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From: awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mac II Problems
Keywords: Color Apple Menu Icon, Mystery Crashes
Message-ID: <430@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jul 88 16:30:03 GMT
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal.
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I don't want this to be long and whiney, but I just got my first Mac II and
I'm having the occassional strange problem.  My monitor hasn't come yet, so
I'm borrowing different monitors daily.  When I was using a 13" Sony color,
I noticed that sometimes the apple in the upper left would be color and b&w
other times--but I was always set for 256 color.  It would be a rainbow,
I'd load an application and come back to find it black.  It's a borrowed,
well-used video card, too, I should mention.

Now that I'm using the same video card with a used Apple monochrome monitor,
I'm finding that some programs (such as Crystal Quest) hang coming back to 
the Finder.  The screen just blanks out and I have to push the reset button.

To me it's just one more illustration of my theory that new computers have
to be 'taught' how to behave.  Almost every new computer I've gotten or
built (ah, the good old days) "acted up" initially.  Eventually, something
would happen to convince it to behave nicely and from then on no problems
until old age.  My extra 1MB in my Mac Plus started acting up, so I drove
fifty miles to the place that installed it.  Naturally, at the doctor's
office it was on its best behavior.  I haven't had any problems since.

So I'm not alarmed at the Mac II's behavior, I'm just posting this in case
there is some known solution that I haven't heard.  Or this sounds like
some known lemon behavior so I can return this thing quick.  :-)

/alastair/