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From: curci@ds1.scri.fsu.edu (Raymond Curci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: PS/2 video problem
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Date: 28 Nov 90 20:32:15 GMT
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In article <782@pdxgate.UUCP> berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) writes:
>
>  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.

You might try running the PS/2 diagnostics and see what it says is
wrong.  To run the diagnostic, perform the following steps:

1. Boot your PS/2 reference disk
2. Pull up the secret diagnostic/low level hard disk format menu
   by pressing control-A
3. Choose the diagnostic option.

Hope this is of some help,

Ray Curci
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