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From: keppenne@cmsun.mcs.anl.gov (Christian Keppenne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Who has already repaired a SUN-screen ?
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 7 Oct 90 21:30:00 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 323, message 10

We have a problem with our 2-years old SUN-screens (monochrome, 19", Part#
365-1043-01).

Under certain conditions (to hot ? to humid ?) they begin to flicker (it's
really a flickering, not the usual glimmering): The screen is normally
rather bright, but sometimes he gets a bit darker (maybe 30%) for some
seconds.  We made a test: the screen is bad, not the logical unit.

Now SUN-microsystems offers a kind of super service: They come with a
(repaired second-hand ?) screen, and replace ours with no delay.  The
unpleasant point is, that this "repair" costs about sFr 2000.-- (that's
about US$ 1500.--) per screen. That is almost the price of a new one, and
we have two of them.  Also it is not in our sense to "throw away" a whole
screen, just because maybe a small resistor has to be replaced.

so:

WHO KNOWS THIS FAULT AND HAS EXPERIENCE IN REPAIRING IT ?  OR IS THAT JUST
NOT POSSIBLE WITH A REASONABLE EFFORT ?

Please post a detailed instruction, as I suggest there are many other, who
have the same problem.

Greetings from Switzerland ...

strassen@iam.unibe.ch