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From: eb2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric James Bales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SCARY Monitor problem
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Date: 26 Oct 89 02:29:01 GMT
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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc: 25-Oct-89 Re: SCARY Monitor
> problem Ken Snyder@hplsla.HP.COM (473)


> > 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

  I also have this problem with my new monitor that was replaced only a
couple of weeks ago.  The new monitor sits in exactly the same position
as the old monitor, and is the same model and was made only two months
prior to my old monitor.  My old monitor did not have this problem.  The
new one does.  Why would the hard drive cause a problem with only one of
two identical monitors?

                                                        -Eric Kirkbride-