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From: DAVID%COUSTEAU@cs.umass.edu (David Forster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: re: Monitor adjustment question?
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Date: 31 May 89 19:15:41 GMT
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> The characters in the last character position on my SM124 (mono) monitor are
> starting to be squished (skinny) and are extra bright. Does anyone know what
> adjustment (if any) can be made to fix this?

Oh-oh!  My mono monitor (r.i.p.) had this problem for a few months, until it
finally gave up the ghost.  I wasn't home when it conked, but my wife said it
made an arc-ing sound and smelled burnt.  I took it in for repair and they
replaced a fuse (they were really a PC shop). When I took it back home, it
lasted for about a half hour before the screen image started to squish, wrap,
and then suddenly collapse, never more to return.  When I took it back to them
they refunded the repair money, but declared they wouldn't be able to fix it.
It seems the flyback transformer is bad, and each monitor make uses a different
one.  You'd better invest in a new monitor now, so you can just pull the plug
and swap them the day yours goes.

- David
forster@cs.umass.edu  /  forster@umass.bitnet