monitor bliss... :-(


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Posted by saltlyck on 4, 2000 at 3:31 AM:

Well, I have an old wells gardner k4600 series monitor and it is giving me a bitch of a time. My problem is that I can turn the monitor on and for a few seconds it looks fine then it faintly goes to black. For a while it was missing blue but pulling the pcb off the neck and putting it back solved it for a while. Now it needs to be jiggled to get blue for the few seconds it works after turning it on. I have re-capped it and I have re-solderd all of the connections to all pcb's. Same problem, after about 16 hours of troubleshooting, I have had it! Now heres the weird part, I can get more brightness out of it by turning the focus knob... Jiggling the neck pcb gives me brightness from time to time too. I am using an ATI rage pro 2mb card on the pc, I don't think it is the problem. I am positive it is a monitor problem, I think It might be a good idea to scrap the monitor since it looks like it will be a future headache even if I get the damn thing working. By the license on the side of the machine it looks like it was in service for about 8 years, is there no hope for it? Any Ideas?




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