iChat disconnects after a few seconds and starts to blink the whole screen

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iChat disconnects after a few seconds and starts to blink the whole screen

iChat disconnects after a few seconds and starts to blink the whole screen
this started since I installed Leopard; if I go back to 10.4 it works OK. I got rid of all the plist and it still hangs up. How can I uninstall this. On my laptop it works OK but I installed it with complete erase on laptop; on my desktop I stalled it over the old system.

error message AIM time out An AIM service error occurred.

Error: Serv:RequestTimeout

and you have attemptedto log too often in a short period of time. wait a few minutes before trying to login in again.

EVEN THOUGH I ONLY TRIED ONCE TO LOG IN.

G5 desktop and G4 laptop, Mac OS X (10.5.1), Netgear wireless router WGT624

Posted on Dec 2, 2007 2:33 PM

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Defcom-UK

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Dec 2, 2007 2:47 PM in response to epospiech

Hi

Try logging on to AIM on port 443 rather than port 5190.

Go to IChat in the menu bar > Preferences > Accounts.
Log out of AIM and then use the Server Settings tab
Set the port to 443.
Log back in again.

Tony

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epospiech Author

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Dec 2, 2007 2:54 PM in response to Defcom-UK

it did change to 443 but it still is doing it; It won't let me even get on as it says I've tried to connect too often. I can't even find the plist to remove. The new apple search doesn't seem to show any plist files at all under ichat

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Dec 4, 2007 12:03 PM in response to epospiech

If you Archived and Installed then check iChat launches from the Applications Folder.

If it does that Drag the current (iChat 3) icon off the DOCK and drag iChat 4 to the DOCK.

8:03 PM Tuesday; December 4, 2007

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epospiech Author

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Jan 30, 2008 3:52 PM in response to epospiech

thanks all for your help. It just return to normal activity; it may be related to PLAXO upgrade which made my AppleMail program and Safari inoperable. Since I uninstalled PLAXO all is working fine.

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epospiech Author

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Jan 30, 2008 3:53 PM in response to epospiech

I think it may have been related to PLAXO (beta 3.0) - once I installed it - all my problems resolved.

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