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Rebooting in 9.X
Authored by: stevo on Apr 28, '02 01:06:04PM

I ran into the "out ot scan range" problem on my new G4 733 which is hooked up to my old Apple 20" monitor. It took me three hours of researching on the net and trying all sorts of things until I found the trick about deleting the com.apple.windowserver.plist trick. The "boot with shift key down" solution seems the most elegant solution, but here are two other things I discovered that may help in other scenarios:

1. you can hold dowm command-S on startup to get into console mode before the screen resolution settings are applied.

2. of all the CDs that came with my G4, only the OS 9 Install CD allowed me to get to the desktop where I was able to move the com.apple.windowserver.plist file to another location.



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