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From: jarvis@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Jarvis Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: A VR299 monitor with a magical cover! WHY?
Message-ID: <6150@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 May 91 20:51:23 GMT
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Reply-To: jarvis@mit-caf.UUCP (Jarvis Jacobs)
Organization: Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT
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Greetings:

SETUP:    We have a VR299 monitor connected to a DEC station 5200.
      

PROBLEM:  The VR299 monitor seems to fail on several occasions.
          The monitor is completely dark and blank, e.g. no cursor.

TRIED SOLUTIONS: 

          1] Turning the VR299 monitor off. 
          2] Resetting the CPU.
          3] Combination of 1 and 2.

          4] Degaussing*
          5] Changing the intensity (brightness)*

THE SOLUTION:
 
          We have found that removing the VR299 monitor's
          plastic cover reactives the monitor.  This solution has
          worked every time.  It worked again today.  We had a
          power outage. This solution has worked on two different
          VR299 monitors.

WHY:      Could you give me a scientific reason
          why the DEC's plastic cover affects the  VR299 operation?


DEC magic!  
  Take out your the magical screw driver to get your VR299 back
                      
                                               jarvis

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