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From: mldemsey@cs.arizona.edu (Matthew L. Demsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Teeny black speck on monitor
Message-ID: <1354@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 23:07:09 GMT
References: <1991Apr7.174834.14313@menudo.uh.edu> <1991Apr7.222453.17275@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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 (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
>   (Matt Emerson) writes:
> >My MegaPixel display seems to be developing some flaws. Small flaws, but
> >nevertheless noticeable and annoying ones.  These flaws are very small
> >black specks -- it looks as if they're not even pixel-sized, so I'm pretty
> >sure it's not VRAM or anything.
> 
> Do the spots appears to be etched in the phospher and
> do not change pattern from one power-up session to another?
> Sounds like a severe phospher burn caused by stationary electron
> beam. ....more... 
> In normal CRT displays this should not happen, and I think you
> have every right to expect the problem fixed, which probably
> requires replacing the display itself.



  Ok.. i got my station, etc in early January and after the first power-up
i noticed one back pixel (more like a speck, yes) in the NW quadrant of my
screen.. but this was at the time of the news group when every one was
complaining of a diagonal deviation near the menu windows on the screen;
so, i figured that all NeXT monitors are screwy in one way or another..
the speck bothers me immensely, but all windows that i have control over
their placement are placed so a black line is under the speck (i.e. 
in most cases i can ignore it..) 

 well.. my point is that if more and more people actually have this stupid
problem.. i'd love to get my monitor fixed too..


pointlessly perhaps, Loki