🚀 go-pugleaf

I thought I'd share this, as I'd have been glad to know about it over the
past few days...

I have a 7500/100 driving a 17" Apple multiple scan monitor. I love it.

A few days ago it started to flash- just a change of colour, quite a
delicate one, to a shade of pale blue overlaid on the "normal" colours. It
seemed to be time sensitive, starting a while after fire-up, getting quite
bad and then settling back to an occasional flash. It got worse as the days
went by. Some sessions were Curious Blue all over. I tried tweaking the
lead; the monitor is as far as I can get it from the CPU, which sits on a
cupboard over a metre away (it's quieter there); no effect. I was deeply
pissed off. I was going to ask here for the address of a decent monitor
repair shop.

Then today, chatting to the techies at the cutting rooms where I'm using
Avid editing equipment, all Mac based, I brought the subject up and they
told me they'd had similar flashing problems, solved by changing the
monitor lead. So I disconnected the lead from my Mac, and tweaked the
monitor end (hard wired). Flexed and moved the lead, relaid it. Plugged up.

No more flashing.

Of course that can't possibly be a solution to all monitor flashing; this
looked far too subtle and temperature/time sensitive to be a lead fault.
But it looks like, this time, it was. Thank God...

Just in case it happens to you; it's a cheap first thing to try.

-- 
Peter