Sounds like warm-up to me. I have an HP monitor that does this, and after five minutes, it's gone. Also, I gave somebody an Apple monitor (unknown model, but had speakers on the bottom) that did a green flare. Again, after a few minutes, it's gone.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Doug McNutt <[email protected]>wrote: > > Color flares in CRTs can be the result of external magnetic fields. The > monitor has a degaussing coil inside that generates a 60 Hz field that is > slowly reduced to zero whenever power is applied or, perhaps, when a degauss > button is poked. The idea is to remove remnant magnetization of ferrous > parts in the monitor itself. You can usually hear some noise as the coil is > energized. > > Is there anything else that could be magnetized near the monitor? Another > monitor, for instance. > > The magnetic field of planet earth actually has a small effect on color > monitors. Try rotating the monitor 90 degrees. > > But then, if the problem reliably goes away after warm-up, I may not have > an answer and you may not really have a problem. > -- > > --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <-- > > > > -- Tyrone L. Warbasse My Personal Blog and Podcast: http://www.totallyparanoia.com/ or http://www.tyronewarbasse.blogspot.com/ And for Twitter: coffee4binky "Don't Tread on Me!" I thought things were bad in politics, then I had the disprivilege of re-watching Club Mario! http://www.mariowiki.com/Club_Mario/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
