Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!pur-phy!piner From: piner@pur-phy (Richard Piner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Monitor Troubles Keywords: SM124, warm-up troubles, screen shakiness Message-ID: <1704@pur-phy> Date: 7 Dec 88 11:34:50 GMT References: <257@laas.laas.fr> <3132@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <2803@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: piner@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Richard Piner) Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN Lines: 17 In article <2803@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> stowe@silver.UUCP (holly) writes: >Greg Thompson's mono monitor went *snap* and died... >We've seen three mono monitors in the last 2 months come into our store >with a blown capacitor. >Sometimes the video just shows a line, sometimes it's black when it happens. >Was the green power light still on on the front? >Anyway, if it's that same problem, it is fixable. You might try taking it >to your friendly neighborhood dealer and asking him to look at it. I've fixed this problem on my mono monitor more than one. It is a power supply filter cap that goes south. It a long way from the regulator chip (other side of the board), but it's easy to see that it's gone. Just open up the monitor and go looking for a blown cap. I mean really blown. It takes a 2.2 micro farad to replace it.