Dashboard background pitch black

[Evangeline000]

Hi,

I just received my eMac a couple of days ago and the dashboard worked fine. Now when I access it, the background is pitch black and I can barely see the widgets. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
Evangeline

 

[liketom]

what eMac specs you got ?

have you repaired perrmissions /rebooted

 

[Switzermac]

May be you should restart dashboard, i dont know how though.

 

[Evangeline000]

I rebooted about ten thousand times. I went into preferences and slid the brightness bar all the way to the right. I also changed my desktop to the lightest color available.

I have an eMAC combo drive with:

17-inch flat CRT display
1.42GHz PowerPC G4
256MB DDR333 SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo drive
ATI Radeon 9600
64MB video memory
56k internal modem

Thanks for the fast replies.

 

[Sharewaredemon]

Try repairing permissions as others have said, or, restarting Dashboard.

 

[Evangeline000]

How do I do that?

 

[grapes911]

How do I do that?

If you restarted the machine, dashboard restarted, so I wouldn't worry about that.

Here is how to repair permissions (I love stickies)
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/89736/

 

[Evangeline000]

You guys are great. Thanks for all the information.

I just repaired permissions and rebooted but the background of the dashboard is still dark. As a matter of fact, everything is getting darker.

 

[qzak]

damn, i'd say give Apple a call about now

 

[Sharewaredemon]

damn, i'd say give Apple a call about now

I second that.

 

[Evangeline000]

I have been holding for 15 minutes already (grrrrr).

 

[Sharewaredemon]

I have been holding for 15 minutes already (grrrrr).

Yeah being on hold isn't the greatest.

But I've always had a good experience with calling Apple.
(Though I've heard the Aussie Applecare people aren't that great).

 

[Evangeline000]

Apple said that this is a hardware problem and to either get it serviced or send it back. I just received this computer last Thursday. I am going to go out to the garage and get a sledgehammer and bash this things to bits.

 

[Sharewaredemon]

Apple said that this is a hardware problem and to either get it serviced or send it back. I just received this computer last Thursday. I am going to go out to the garage and get a sledgehammer and bash this things to bits.

I'm sorry to hear that, it happens sometimes, at least you are still under warranty.
I'd get it replaced personally, depending on how long it should take.

Oh yeah, don't take a sledgehammer to it, that will void your warranty.

 

[SLCentral]

Apple said that this is a hardware problem and to either get it serviced or send it back. I just received this computer last Thursday. I am going to go out to the garage and get a sledgehammer and bash this things to bits.

I don't get how this would be a hardware problem if it only happens with Dashboard. I'd re-install OS X.

 

[Evangeline000]

Well that made me laugh. Thanks.

It's a hardware issue because the screen gets darker before the OS is loaded.