James wrote:
>We have had to deal with several of the original 15" Power Computing
>Multimedia monitors showing a dim display. It always happens on Power
>machines only. I am at a loss to explain it, but often if you hook the
>monitor up to a IBM PC compatible or other Mac, it will work fine.
>Immediately after doing this you may wish to hook it back up to the Power.
>
>I suspect there may be an issue with the video signal sent out by the
>Power, since the monitor is fine on other machines. Here are some
>general tips to try:
>
>1. Reset the cuda
>
>2. Replace the clock battery
>
>3. Reseat the video riser card. Often this card drifts up and causes all
>sorts of wierd problems.
>
>4. Utilize a Mac/VGA adapter and plug into the other Mac video port.
>
>5. Change the refresh rate in the Monitors control panel.
Thanks for this posting James, the above suggestions helped us all.
I especially liked 4, and never thought of it or have seen it suggested before.
one question
Re:
>It's a very good suggestion to leave the monitor off for a while.
I had found previously that when the Apple full page monochrome monitor was
unused for a long while, that leaving it on for 15 minutes or so would see the
brightness increase substantially.
I assumed (there's that word) that the same would be true of color monitors.
The above suggestion is unclear whether to leave the monitor off entirely or
on but with no video signal.
Can you expand on the sentence?
Cheers...Michael
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