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- From: pegasus@leland.Stanford.EDU (Betty Lee)
- Subject: Re: A Petty Question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.050336.363@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
- Organization: Stanford University -- Electrical Engineering
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:03:36 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- grabenst@umbc4.umbc.edu (Mr. Michael Grabenstein; ACS (GUEST)) writes:
-
- + klarson@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Kris Larson) writes:
- + >Why is it that the little Mac logo on my startup screen ("Welcome to
- + >Macintosh") no longer is in color? I recently had the logic board replaced
- + >on my LC (the sockets weren't holding my SIMMs in place), and since then
- + >that logo has been black and white. Can it be changed back?
- +
- + There is some switch telling the system that you have a
- + BW system. I have never found it, but this is the best thing I
- + can think of to explain it. I have just re-installed the system
- + from disk. Note sometimes I have to trash the system before
- + I re-installed it. Or if you have a back up of your system file
- + (which is a real good idea) you can jsut copy it back into the
- + system folder.
-
- Rebuilding the system is a bit drastic, isn't it? The logo tends to
- lose its color every time I zap my PRAM, but if I fiddle with the
- Monitors control panel, it's normally fine again. Of course, if you
- only installed a minimal system, that's a different story...
-
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