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From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac][ Monitor Shimmer, anyone?
Message-ID: <1003@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 88 21:37:24 GMT
References: <648@levels.sait.edu.au>
Reply-To: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Renato Iannella of (mari@levels.sait.edu.au) writes:
     | Has any Mac][ owners noticed their AppleColor (sic)
     | monitor having a tendency to "Shimmer" when first turned
     | on ?

Yep that's what they all do.

     | The monitor will shimmer for a couple of minutes then stop
     | and behave it self until it is turned off then on again.

If it's shimmering for more than a few seconds, you have a problem, but
anything up to maybe 7 seconds would be standard.

     | The technician at our dealers has had the monitor in for
     | service twice.  Both times he claims he has fixed it!

There may have been nothing to fix.  When the power is applied to the
AppleColour (sp.. I'm from Australia also) monitor it degauses as part of
it's start up sequence.. this will cause the diplay to shimmer.

If it is annoying to you during intermitant shutdowns and powerups, you
might like to power the monitor separately from the base unit.

     | Thanks in advance,

Hope this has helped mate.

Stu.