Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!hood From: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A2320, the 777/888 grey shade problem Message-ID: <18620@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 6 Feb 91 15:23:40 GMT References: <43816@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Reply-To: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 41 In article <43816@nigel.ee.udel.edu> tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu (Tyler Sarna) writes: >In article <18529@cbmvax.commodore.com> of >comp.sys.amiga.hardware, Scott Hood >writes: > > >Perhaps you could fix the 1/3 line problem at the same time (not >that it bothers me really, but it makes sense to kill two birds >with one stone) > Stuff deleted.... (Wow, this VI editor really works!) > >Also ("you mean there's more?"), I have what I beleive is an >actually defective 2320. When I first turn on the machine after >it's been sitting for a while (> about 4-5 minutes) the whole >video signal is "spattered" with red and cyan (not blue, cyan) dots in a >repeating, but difficult to describe, pattern. If it turn the >machine off and then back on (after >safety time but <4-5 >minutes) then everything is fine. It sounds to me like something >a capacitor isn't getting charged in time on the first try or >something (...based on my limited hardware knowledge, I'm a >"software type" :-). Any ideas? I haven't taken it to a dealer >yet since the closest one is quite a ways away. Help! :-) > The 1/3 flicker line problem is a different artifact than the level 7 to level 8 transistion problem. Also, it sounds as if you are having a fine tuning adjustment problem that is manifested during power-up. Please follow the directions in your user's manual for this ajustment. Regards, Scott Hood -- -- Scott Hood, Hardware Design Engineer (A3000 Crew), Commodore-Amiga, Inc. {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!hood hood@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com "The views expressed here are not necessarily those of my employer!"