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Re: Monitor (again) ... image exploding <head on desk sobbing>

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From: Mike Tomlinson
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 00:00
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> Julian A F Bradbury <Julian@xabcs.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >It's the guy/poor sod with the Idek 17", having such *FUN*. I need Elec Eng.
> >
> >Replacement Idek:  no smells, more real colour mis-convergence (a white
> >                   line has a red vertical line 2-pixels wide by it).
> >                   BUT ironically *much* clearer text @ 1280x1024.
> >
> >                   DS DRAM -> VRAM card swap for peanuts being sorted.
> >
> >Today. 3 times so far.
> >
> > o Suddenly screen goes very bright, everything explodes in size & blurs 
> >   out then suddenly dims and comes back as normal.
> > o I hear a pop/click.
> >                                        <FX: Head on desk, quietly sobbing>

It's like demon's news server - ie f*cked.
Power supply or line output.
Demand a new one pronto.
Might be best not to use it till replacement arrives.

-- 
Mike Tomlinson (mike@jasper.demon.co.uk)
"One has to look out for engineers - they began with sewing machines and
ended up with the atomic bomb" - Marcel Pagnol, Critique des critiques
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From: Mike Tomlinson <Mike@jasper.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Monitor (again) ... image exploding <head on desk sobbing>
Date: 1995/06/23
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