This just died on us on New Year’s day while playing MP3s through iTunes. It’s like the old saying “The light’s on, but nobody’s home” in that the power to the display is there, turning the backlight on and making the power button itself functional, but no image gets to the screen. We hooked up the LCD from our PC setup to the VGA port and it works fine, so now I have two possibilties:
1.) Something in the display or the display cable has fried. I’m hoping that it is not this because Jan really likes the way the Apple monitor looks…
2.) The ADC port alone has fried for whatever reason. I’m hoping that this is the case, because I have been wanting to put a GeForce3 in there…
This is easy to check, of course — I just need to get to another Mac that has an ADC port to see if the display works when connected there. Not really being a Mac expert, I just assumed that all Apple hardware would have this as the standard display port. Uff da! I schlepped the display around Tokyo today trying to find a friend with the right set-up. Unfortunately, they’re even less technical than me, so asking them if they have an ADC port is like asking me my opinion on the latest fashions. Ellie’s school has a whole raft of Macs, however, so I’ll try there when they open next week
1/13/2005 Update
So it’s the display that’s fried. Bummer. I could probably go to one of the companies we work with for LCD repair (PCS, for example, contracts with Apple, I know.) and get it repaired, but for $250 I can get a nice 17″ LCD monitor and run it off the VGA port. Not as elegant, to be sure, but more practical. eBay has the 15″ Studio Displays available for $400 used, sio my options are limited. Sigh.
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