on 5/26/04 3:30 PM, Nat Hall wrote: >Anyway, the monitor display is pretty blurry. Enough so that reading >normal-size text at 640x480 hurts your eyes after a while. But not so bad >that you can't tell what you're looking at. It also gets worse the longer >the monitor is powered on. It actually starts out pretty crisp and clear >when you first boot up/turn on the monitor but progressively gets worse >until it seems to plateau at a certainly degree of blurriness.
The focus adjustment is hidden inside the case. You can drill a hole in the case to make it accessible without taking the back off. The hole needs to be drilled 4 1/4 inches to the right of the top right corner of the rectangle that encloses the power cord. My blog katsmacs.blogspot.com has info about this monitor -- click on the link "Fixing the 15-inch multiscan". The most common problem I've seen is loss of one color. Fixing that is not particularly easy, but can result in a perfect monitor that lasts a long time. The focus adjustment is easier (if you drill the hole), but tends to be a temporary stopgap before the monitor dies altogether. At the school we had one that gradually got worse as you describe. I adjusted it for best focus when warmed up, and left it powered on all the time. We got about a year of additional use out of it (running at 824x632 for viewing web pages). Then one day it just went totally dark -- no picture, no green light, no yellow light, nothing. http://katsmacs.blogspot.com/ -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> 1st PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
