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From: erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: My Monitor Keeps Falling Asleep!
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Date: 6 Feb 91 18:15:47 GMT
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In article <20912@know.pws.bull.com> ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes:


>   Over the past three weeks my monitor has developed a habit of falling
>asleep on me (screen goes pure black), and has to be hit sharply on the left
>side to wake it up. :) The odd thing here is that I can't "knock it out" by
>hitting it the same way, only bring it back to life. This would seem to rule
>out a short, but brings up more questions. Any help much needed.


My 2002 exhibits the same symptoms.  In addition, the power LED grows dim
when the screen is black.  Also, turning the monitor off and on does not
always (but does sometimes) cure the problem.  Finally, due to the lack
of 15kHz whine, I suspect that the high voltage circuit is failing in
some way.

Any tips?  Is this related to the popping problem of C-A monitors?  Will
doping the corona wire and grounding the badly-placed heat sink cure this
behaviour?

Thanks
 -ethan

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