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From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PS/2 video problem
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Date: 28 Nov 90 07:03:08 GMT
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  Well, I beleive it's a video problem... a friend of mine has a PS/2
model 25 he wants to unload on me for around $120 minus the monitor.
The problem is (simply) when turned on, a display of vertical alternating
green and pink bars (some flashing) appears and any keypress yields a
beep. And that's all it does. The service department wants $450 to fix
it, meaning they couldn't give a damn about it and just wants to replace
the whole motherboard.
  Any ideas what the problem could be and would it be repairable (can an
end user obtain the part without having to go through IBM and several
hundred dollars for a custom package)? Thanx.


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