Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!itcyyz!xrtll!silver
From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Subject: Re: IBM 8513 monitor problems -- all 20 of them
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Yeah, right.
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 91 20:36:27 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.203627.11051@xrtll.uucp>
References: <27676.27822b59@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <91008.145719TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET>

In comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware, TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III) typed:
$In article <27676.27822b59@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, huff@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu says:
$>Is anybody experiencing problems with IBM 8513 monitors?  We have recently
$>received approx 20 of them, each with a less than desirable display.  When
$>a white screen is displayed, e.g. Windows or MS Word's print preview, we
$>get a blue blotch on the left side and a brown blotch on the right.  These
$>are definitely noticeable!
$I fixed my blotches by rubbing a refrigerator magnet around the screen.
$Does this cause any harm to the monitor?

   Most decent monitors have a built-in degausser which should take care of
the problem over a period of time.  Rubbing a fairly weak magnet around the
screen shouldn't cause any permanent damage, though it might exacerbate the
original problem.  And I don't know if the 8513 has a degausser, since (IMHO)
it doesn't fall into the category of "decent" monitors.  One of our clients
has had _so_ many problems with the darn things going fuzzy that my instinct
is to use them as boat anchors.
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