Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!hsi!derek From: derek@hsi.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Monitor Troubles Keywords: SM124, warm-up troubles, screen shakiness Message-ID: <211@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 88 13:45:50 GMT References: <257@laas.laas.fr> Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT Lines: 20 In article <257@laas.laas.fr>, ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: > Just the other day my monochrome SM124 monitor on my 1040 ST started > waking up flakily! Upon turning on my system the monitor would > present a shaky screen during boot which would last a few minutes and > then go away. The shakiness was most visible around the edges. Is > some part giving signs that it's wearing out? My monitor is not > anymore under guarantee so any information that I could look at (I'm > not a specialist, but my friends ...) would be appreciated. > I had the very same problem with my Commodore monitor for my C=64. I never did figure out why it did it. I would just let my monitor 'warm-up' for about five minutes, after which it would work perfectly. -- |Derek Lee-Wo, Health Systems International, New Haven, CT 06511. | |E-mail address :- ...!harvard!yale!hsi!derek. Phone :- (203)777-3125. | |"Hear me now, believe me later". |