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From: griffin@aludra.usc.edu (Dennis Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Death of a Monitor
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Date: 10 Sep 89 23:26:00 GMT
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    Hiya, I'm new here, so I don't know if this topic has been beaten to
death yet, but I am an owner of a dying 1084 monitor (magnavox type).
From what I understand, the problem I have is quite common:  the monitor
simply "shuts off" by itself every once in a while, and I hafta give it
a real stiff WHACK on the side to make it come back on.  One day I got tired
of beating my monitor, so I took the back cover off and started fiddling.
Now don't give me the standard warnings, I know all about them, I'm a CPE.
But anyway, I noticed that if you depress or raise the back left (when
facing from the front) of the PC board in the bottom of the case, then you
can turn the monitor on and off at will.  I assume that this wuld mean that
there is a problem with the PC board, like some kind of manufacturing defect.
    A friend of mine fixed the problem with his Magnavox monitor (which looks
exactly the same) by jamming paper under the shielding on the PC board, thus
elevating the corner.  There MUST be a better way to fix the problem, and
since it is a pretty common one, I'm hoping somebody out there can help
me with a fix.	It's just too bad that the defect showed up after the
warrantee was over.
   If there is no fix, are the "new" monitors any better?  I understand that
Commodore canned the old manufacturers because of bad quality, but are the
new monitors likely to fizzle out quickly, also?

dennis

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dennis griffin                                griffin@aludra.usc.edu
                      another hopeless fool