more PowerBook display problems

Last August (meaning 2008),  my PowerBook’s screen started to flicker. It usually did this when the laptop was booting up or when waking up from sleep mode. I associated the flicker with the sudden change in temperature: asleep, the all aluminum body is quite cool to the touch, and it heats up rather quickly once it is on.

So last summer, I installed G4FanControl, a program that manually overrides the temperature settings at which the laptop’s three cooling fans come on. I have been able to set that temperature lower, keeping my laptop cooler for more than a year. And it has been doing fine. Until today.

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Any further suggestions?

Posted on November 12, 2009 
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