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mw2k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Asher Weissman) writes:
>malczews@girtab.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) posts:
>>Three or four times a year (it just happened not 20 minutes ago), the color
>>monitor on my Mac II just powers off, leaving the cpu active.  This particula
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>>...
>>hum).  Powering down the cpu, and then restarting it and the monitor (with
>>the monitor button pushed in as per normal)resulted in normal operation again
>
>	I too have had my monitor fail as listed above, but much more
>frequently, about once or twice a week.  What I normally do is turn off only
>the monitor for about five minutes, and then turn it back on, and it works
>fine.
>	I suspect that our power supplies are failing.  At the moment I dont
>feel like shelling out another couple hundred dollars to fix it, although I
>suspect I will have to do it soon.

My AppleColor monitor failed not too long ago.  One day I just walked into the
room and moved the mouse to deactivate the screen saver.  When nothing happened
I noticed that the power light was off.  Nothing I did would make that
monitor say on longer that about a half a second.  It cost me $200 inc. labor
to get it fixed.  It was the power supply.  It was a little over a year old.
I hope yours lasts longer than mine did.

On a related note, my monitor has always made a very nasty (and sometimes very
loud) buzz when I first turn it on.  I mentioned it to the tech who replaced
the power supply (hoping it was a design defect = free repair, maybe) but he
just shrugged it off.  Anybody else's monitor do the same thing?

Myron
Myron-Meier@cup.portal.com