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From: korn@anableps.berkeley.edu (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple 13" Color Monitor wobbles
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Date: 24 Nov 89 22:45:04 GMT
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In <445@tci.bell-atl.com>, mitchell@tci.bell-atl.com (Rob Mitchell) said:  
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>	The whole image on my Color Monitor wobbles.  It acts as though
>there may be a magnetic field around, but there isn't....
>
>	Any ideas?

There is a known problem with Apple Color monitors within a certain
serial number range of early serial numbers that exhibit this problem.
About 2 years ago there was a Service Notice on AppleLink to this effect,
saying that Apple Dealers should repair/replace the monitors at no cost
to people who brought them in.

My monitor was in the serial number range and exhibited the problem 
intermittantly, so I brought it in to my repair shop at U.C. Berkeley.
It never happened for them, so they refused to repair it.  I got real
busy and couldn't deal with it then, and now it happens so infrequently
that I haven't bothered.  Instead, however, my monitor will no longer
show a true black and has a faint border around the actual image on the
screen (as if the brightness were up too high except it's not).  Lacking
time, I haven't pushed hard on any of the local dealers to fix it.

Perhaps your monitor is in that serial number range?  Perhaps you can find
an Apple Dealer who is willing to honor the service notice (which, as far
as I can find, is no longer on AppleLink)?

Peter
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