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From: g-golub@rocky.cs.wisc.edu.CS.WISC.EDU (Joshua Golub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II [color] Problems
Keywords: Color Apple Menu Icon, Mystery Crashes
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Date: 2 Aug 88 03:39:21 GMT
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In article <430@dbase.UUCP> awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>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.
>/alastair/
 
   Ah ha, so I'm not the only one.  My Mac II also has problems when the colors
change.  I have a feeling it's PRAM related, but don't know how to find out.
   When I change the color settings when a system not on my hard disk is being
used, I almost always have problems when I re-start from my hard disk.  I've
found that if the machine is set to 256 colors when I boot off the hard disk,
everything's fine, otherwise it bombs when inits are being loaded.  I've
never heard of color sensitive bombs before!  Most recently, I had to have
a new motherboard put in (at the small cost of $322, yipes!) and, when the
machine was restarted for the first time, it bombed.  I booted with the
system tools 6.0 disk, set the monitor to 256 colors, and tried again and
all was fine.  (Well, I had to re-set everything stored in PRAM, but other
than that all was well. . .)
    So, then, has anyone else experienced color-sensitive bugs or does anyone
know what the cause may be?  I'm running lots of various inits, including
'color cursor' (which is the last init to load before it crashes. . .)
 
-- Bob
 
BTW: Re: the blinking apple, on my Mac II running system 6.0, changes between
a small 'ringing alarm clock' icon and the apple -- kind of makes it clear
what's happening, wouldn't you say?