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Re: Monitor flashing

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 00:00
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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <1d8qvqj.1dj2kb16sf6whN@p25.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
> real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:
> 
> >Very odd.  Maybe it was something to do with a dodgy connector?  It's
> >possible that it'd be affected by temperature etc., but...
> 
> Well, as I say I'd tried wiggling things about at the start. But it was
> only taking the whole thing apart properly and reassembling that did it. So
> far- some hours of use later- it's still fine. It was quite possibly some
> corrosion on a pin or something. I've no idea. But it worked.

Which is the important thing.  I tend to squirt things with switch
cleaner when in doubt - it's cleared up all sorts of strange faults in
the past, but nothing like the one you've just mentioned.  Dirt does
seem likely somehow, but it's damned odd.

Rowland.

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From: real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar (Rebecca and Rowland)
Subject: Re: Monitor flashing
Date: 1998/05/10
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