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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Weird monitor problem
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Date: 21 Jun 89 20:19:27 GMT
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>an hour of use, something inside it starts this incredibly annoying
>high-pitched whine.  Whacking the monitor will fix it for about ten minutes,
>but the noise soon returns.
>
>Any ideas what is causing this?

I had a TV which did that once.  By and by, the power supply melted itself
into a glob and shorted out entirely.  Dying transformers can complain
audibly.  If that's the cause, eventual labor costs will be much lower if
some expensive per hour tech doesn't have to spend a lot of time *literally*
scrapping hardened transformer innards out of the monitor case.

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