a PC, which means it won't.


It’s certainly not a proper Mac. I could put diesel in my car, but ...
Author:  bally199 [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Blurry screen?
Why do all you Macolites get so pissed off at me when I say the words "hackintosh"? I've never understood that. :/

It's only an OS after all. I don't care for underpowered and hugely overpowered hardware to be honest, but I do like the OS quite much.

BTW, my PC works fine Jon. Actually, it works quite a lot better than my G4 Powermac does.

Did you all miss the :P at the end of the "Macs just work" sentance? I was using it in jest.

Anyway, it's fixed now.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:10 pm ]
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bally199 wrote:
Why do all you Macolites get so pissed off at me when I say the words "hackintosh"? I've never understood that. :/

How can I put this...

If I take my car, paint it red and then put a Ferrari badge on the front, is it then a Ferrari?

Jon
Author:  bally199 [ Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:12 pm ]
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jonbwfc wrote:
bally199 wrote:
Why do all you Macolites get so pissed off at me when I say the words "hackintosh"? I've never understood that. :/

How can I put this...

If I take my car, paint it red and then put a Ferrari badge on the front, is it then a Ferrari?

Jon


No, and when ever did I call my hackintosh a fully-blown, same-as-a-shop-bought Mac? I don't think I did, did I?

Oh, I tell a lie. I did when I used the Macs just work jesty thing. Which isn't funny to you guys.

:(
Author:  jonbwfc [ Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:11 am ]
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bally199 wrote:
Oh, I tell a lie. I did when I used the Macs just work jesty thing. Which isn't funny to you guys.

:(

Seriously, it was funny about the first... 50 times. The next 150 or so we kind of tolerated it. These days....

Jon
Author:  big_D [ Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:35 am ]
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It is the same as going to a Windows forum and saying "I have an illegal copy of Windows and it doesn't work properly on my machine." You'll generally get short shrift from them as well

You are trying to something which you aren't allowed to do and then complaining when it doesn't work as you expected.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:43 am ]
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big_D wrote:
It is the same as going to a Windows forum and saying "I have an illegal copy of Windows and it doesn't work properly on my machine." You'll generally get short shrift from them as well

You are trying to something which you aren't allowed to do and then complaining when it doesn't work as you expected.

Actually what he's doing is conflagrating two completely unrelated facts (his video card fan popped, he's running Mac OS) together for no good reason and then using it as an excuse to troll the mac forum.
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