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 Lines: 26 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