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Is it the card or the monitor ... HELP!

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From: David Byrne
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 00:00
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Here's a problem...

I've had a Trident 8900C (1M) running a Wang 14" SVGA for a coupla years
without problems. Recently the screen started making a "Whissssss" noise
when it's powered up, so I thought the tube was heading west. Subsequently
the display started to flicker from bright to dim intermittently for about
ten minutes after powerup, and eventually lots of speckly noise would
appear every so often, so I gave up and ordered a new monitor which I've
gotta pick up this Saturday.

Last night I borrowed another monitor, and this one seemed fine. However,
after a while in Windows, the display jumped to the left of the screen,
and the horizontal/vertical align controls failed to have any effect. I
couldn't budeg the image. I powered it off overnight, and started it up
again this morning. Again everything seemed fine in DOS and Windows,
but the jump to the left happened aegin sometime this morning.

Could the problem be in the card, or do I have two duff monitors here ?

I'd rather not buy a new monitor and discover that the problem is still 
there.

Any advice or info would be greatly appreciated.


David
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From: dmb@abacus.demon.co.uk (David Byrne)
Subject: Is it the card or the monitor ... HELP!
Date: 1995/11/01
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