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ArmandD · 10-15-2002, 11:12 AM

Occasionally, instead of the aquarium starting up, my screen goes black and apparently locks up! The bubble sound goes on and off for about 2 seconds on a 5-6 second cycle. I can see the pointer arrow, but that's all. I'm running Mac OSX on an iMac DV. I found on your FAQ somewhere a suggestion that this problem happens on this machine, and a suggestion to turn colors to the "thousands" mode as a fix, but I'm already in "thousands" mode. I had "conserve video memory" checked, so I unchecked that, but I don't know yet whether the problem has gone away or not, as it's only been a few days, and the problem is only occasional. It only occurs once every dozen startups or so. Has there been any progress in fixing this problem. I like the screen saver, but I'm afraid I may have to disable it, because this interferes with my productivity.

10-15-2002, 11:12 AM	#1
ArmandD Registered Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3	Screen blackout - Mac OSX Occasionally, instead of the aquarium starting up, my screen goes black and apparently locks up! The bubble sound goes on and off for about 2 seconds on a 5-6 second cycle. I can see the pointer arrow, but that's all. I'm running Mac OSX on an iMac DV. I found on your FAQ somewhere a suggestion that this problem happens on this machine, and a suggestion to turn colors to the "thousands" mode as a fix, but I'm already in "thousands" mode. I had "conserve video memory" checked, so I unchecked that, but I don't know yet whether the problem has gone away or not, as it's only been a few days, and the problem is only occasional. It only occurs once every dozen startups or so. Has there been any progress in fixing this problem. I like the screen saver, but I'm afraid I may have to disable it, because this interferes with my productivity.