BobWeaver Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 This just started happening a few days ago. The drawing window randomly refreshes even when I'm not doing anything. It causes a serious flicker which is very hard on the eyes. It seems to do a couple of quick refreshes and then a slower one. After the problem started, I upgraded from 11.5 to 11.5.1 and it still does it. There are no other applications running when it does this. I'm running on a Mac powerbook G4, OSX 10.3 Panther. I can't think of any changes that I've made to the system software that would have caused this. Any idea what I should check? Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 OSX 10.3.9 has all new OpenGl drivers. The PB should not be flickering at all. This looks like a hardware problem. Possibly bad vram or a loose connection. Use the Tech Tools Utility that came with your install CD and check the components. If everything is OK then upgrade to 10.3.9 or even 10.4.3 ... Quote Link to comment
BobWeaver Posted September 16, 2005 Author Share Posted September 16, 2005 Thanks for the reply. It only did it when running from the admin account. Worked fine from a user account. So, hardware problems were unlikely. In the end, I fixed it by trashing the prefs file. Quote Link to comment
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