Re: dying iigs monitor

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <1p922p$154@pith.uoregon.edu> nparker@cie.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker) writes:
>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:

>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.

Mine had this problem recently.  10 minutes of resoldering the connections
at the flyback and its better than new (big kudos to Scott Gentry for
suggesting this fix!).  

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