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To: Edward Boghosian who wrote (6827)	12/14/1997 1:26:00 AM
From: Eric Yang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

>>For my own technical knowledge. What are you experiencing that leads you to believe the video circuitry is messed up. I assume the monitor works.<< Actually there is nothing wrong with the built-in ATI Rage II accelerated graphic chipset driving the monitor. It's the video-in circuitry on the AV 'personality' card that's bad. Don't want to turn this into MacFixIt, or "Eric's problem" thread but here are the symptoms. When external video source such as VCR, digital camera etc is attached and Apple Video Player is launched I only get a blue screen within the window. When the record button is clicked I get an error message. Doesn't cause a crash or anything. I've checked the input/output 10 times.. triple checked video source within the AppleVideoPlayer preference. Triple check the NTSC/PAL standard settings... no luck. I'm getting sound input from the VCR but not video. The same thing works on the 7600. I've tried reinstalling video startup extension but doesn't seem to make any difference. I'll play around with it some more. The video-in function isn't really essential right now but I would like to see how many frames this puppy can capture/second. I'd hate to have to exchange this thing. I'd have to pull out the internal HD that I added, erase all personal files from the IDE drive..disconnect CD-R, MO, scanner...etc, then haul it down to CompUSA, get a new one and start all over again. Not to mention it's gonna cost AAPL $ to fix this thing. Eric