[Ham-Mac] Are you running OSX on your Mac ?

[Chris Smolinski]

Terry Martin wrote:
> 
> FYI, shack m/c is 'Rev C' iMac (160Mb mem) running OS8.5.1. No immediate
> plans to run OSX. 73

I thought I'd mention... when we upgraded the iMac DV to OSX, I ran into
a nasty problem. It seemed to work ok, but then the video would start to
look "funny", with colors separated. Then sometimes there would be no
video at all. Then the video went out completely.  :-(

Too concidental to be hardware failure, I figured it was OSX. I did some
searching around on Apple's discussion board, and saw others reported
the problem and fixed it with a firmware upgrade. Fortunately I could
get video from the VGA port in the back, so I hauled an old peecee
monitor out of the basement, and got it up and running in 9.1, and
downloaded and ran the firmware upgrade, which fixed it.  Whew!

73
Chris
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