[DM-MUG] Poping monitor --fixed

[Ray Bowler]

Thanks for the people who replied. I did a little digging and thought 
that it might be helpful to share some information.

My son-in-law called last night as happy as could be. He had just 
received the monitor back from Apple all repaired (picked up Thurs 
returned Mon.) and at no cost for him. I found an article on Apple's 
site about Blue and White monitors with problems which were a 
manufacturing defect. The owner had to call Apple Care and talk to 
them about it. My son-in-law did that and the lady that answered 
didn't know about this. She checked with someone else and they said 
to send him a recovery box and it would be fixed. They replaced a 
board and sent it back at no cost. That seems a little extra nice to 
me.

At 1:55 PM -0500 on 7/24/04, Darcy Baston wrote about Re: [DM-MUG] 
Poping monitor:
>I had an old monitor doing that. The level of dust inside it was 
>allowing a capacitor to arc to the power supply every now and then. 
>Mine DID emit that classic electrical frying smell however.
>
>But, if it's a multiscan monitor, it may just be trying to lock unto 
>a frequency from a confused or degraded signal. I had one that would 
>do that a lot too, without the smell. It was a tired old thing and 
>had trouble keeping up with contrast and brightness at differing 
>resolutions.
>
>I'm thinking it would be cheaper to replace the monitor than to have 
>it fixed if that turns out to be the problem.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Darcy
>
>On 22-Jul-04, at 8:43 PM, Ann Bowler wrote:
>
>>My son-in-law just called about a monitor which started a sequence 
>>of a pop, the image grows larger and darker, then it repeats 
>>several times. Then it settles down for a while and repeats. There 
>>seems to be no smell so I would tend to rule out arcing. This came 
>>with a used G3 I bought him a couple of years ago.
>>
>>Any guesses about the problem? I have a few and don't like them.
>>--
>>Ray Bowler
>
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