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From: sjm@sun.acs.udel.edu (Steve Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: shaky 1084, also power surge (?) monitor jumping
Summary: get it fixed right away!!!
Keywords: hurry 1084 poping
Message-ID: <7656@sun.acs.udel.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 90 14:46:04 GMT
References: <10441@baldrick.udel.EDU> <10675@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: sjm@sun.acs.udel.edu (Steve Morris)
Organization: Next week I will get organized!
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In article <10675@saturn.ucsc.edu> terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) writes:
>In article <10441@baldrick.udel.EDU> "kosma@ALAN.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com writes:
>>
>>On the other hand, I have had a shaky monitor problem lately.  Every
>>twenty to thirty minutes, there's some sort of a "pop" and the screen
>>jumps, kind of like a power surge.  It *could* be a power surge--I just
>>moved into a new house so who knows what the circuits are like--but I
>
>    This is a common problem with 1084's. It is caused by hi voltage arcing 
>on the underside of the circuit board in the monitor. Check out the article
>in the recent (dated Oct of last year, but just delivered in Feb) Ami Transactor.

It is important enough to look at it right away. I had the "pop"
for about a year now. I was pretty sure that it had something to do with
the high voltage, but never bothered to check it out. Well last week I
started to loose my picture after the pop. I decided I had better take a
look at things right away. After getting the case apart and powering up
again, I got no picture at all. The most annoying part is that I had the
Transactor issue on my desk when it went dead. I had not looked at it
enough to see that a fix was right there.
	If you are not into fix it yourself, or don't feel you know
enough to try, find someone who does. If you wait too long like I did
you will have a more severe problem. IE most likely a burned out High
Voltage power supply.

Steve