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Re: Help!!! No red on VGA color monitor

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From: "Sean Christopher Timm"
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:13
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zchen@phys.ksu.edu  writes:
> 
> I recently started to have some problem with my VGA color monitor. When
> I turn on the power of the computer, everything would be OK. After
> about a few minutes, there will be no red on the monitor. Other
> functions will be just fine. But the screen looks funny, I mean,
> colorwise. After the computer stays on for a couple of hours, the red
> will come back. I first thought it was the video card and I bought one
> (another way to waste money). I still have the same problem so it is
> not the video card. The computer and monitor is a 3 year-old 286. It
> has been very lightly used. I use it mostly as a terminal and play
> games. Please help me out. Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> --
> _____________________________________________________________________________
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Zheng Chen
> zchen@phys.ksu.edu

A friend of a friend had the same problem about this time last
year.  I beleive that he found the problem to be a virus.

-Sean Timm
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From: sct2m@Virginia.EDU ("Sean Christopher Timm")
Subject: Re: Help!!! No red on VGA color monitor
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