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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: dead mono monitor
Keywords: atari, monitor, hardware blues
Message-ID: <5129@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Aug 90 18:37:57 GMT
References: <2051@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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In article <2051@idunno.Princeton.EDU> tasayco@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Tasayco Hakia) writes:
>Hi! Yesterday my monitor died, or at least it seems that way. It seems
>to be still getting power because the green light is on, but the
>screen is totally blank. I would appreciate any help like hints of 
>what could be wrong and how to fix it or advice about sending it to
>Atari for repair, or whether any TV repairman would repair it, or any
>experience you have had with dead monitors.

Well I guess this as good a time as any to voice my sorrows too.
We have two SM124 monitors here with the same problem. We have carefully
checked them against working ones and it looks like the line output
transformers are dead. We have been waiting for months for a local Atari
dealer to get us replacements but nothing has turned up yet. The dealer
has quite a few SM124s waiting for repair and says he can't get the LOPTs
for them. However he can get LOPT's for SM125's (The Tilt 'n Swivel monitor)
but they are no use to SM124's.

Unless we can get our hands on SM124 LOPT's we might have to buy new monitors
and I don't want to get SM124's if I can't repair them. SM125's seem not to be
on sale any more.

BTW SM124's are made for Atari by Goldstar. Anyone know if they will supply
the parts?

>	Francisco Figueirido

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