Colored Noise on screen after waking up

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Colored Noise on screen after waking up

This have happen to me twice. I left my computer on without sleep, just the display off and unplugged. When I come back and plug it, the screen shows multi-colored noise. This is NOT on top of the usual image screen but completely noise colored with no transparancy. Once, they were color lines with noise, the other time they were small colored squares with noise.

Is this another problem of Leopard or could it be my graphic card?

MacBook Pro 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.2), screen resolution 1440 X 900

Posted on Apr 20, 2008 6:09 AM

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Answer 1

V.K.

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Apr 20, 2008 7:05 AM in response to fabuliciosa

I would suspect a graphics card problem. You might want to take your computer to an Apple store and let them test it.

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May 19, 2008 12:29 AM in response to fabuliciosa

I had this same problem happen on my MBP not too long ago. The strange thing is that my mouse cursor was fine but the rest of the screen was a rainbowy static that changed only slightly when different UI elements were redrawn (like staticy profile of a dialog box when I tried to do a "blind" reboot with the power button + r so I could clear up the problem).

After reading around the web a bit, I tried the suggestion in this article about changing the sleep mode to 0 on my MPB and the issue (knock on wood!) hasn't resurfaced since. I liked the faster sleep/wake up style of the older Apple laptops, and I save any critical work frequently anyway. My hunch is that the graphic state didn't reload properly (from disk?) after sleep, so this sleep mode change would bypass that.

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