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- From: joewald@crl.com (Joseph Waldvogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 1960 Monitor - Strange Behaviour
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 06:05:19 GMT
- Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
- Message-ID: <2477.6582T1322T743@crl.com>
- References: <tony.03q7@zorro.southern.co.nz>
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- >Hi there Folks - what do you make of this? Turned on our trusty 1960
- >this morning only to hear it make a weird crackling noise - and then a
- >'pop' sound! This event occurred during the WB 3.1's 'black screen'
- >boot-up period, before the EGS logo screen appears. (We've got an EGS
- >Spectrum card in the A3000.) I thought it prudent (gentlemanly way of
- >saying, "FUCK! PANIC!" ;-) ) to shut the monitor off immediately, not
- >even waiting to see if the boot screen made it to the glass.
-
- >A few minutes later - and after bringing the fire extinguisher in from
- >the kitchen - I felt sufficiently brave enough to crank everything up
- >again, "just to see what might happen" - although wifey was a tad
- >reticent about the possibility of setting the bedroom on fire. This time
- >there were no strange sounds from the 1960. The A3000 booted normally
- >except that the screen was a kind of kaleidoscope of rainbow hues,
- >through which the WB 3.1 screen appeared reasonably clearly, but was
- >kind of pivoted about centre, about 10 degrees counter-clockwise. Talk
- >about things that make you go, "Hmmmm..."
-
- >Well, it wasn't much fun trying to work with a screen display like that
- >(unless you're ripped), so I turned everything off again. But I was
- >curious... what if I fired everything up again... (you know the
- >feeling...) Well, whaddya know? You'd think nothing had happened - a
- >completely normal boot-up. The 1960 is now working fine - although I
- >can't help but feel that some sort of dreadful axe is hanging above its
- >little, friendly, square head.
-
- >Now, if this glitch becomes a habit, the 1960 will, of course, have to
- >go into the repair shop - there's at least one that does 'em way down
- >here in Christchurch, New Zealand; however, I am now very curious: Given
- >the above facts, anyone out there got a notion as to just what the hell
- >happened here this morning?
-
-
- >PS: The 1960 was bought brand-new just over 3 years ago and has always
- > performed wonderfully. We keep it clean and its cord and cable are
- > firmly seated.
-
- I think the 1960 is/was one of commodores Crappiest monitors they SOLD! I
- have one myself and have had my share of problems with it, cost me too much to
- just get rid of though so I live with it. Your monitor sounds like you may
- have some bad/loose solder connections. Hell I just got my TC Fixed today it
- was doing some funking things, the repair man just resoldered a bunch of the
- connections again, not it's working 100% correctly now.
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