Many monitors have long factory warranties - 3 years or so. Of course you don't want to do what I do (risk of getting zapped by high voltage stored in capacitors, or totally messing up the monitor) ... which is to open it up and start playing with the little knobs. ;-)
I did fix a nasty focus problem that way about a year ago. -- Rod On Saturday 29 March 2003 05:29 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i have a monitor that started to develop problems yesterday. > > the bottom of the image "curls up". kind of like facing the letter "j" > head-on. > > -------------------------------------------- > > |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx| > |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx| > |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx| > |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx| > |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx| > |yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy| > |yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy| > |yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy| > > -------------------------------------------- > > where "y" has two sets of images. what it should have, and aa line that > should've come from "below", but up side down as of someone took the > image and bent it upwards. the problem has been getting progressively > worse. the bend has been getting higher and higher up on the monitor. > plus, the image always corrected itself after a few minutes. it seems > to have stopped correcting itself, though. > > i'm fairly sure there's nothing i can do - i've checked out all the > options in the menu for hpos, vpos, rotation, etc. but if someone has > DOES have an idea, i'm all ears. > > has anyone ever taken a monitor to a repair shop? are monitors > generally items that are worth getting fixed or replaced? > > pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
