At the very end of the quest where it asks you to solve the puzzle, I attempted to cast both/either the frost and fire spells to move the panels, but to no avail. I spent a good 20 minutes trying to do this. I did some googling and apparently I am not the only one stuck at this part. Please fix this! THIS IS A COLLEGE OF WINTERHOLD QUEST

im having problems as well but im on pc

*Spoilers*

Dual cast frost in fire at the same time with one in each hand(crystal has to be in).
Hold the dual cast while the lights move.
When the lights stop moving, go up to the switches and line up the circle on the wall with the corresponding light beam.
Once they are lined up the puzzle is solved.

If that doesn't work - possible glitch.

Tried that, but it still doesn't work

I am now 100% certain this is a glitch, my brother who has the PC version and previously completed the quest confirmed that this is a glitch for the panels simply refuse to move.

I had a similar glitch issue with these silly fisher-price puzzles. mine was the first one you encounter with the snake and the fish. they just wouldn't turn when I pressed A. So after doing some hard looking around, I left the building, did a shimmy dance, came back and all of a sudden it worked. I think the game just didn't know I entered the ruins the first time.
Hope it works, or they patch it before I get to that quest!

got the same problem...hope they fix it, im +20h deep into the game

the same thing was happening to be but i just aimed the spells a little higher above the crystal and it worked.

Yep. Level 25 character. 30+ hours into the game.

Can't seem to shift a fricken crystal mirror with level 1 magic.........

Obviously, I will not be restarting a new character for the sake of completing this quest. God I really hope this gets patched soon.

This will prolly be in the secon patch, and here i was looking forward to being arch mage... Guess ill do dark brotherhood, someone thank god hasnt yet spoiled it for me but i did hear you get to do stupendous things

My last real save was right before I started the mission so I am probably just going to replay it and hope it works.

Thank you DemonPlasma! After a couple of hours of frustration (and friggin freezing/burning all parts of the crystal apparatus) I hit these boards. Your suggestion about aiming above the crystal was on target (pun intended) For the first time instead of watching the beams move between two opposite out of tune positions the beams moved in progressive adjustments. I aimed too high over the crystal at first, but when I adjusted to just at the top dge it worked.

So anyone knows if they are going to patch this ? Im 20+ hours in and I wanted to finish the mage guild first since I play as a battlemage but I can't progress on it because of that, really annoying.