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From: hermens@ted.cs.uidaho.edu
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Subject: Re: Apple 13" RGB Won't Turn On and Stay On
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Date: 28 Mar 91 17:15:14 GMT
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I was able to fix a monitor that did the same exact things listed in the
following articles.  I am curious to find out what others have done to
repair their Apple monitors and if there are others who have suffered
this problem.  Please e-mail.

Leonard

In article <1271@duteca4.UUCP> thomas@duteca (Thomas Okken) writes:
>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)