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Re: IIGS monitor flickering
- Subject: Re: IIGS monitor flickering
- From: bla@bbs.ausom.oz.au (Bill Agius)
- Date: 4 Sep 1993 01:56:07 +1000
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne
- References: <2626h7$ffb@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <263gat$a2c@pith.uoregon.edu>
- Reply-to: bla@ausom.oz.au
>> Uh oh, my GS' monitor seems to be developing one of those
>>infamous quirks. The screen has recently been 'jumping' and
>>flickering occasionally.
>top and bottom of the screen, and sometimes it would black out
>completely. When it blacked out, I could usually cure it by
>giving it a sharp slap on the side of the case. This state
>persisted for a couple of years, and then
>suddenly it blacked out for good, and no amount of slapping could
>restore it to life.
>The problem, I was informed, was a faulty flyback transformer.
>I was told that if I had gotten it replaced during the couple
>of years before it died for good, it would have been relatively cheap.
Me and another _3_ of my gs friends thankyou for the info Neil,
We will stop slapping our monitors and have a 'peek' inside.
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Regards Bill Agius Apple IIgs P.D. Librarian for AUSOM
....................____/TT`___ PO Box 1071 Narre Warren MDA 3805
Chevvies forever! "-O--------O" Victoria Australia. (bla@ausom.oz.au)
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