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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 1960 Monitor - Strange Behaviour
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 15:12:09 GMT
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- Tony McKee (tony@zorro.southern.co.nz) wrote:
-
- : 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?
-
- Don't wait for the glitch to become habit, get it fixed before you use it
- anymore or it might not be fixable. A friend's 1960 had a half inch hole
- burned through it's board.
-
-
- : 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.
-
- 1960s have a bad habit of dying a bad death. My first one died a few
- months after I got it, the one I have now has been working for about 3
- years without any problem but I did open it to make sure it didn't have a
- cold sorder joint in a known bad spot.
-
- What's probably going on with yours is it's arcing across a bad sorder
- joint on the board. If that's what is going on, it will eventually burn a
- hole in the board.
-
- Chris Hall
-