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From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Monitor Noise...
Keywords: Help! Monitor vibration damage
Message-ID: <188@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 09:29:17 GMT
References: <5140@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <5140@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
(Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) writes:
        .
Deleted reference to droping Apple Colour Monitor (ouch!)...
        .
     | When it is powered up after being 'cold' (i.e. off for more than
     | two-three minutes or so) it produces a LOUD vibration,
     | which drowns out the usual Mac II chord and sounds as if a
     | moving part is involved.

What you are hearing is the standard degauser, built into the Apple
monitor (sounds like a VERY loud vibrating thud on mine.. mine has never
fallen  but it traveled all the way from Australia to the US with me.. and
lived to tell the tale :-) ). I remember the first time I ever turned the
monitor on, I thought it had blow up!.. scared the.. (well lets not get
into that).  I think the Apple Colour Monitor has sent more than one sane
person diving for the power cord the first time they turn one on.. :-)

You may find that the fall did actually jar loose a part within the
monitor, and with the standard vibration that the degauser causes, it now
sounds much worse (if it's a real rattle, I'd have it checked out by a
technician, maybe they can tighten things up inside).

     |  -JBZImmerman!

Stu.

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