Re: dying iigs monitor

[nparker@cie.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <1993Mar30.060751.10499@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
n9230173@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Michael Juntunen) writes:
>jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:
>>[description of flaky monitor]
>
>
>Have you tried smaccking it?  Seriously I've been having some kind of a loose
>connection problem with mine and a slight smack brings it back to normalcy.

Ack.  This description sets off my alarm bells.  For a couple of years, up
until last year, my monitor was having a problem that I usually fixed by
smacking it on the side.  Finally it died completely, and I was stuck
without a color monitor until I managed to convince my mother that she
didn't need hers.

Prior to its death, the symptom was a rapidly-vibrating screen height...the
whole display would rapidly shrink to a fraction of its normal height,
leaving large black areas at the top and bottom, and then spring back to
normal.  Often when it shrunk down, it would shrink completely out of
existance, and the power light would turn off, but I could tell it was
still getting power because it made a really loud whining noise.  When it
went out like that, slapping it on the side usually fixed it.

If those are the symptoms you're having, take it to the repairperson right
away and get the flyback transformer replaced.  I waited too long to do
this, and it cost me my entire monitor...apparently when the flyback
transformer finally dies, it takes a lot of other parts with it.  I was
told that getting all the damaged parts fixed would cost more than the
monitor was worth.


(The truth is I have no idea what a "flyback transformer" does, but I was
told that my symptoms were indications of a dying one, and that this was a
problem with a lot of AppleColor RGB monitors.)

               - Neil Parker
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