[G4] Monitor problem

[Les Berkley]

Hello!

Since you seem to speak "not as the scribes, but with authority" I tend to
believe you. I doubt I can just drop a power supply in there, so I may look
for an LCD. (Not too soon, alas.)

The Mac is just a useful toy at present (there are four Winboxes of much
newer vintage in the house) so I'll look for the best cheapie I can find.
(Dell refurb, maybe...)

Les


On 10/22/06 5:57 PM, "Ben Smith" <ben.smith at ntlworld.com> wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:09:12 -0400
> From: Les Berkley <wogears at fast.net>
> Subject: [G4] Monitor problem
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> Hello all:
> 
> I just getting back into Macs because someone gave me a Sawtooth G4 400. It
> came with a 17" Apple Studio, which is where my problem is. The monitor has
> this weird behavior. When I open a fairly large window (any app will do), so
> that the scroll bar is close to the right edge (~4 inches or less), there is
> an odd wavy distortion in the window and the black edge of the screen, at
> the vertical location of the scroll tab. If I move the scroll tab up or
> down, the distortion moves with it! The distortion is greatest when the
> scroll tab is smallest (i.e. long window).
> 
> Has anyone seen anything like this? I figure the display has lived quite a
> while, so it may simply be failing. Degaussing doesn't help, nor does
> changing refresh rate or res.
> 
> TIA,
> Les
> 
> This is a sign that the power supply regulation is failing, it is caused by
> the smoothing capacitors drying out.
> any half decent monitor servicing company can sort this out, however a new LCD
> monitor would probably be cheaper these days.
> Ben.
> 
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