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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Monitor Noise...
Keywords: Help! Monitor vibration damage
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Date: 6 Jan 89 15:24:27 GMT
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In article <5140@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) writes:
<Recently, my Mac II...
<Applecolor RGB monitor...
<has developed a nasty trait: 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. I know of no moving parts in the monitor, at
<least none that might produce this, but does anyone out there have any
<ideas?  I don't know how to escribe the noise better; it lasts from
<between a half second to a second, almost like a wheel that was scraping
<hard against a surface was coming up to speed.  Excpet that it is
<definately a vibration.  Ah well. As usual and of course, thank you very
>much for any information y'all might have.

Very Interesting. I'm having a vibration problem with my E Machines Big
Picture. It starts all by itself or when someone walks by and jiggles
the floor (2nd story, feels like an earthquake all the time). At first I
thought it was the weight of the monitor interferring with the disk drives
and started moving the monitor. The act of moving it makes the vibration
stop, though I may have to do it several times.

Is there something about monitors in general that can cause this grating
sound?

Shirley Kehr