Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!sunybcs!ugthomps
From: ugthomps@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Gregory Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Monitor Troubles
Keywords: SM124, warm-up troubles, screen shakiness
Message-ID: <3132@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 6 Dec 88 14:43:07 GMT
References: <257@laas.laas.fr>
Reply-To: ugthomps@sunybcs.UUCP (Gregory Thompson)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Greetings,

I haven't had your problems with a monochrome monitor, but I have 
had another problem that you might want to think about.  
(Other people on the net....if you can explain what happened here
I would be most obliged if you would inform me...also this
is a word of caution )

One day while I was at work I turned on an Atari 1040ST and proceeded
about my business.  After about ten minutes I had to do a warm reboot.
The monitor was ON when I did the reboot, and upon rebooting the screen
produced a somewhat loud SNAP and the machine continued booting.  When
it was done the screen had one somewhat bright line going from 25% in
from the left to 25% in from the right in a somewhat arced (down) line.
There were several curves with the same curve as the bright one, but
they were much dimmer.  That's all the video there was. 

Since then I have not had the time to take it to our repair shop
so I do not know what is wrong with it.  Again, if anyone has any
idea what happened I would like to know.  And again, a warning 
to people out there with mono monitors (at least), if you do
a warm reboot, shut your machine off first.

           er...I mean monitor.

                                  - Greg