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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: I just pulled apart my 1080
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 20:02:46 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Message-ID: <4crt96$sde@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Eric Pot (ericpot@ripco.com) wrote:
- : My composite output has slowly been going out. Bad connection getting worse.
-
- The connectors used are held in place by the traces on the circuit board. :)
- Don't push too hard on them. :)
-
- :But lord what a pain to get to. Got it to the point where onnly the black metal
- : sheilding stood in my way, got all the screws out but was then stymied by the
- : RGB port. IT really seems to be bolted on from the inside. There is no way to
-
- I managed to take it apart and put it back together again but it was really
- tricky.
-
- : remove the sheild box and get to the surface where the composite port is
- : mounted without remving these two bolts on either side of the RGB port, but
- : there is also no way in hell to get both screws. Soooooooo? Anybody ever
- : managed to fix their composit port? Mine seems to only need resodering to the
- : board BUT I JUST CANT GET TO IT!!! Irgggg.
-
- You simply have to bite the bullet and unscrew the bolts holding the db9
- connector. Use chewing gum or tape to hold the nuts over the screw holes
- until you can get the bolt in when you want to replace it.
-
- : Hey know what else I found in there? A real cool knob labled "Focus". Does as
- : advertised... and my screen is now much sharper... neat.
-
- There is also a plastic toggle near the back on the motherboard that toggles
- between test and normal mode. In test mode, with inputs removed, it makes the
- monitor display a horisontal line. If you want to adjust the focus you might
- want to be looking at this display.
-
- Warning, do not adjust SCREEN or any of the other pots in your monitor, you may
- never get them back to the way they were.
-
- Monitors are hazzardous, don't screw with them unless you know what you are
- doing.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-