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From: Sara Kirk on 22 Apr 2008 11:56


One of the machines at work is an old iLamp. It's gone all retro. When
you switch it on, the screen displays a bright, soft-edged square
surrounded by dark, that moves softly into the centre until everything's
dark. Then nothing. Like the tele used to do before all night
programming started.

The machine boots and runs perfectly well, I'm running it in TD mode off
a powerbook at the moment and it's fine.

Does this ring any bells with anyone? It's an old machine and not worth
spending much money on, but if there's a cheap/easy fix I'll go for it.

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Sara

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From: Chris Ridd on 22 Apr 2008 12:13
On 2008-04-22 16:56:49 +0100, Sara Kirk <sarakirk(a)blueyonder.co.uk> said:

>
>
> One of the machines at work is an old iLamp. It's gone all retro. When
> you switch it on, the screen displays a bright, soft-edged square
> surrounded by dark, that moves softly into the centre until everything's
> dark. Then nothing. Like the tele used to do before all night
> programming started.

Smack it on the side, like you used to do with old TVs?

> The machine boots and runs perfectly well, I'm running it in TD mode off
> a powerbook at the moment and it's fine.
>
> Does this ring any bells with anyone? It's an old machine and not worth
> spending much money on, but if there's a cheap/easy fix I'll go for it.

I'd say the backlight's gone or something similar. You could also try
fitting an external monitor to it if that's possible.

Cheers,

Chris

From: David Sankey on 22 Apr 2008 12:38
In article <sarakirk-53E37C.16564922042008(a)news.individual.net>,
Sara Kirk <sarakirk(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> One of the machines at work is an old iLamp. It's gone all retro. When
> you switch it on, the screen displays a bright, soft-edged square
> surrounded by dark, that moves softly into the centre until everything's
> dark. Then nothing. Like the tele used to do before all night
> programming started.
>
> The machine boots and runs perfectly well, I'm running it in TD mode off
> a powerbook at the moment and it's fine.
>
> Does this ring any bells with anyone? It's an old machine and not worth
> spending much money on, but if there's a cheap/easy fix I'll go for it.

The only meaningful suggestion that I have is 'reset Parameter RAM'.

Does it have external video. If so, does that work?

Kind regards,

Dave
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Apr 2008 14:10
Sara Kirk <sarakirk(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Does this ring any bells with anyone? It's an old machine and not worth
> spending much money on, but if there's a cheap/easy fix I'll go for it.

I'm sure you know what you're doing (reset parameter RAM and all that
stuff) but if it's actually a broken display, can you plug in an
external monitor? That might turn out to be the cheapest, simplest fix.
--
Peter
From: jim on 22 Apr 2008 14:48
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Sara Kirk <sarakirk(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Does this ring any bells with anyone? It's an old machine and not worth
> > spending much money on, but if there's a cheap/easy fix I'll go for it.
>
> I'm sure you know what you're doing (reset parameter RAM and all that
> stuff) but if it's actually a broken display, can you plug in an
> external monitor? That might turn out to be the cheapest, simplest fix.

As I recall, iLamps don't have external monitor ports.

Jim
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