> >From: Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>Besides - would they bother on monitors? It strikes me the average
>>user doesn't make 11000 changes to his/her monitor, I expect SOME
>>people do but only if the monitor is moved between computers
>>regularly.
>
>The middle schoolers where I work LOVE the jog dial monitor controls on the
>Gateway monitors.
>
>Admittedly, so do I, but I don't set the tilt, keystone, and pincushion
>adjustments to insane values when nobody is looking.
>
>If you want the true test of how long it takes a computer part to wear out,
>put it in a school lab.
I guess so.... My Dad ran a training lab for teachers for about 5
years and I have had my fair share of experience of 'oh not another
one!' and 'who the hey set the brightness on this to this level', and
that was TEACHERS! Before that he ran a mobile bus with computers on
that travelled around schools providing them with about 12 computers
that they wouldn't normally have had. These were constantly messed
about with although it often got set back sharpish.
On the subject of ROMs it may be that they use FLASH instead so that
only a small portion of the ROM is rewritten when you only wind the
brightness up by 2% or something silly, it'd seem a waste of time
otherwise. Whatever system the original poster's monitor uses it is
obviously not working and so far we have eliminated mains cut off.
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