Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!39clocks From: 39clocks@violet.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: DA Handler beeps; SE/30 screen probs. Summary: Return defective macs Keywords: SE/30 screens, 90 warantees, defective macs. Message-ID: <1989Oct3.062401.11558@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 06:24:01 GMT References: <221@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> <4466@internal.Apple.COM> <15876@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <13904@well.UUCP> <15907@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: Peter Marinac Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 36 In article <15907@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> danno@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Your host... Dieter) writes: >I'll find out tomorrow when I exchange my SE/30 for one without a screwy screen >and load up the internal hard disk (yes, I got one of those 80s.) Has anyone >else had a problem with the SE/30 4meg/80 screen? Mine is pinched in lower >left corner, and bows in upper right corner-- gives a "perspective" effect. I >brought to our repair shop for tweaking, and they said they just put in a >new one. Well, it has the same problem. Could the power supply be improperly >shielded and doing weird magnetic things? That's all I can think of. As a matter of fact, I had almost the exact same problem that you had. After attempting, unsuccessfully, to have the machine fixed at the apple dealer where I made the purchase, I called apple. They told me that I could have the repair done at any certified apple dealer (under warantee), so I took it to a store that claims to be the largest retailer of Macs in northern california. They gave me a new tube and it's quite square ('er rectangular). The techie that did the work told me that compact mac monitors are not as square as they used to be (128k,512,+, etc era). I have a hunch that whowever did the work for you either didn't and said they did, or put in a new tube but forgot what your original complaint was. I say take it back, especially if it is still under warantee. If apple continues to offer a measly 90 day warantee on it's products I'm going to make absolutely certain that future macs I buy are perfect. That means bringing them in to report a problem no matter how minor it is. Even though it is a hassle, it has the net effect of extending the warantee period, (apple is obligated to repair a defect as long as it was reported within the 90 period). I doubt that it is a shielding problem. If it were, then the vast majority of SE/30s would exibit the same problem. Sorry, I should have warned you that there would be a flame attached to this response. By the way, the reason the original dealer wouldn't fix the mac for me was because he "didn't think that the screen had a _radical_ problem". I couldn't get it through his head that reading text that waves across the screen is annoying and very fatiguing. Peter