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Thanks to all I finally fixed it by Zapping the pram at restart with the restore disc in place and during the few seconds when the smiley icon was on the screen restarted from the CD. This was Ok until the end of the restore process and I retarted the machine and the screen went bananas again...

Thanks all you guys. Zapped the PRAM and got the smiley icon followed by the Welcome screen and thought 'its fixed'. Dismay when after about 5 seconds the screen returned to a mess of lines just like before. Any other strategies?

Yeah. That's what I thought would do the trick. Whenever I've had a problem before the Restore CD has got me out of trouble. This time it doesn't work. The screen is still a mass of horizontal flickering lines and I can't see the mouse pointer or anything recognisable. But you can tell that the...

I hope someone out there can help me. I have a 6500-300 PowerMac. I stupidly reset the screen resolution to some Simulscan setting and can no longer reset it 'cos the screen is a total mess. I need to get back to the standard 640 X 480 using the keyboard as far as I can tell but have no idea how...