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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Portrait Display problem
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.193844.141@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 90 19:38:44 GMT
References: <1990Oct10.155711.7580@tandem.com> <4185@lib.tmc.edu>
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In article <4185@lib.tmc.edu>, drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
|> In article <1990Oct10.155711.7580@tandem.com> goodill_eric@tandem.com 
|> (Eric Goodill) writes:
|> > My portrait display has been quiet, but too has a downward slope on the 
|> > left side.  I went to an Apple dealer, and he tried to adjust it, but he 
|> > said everything he tried made it worse.
|> 
|> I know this sounds ridiculous, but try turning the monitor 90 degrees so 
|> that it faces either the left or right side of your desk. If the problem 
|> disappears, the problem is caused by an interaction with the Earth's 
|> magnetic field, indicating that the monitor case is poorly shielded.
|> 
|> I think I've heard of a shielding spray you can use inside the case, if 
|> you're daring. Two other cures would be to rearrange your furniture so 
|> that the computer faces another direction or moving to the Moon.
|> 
I tried the reorientation "fix" before taking my monitor back to the
shop - this wasn't the problem. The concensus from other replies to my
original question is that it is possible to adjust some magnets on the end
of the tube, but Apple technicians aren't supposed to do this...
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu