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Q: Some windows don't display fully.

I had acquired an eMac awhile ago that was going into a kernel panic at bootup. Nothing I read or researched seemed to do the trick. Recently as I was walking through a local Goodwill I found another eMac (with what appears to be a few BB divets in the display) for $10 so I purchased it. This eMac was an older 700mhz version that was running OSX 10.4.2 and booted just fine. There were a few permissions issues, but I think I've resolved them. So I then booted the non-working eMac into firewire mode and did a disc wipe/clone from the working system. Now the previous kernel panic is gone, and the system boots and allows me to log in, but the display is not using the full capacity. If I go into the Display properties the window never fully fills out (like it does on the other eMac) and I can't change the screen resolution.

 

I've attached a couple photo's below but it's a little hard to see for sure other than you can tell that it isn't using the full capacity of the display. The Display properties window is lacking a few tabs at the top, and also the minimize, maximize, close buttons in the top right of the window. I've noticed this on a few other windows that I've looked at on this system.

 

I hope I haven't rambled and completely confusted the issue. I have no OSX discs so reinstalling is pretty difficult. Is there some tool I can use to reset things? Is there a way to get copies of the OSX discs? As I've mentioned before I'm trying to immerse myself into the Mac culture and start learning to navigate in it. I'm not quite able to drop the cash required to buy a new system and I'd like to keep messing with these as I think I will learn a lot more by solving these problems than by just having a nice shiny new Apple product to play with.

 

Thanks in advance! One thing I have noticed is that this Apple support community is awesome! Just hoping someone has an answer that with any luck doesn't include "get some OSX discs" because they seem pretty scarce to me.

 

Greg

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eMac, Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on Mar 7, 2012 7:29 PM

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  • by GWHicks,

    GWHicks GWHicks Mar 7, 2012 7:57 PM in response to GWHicks
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    Mar 7, 2012 7:57 PM in response to GWHicks

    Here is a screengrab from the eMac. Easier to see the non-fully displayed window. The eMac saved it as a PDF which it doesn't appear you can post here so I'm putting a link to the file where I uploaded it onto the web.

    Greg

     

    http://epicallyrandom.com/eMacDisplay.pdf

  • by BDAqua,Helpful

    BDAqua BDAqua Mar 7, 2012 8:25 PM in response to GWHicks
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    Mar 7, 2012 8:25 PM in response to GWHicks

    Hi Greg,

     

    Without the propr OS Disc for the other eMac I don't think you van obercome this problem, but possibly Might look into DisplayConfigX...

     

     

    http://www.3dexpress.de/

     

    On this eMac...

     

    At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.

     

    Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto *but not including the Serial#*...

     

    Hardware Overview:

     

    Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad

    Machine Model: PowerMac11,2

    CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)

    Number Of CPUs: 4

    CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz

    L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB

    Memory: 10 GB

    Bus Speed: 1.25 GHz

    Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1

  • by GWHicks,

    GWHicks GWHicks Mar 7, 2012 10:19 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Mar 7, 2012 10:19 PM in response to BDAqua

    OK, making some headway I think. Below are the specs of both eMacs, but it appears the problem may be due to the 2nd eMac thinking it has 2 monitors plugged in. While messing around with DisplayConfigX I realized that if I carefully navigate around I could find a 2nd Display page that DID have all the minimize, maximize, close buttons. But still only a single resolution displayed and I'm not sure how to tell it there isn't a 2nd monitor. The eMac I cloned from doesn't show this so I'm not sure where that showed up unless it is a condition created by the cloning?

     

    First eMac (the one that works well and source for the clone)

    System Version: Mac OS X 10.2.8 (6R73)

    Processor: 700Mhz PowerPC G4

    Memory: 512 MB

    Machine Speed: 700 Mhz

    Bus Speed: 100 Mhz

    Number of Processors: 1

    L2 Cache Size: 256K

    Machine Model: eMac (version = 2.1)

    Boot ROM Info: 4.4.2f1

     

    Second eMac (this is the one with the display issue and I cloned this OS from the above eMac using the Firewire option)

    System Version: Mac OS X 10.2.8 (6R73)

    Processor: 1.42Ghz PowerPC

    Memory: 768 MB

    Machine Speed: 1.416 Ghz

    Bus Speed: 167 Mhz

    Number of Processors: 1

    L2 Cache Size: 512K

    Machine Model: PowerMac6,4 (version = 1.2)

    Boot ROM Info: 4.9.2f1

     

    Thanks for the help, maybe we'll get this figured out yet!

    Greg


  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Mar 7, 2012 10:32 PM in response to GWHicks
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    Mar 7, 2012 10:32 PM in response to GWHicks

    Thanks, I think the problem is likely the Video drivers from the 700, GeForce 2MX vs. Radeon 9600, but you're teonly one that can see your eMail in your profie, so if anybody had further clues they couldn't contact you.

     

    You could also join my site & ask or eMail/PM others there to ask for help...

     

    x704.net/bbs

  • by GWHicks,

    GWHicks GWHicks Mar 7, 2012 10:49 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Mar 7, 2012 10:49 PM in response to BDAqua

    Thank you, I just signed up and posted to the G3, G4, G5 section about changing the video drivers. I think you may be exactly right. We'll see, thanks for the tip about your website.

    Greg

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Mar 7, 2012 11:46 PM in response to GWHicks
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    Mar 7, 2012 11:46 PM in response to GWHicks