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- Newsgroups: mdc.tech,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!gregs
- From: gregs@meaddata.com (Greg Smith)
- Subject: Re: Problem with a PC VGA monitor
- References: <1992Sep3.174539.6054@meaddata.com>
- Sender: gregs@meaddata (Greg Smith)
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:28:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.132818.20258@meaddata.com>
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- In article <1992Sep3.174539.6054@meaddata.com>, gregs@meaddata.com (Greg Smith) writes:
- |> I have a Princeton Graphics VGA monitor that has recently started to act
- |> strangely. The image (no matter if it's text mode or X graphics mode)
- |> is fuzzy, almost a "double image", similiar to a slight ghost image one
- |> might get on a television. My question is what piece might be the
- |> culprit. The monitor? The card? Or the cable?
- |>
- |> If it's the monitor, is this something that would be worth exploring getting
- |> repaired rather than looking at a new monitor.
- |>
- |> Thanks for you help,
- |>
- |> --
- |> Greg Smith
- |>
- |> DISCLAIMER: My ideas are entirely my own unless MDC decides to patent them.
- |> I am not empowered to speak for Mead Data Central or Mead Corporation.
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- The solution as pointed out via Email by Julius C. Chang is to adjust a well
- hidden and not externally accessable knob called "FOCUS". The knob has screw
- slots in the top so it can be mistaken for a fastener at first glance.
-
- I feel a little stupid,
-
- --
- Greg Smith
-
- DISCLAIMER: My ideas are entirely my own unless MDC decides to patent them.
- I am not empowered to speak for Mead Data Central or Mead Corporation.
-