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Re: Problem with a PC VGA monitor

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From: Greg Smith
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 13:28
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In article <1992Sep3.174539.6054@meaddata.com>, gregs@meaddata.com (Greg Smith) writes:
|> I have a Princeton Graphics VGA monitor that has recently started to act
|> strangely.  The image (no matter if it's text mode or X graphics mode)
|> is fuzzy, almost a "double image", similiar to a slight ghost image one
|> might get on a television.  My question is what piece might be the
|> culprit.  The monitor?  The card?  Or the cable?
|> 
|> If it's the monitor, is this something that would be worth exploring getting
|> repaired rather than looking at a new monitor.
|> 
|> Thanks for you help,
|> 
|> -- 
|> Greg Smith
|> 
|> DISCLAIMER:  My ideas are entirely my own unless MDC decides to patent them.
|> I am not empowered to speak for Mead Data Central or Mead Corporation.

The solution as pointed out via Email by Julius C. Chang is to adjust a well
hidden and not externally accessable knob called "FOCUS".  The knob has screw
slots in the top so it can be mistaken for a fastener at first glance.

I feel a little stupid,

-- 
Greg Smith

DISCLAIMER:  My ideas are entirely my own unless MDC decides to patent them.
I am not empowered to speak for Mead Data Central or Mead Corporation.
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From: gregs@meaddata.com (Greg Smith)
Subject: Re: Problem with a PC VGA monitor
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Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:28:18 GMT
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