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From: thomas@duteca (Thomas Okken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple 13" RGB Won't Turn On and Stay On
Message-ID: <1271@duteca4.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 91 17:51:57 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.224435.4972@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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From article <1991Mar23.224435.4972@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by balg0514@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian Allen Levine):
> The other day I went to turn on my Mac II system like I've done hundreds
> of other times.  This time, however, the monitor wouldn't turn on and
> stay on.  More specifically, everything powered up and stayed up except
> for the monitor.  The monitor's power-on light lit for a moment, and
> then went dead.  Nothing ever appeared on the monitor itself.  
> 
> I replicated this phenomenon several times within a half hour or so.  I
> then took the monitor into a local Apple dealer, and he replicated the
> problem on his Mac II system, so I left the monitor for service.  A
> couple days and telephone calls later, I learned that the service man
> was unable to replicate the problem.  Now the monitor seems to work fine
> on my home system again.  

I've been having the same problem. There has been a lot of discussion in the
past in this newsgroup on Apple 13" monitor problems, but I doubt whether this
is the same problem (the other problem was monitors spontaneously switching
off *after some use*, this problem is monitors refusing to switch on).
The problem is intermittent; sometimes I'm OK for weeks, sometimes it happens
twice a week (which is as bad as it gets; not bad enough for a service guy
to wait for, I'm afraid).
When the problem occurs, you can hear the relay inside the monitor clicking on
and immediately off again. Normally, it clicks off after a few seconds, when
the picture has come on.
Turning the monitor off (with the switch on the back) and back on a few minutes
later usually does the trick, but not always, and it is *very* annoying.

 - Thomas (thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl)