OS X :: Start Up - Desktop Fragmenting Then Strobing?
Mar 1, 2009
Here is my scenario....
1st start up- start chime then nothing, no screen signal fan stops but light stays on.
2nd start up- start chime, apple logo with load clock, then flash to blue screen, then desktop image kicks in.
The finder bar then appears but has chunks missing in blocks, icons are overlapped and duplicated or multi- colored horizontal lines followed by strobing.
To over come this I have too start up from the install DVD, go to disk utilities, repair disk permissions.
I then restart and everything is OK most of the time.
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This doesn't happen all the time, but frequently enough to create a thread about it to find out what's going on.
I usually keep my desktop empty and use it to store stuff I'm going to process in the next hour anyway.
Sometimes my desktop is absolutely empty, but when I navigate to the following path: UserDesktop, the files do show up.
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