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From: kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SCARY Monitor problem
Message-ID: <5190051@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 89 17:25:23 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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> Seems like it's time to get out the aluminum foil (foiled again!)
> Wrap the foil around the monitor, and ground the foil with an
> alligator clip wire to the chassis of the machine.

  Since the problem is almost assuredly magnetic, foil won't help in the
least.  Where is the nearest disc drive?  Is your monitor sitting on your
computer?  That is the most likely cause of the problem, the magnetic
field from the disc drive motor.  It used to drive me nuts too.

Ken