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From: eb2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric James Bales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: IBM 8513 monitor
Message-ID: <IZDu0te00UjV05Ikpj@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 89 22:46:17 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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  I have an IBM PS/2 color monitor (model 8513-001).  The 
monitor is about two years old and the power supply went bad.  
The computer store seemed to indicate that this was a common 
problem with the 8513 (they knew what the problem was right 
away, and they knew about how much to fix it without looking, 
and I only had to wait two days for them to get a monitor in 
which was being repaired for the same problem so that they 
could swap me for mine).  This repair cost about $260 + tax 
and, for a college student, that is a hard-hitting amount of 
money.
  What I want to know is:  What can I do to prevent this from 
happening again as I can not afford that kind of expense every 
two years or so...
 
  The monitor that mine was swapped for also exhibits that 
sparking and split-second-screen-blanking characteristic which 
someone else mentioned on this board, and it doesn't matter 
what software package is running.  My previous monitor did not 
exhibit this.
 
                                               -Eric Kirkbride-
                                                Carnegie Mellon
Disclaimer: MINE!  ALL, MINE!
 
"I have a firm belief that all computers are the children of 
Satan...", Shannon Cline