[DEMUG] anyone familiar with UGO MAC TECHNOLOGY INC in Portland?

[Michele Stapleton]

On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:51 AM, James Baranski wrote:

> Tim,

Actually, it's Michele, not Tim, that has the problem. I think Tim  
simply commented on the thread.
>
> Your current problem looks like one of your backlights has failed.   
> There are two interesting CCL
> tube lights behind the display which illuminate it, the top one has  
> failed on your display.

Changing the display resolution in the system prefs (and then  
returning it my originalresolution) cleared up today's problem (as it  
does the dancing pixels.) Nevertheless, when you spend close to $2k,  
you don't feel like you shold constantly be fiddling with the settings.

>
> I'm assuming this is the newer DVI aluminum display, is it HD?   
> What size is it?

This is the cinema display, a 30" and I don't know if it's HD.

>  n If it was an older ADC acrylic display I'd say that you were  
> taxing your computer's power supply, making it
> shutdown.  Maybe the display's PS is failing, maybe your computer's  
> PS is failing.  Is your
> computer pretty loaded with power sucking/heat creating interfaces  
> or disk drives?
not any more than I had before. And my harddrives often are turned off.

>
> The USB/Firewire interfaces on the display may not be handling  
> startup/shutdown sleep/awake up properly, causing them to wake the  
> computer up when they shouldn't, or keeping it awake.
> They don't usually make them shutdown/fall asleep unless you have a  
> bad keyboard with a
> power on/off switch or sleep/wake button.
>
> More information on your exact configuration would be helpfull.
>
> I've never dealt with portland, but there is Capital Computing in  
> Augusta.  They do a lot of Mac
> repairs, but they may not be authorized to repair your display.
>
> Good Luck, Jim.
>

Michele

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