mspacek@fquest.fidonet.org (Mark Spacek) (04/12/91)
Well, I've seen a thread of messages about monochrome monitor problems lately, but pretty much ignored it. After all, it could never happen to me! Right, well it did happen to me. The other night it had been on for a while... I was online with a BBS and all of a sudden I thought the characters were starting to look funny, like they were slanting just a bit and getting thinner. Well, just a moment or two later the screen went dark and the green power light were dark also. When I turned the system off I could still hear a humming from the monitor, the power supply I suppose. I then cut it off to be safe. I opened it up and checked the fuse. It was blown. I really didn't expect it to be that simple, but thought it was worth a shot. I went to Radio Shack and bought a couple new fuses of the same rating. I thought I might have gotten lucky because it seemed to work fine after I replaced the fuse and put it back together. But after a little more than 30 minutes elapsed, it happened again. This time I was looking at the right side of the screen when it occured and the letter were definitely getting VERY thin right before it happened. Once again, it was only a moment or two after I noticed the character distortion until it went out. Anyway, I'm hoping to get some help in diagnosing the problem since there isn't much in the way of local dealer support. Oh, I thought both times that the monitor felt hotter than it should have right after the fuse blew. I would also welcome advice on what I could do if I can't fix it. Like good places to send stuff like that to be repaired (if there is such a place, not around here anyway), or what Atari Corp's exchange program pricing is currently. If anyway has had a posted for help with a similar sounding problem, I would sure love to hear what happened to them and possibly a recap of the help they got. I guess mail it would be best to mail anything to me, unless you think others would find the info interesting or helpful. I know I should have been reading the posts that have been on here lately and may well have already known the problem if I had, but well, I didn't. So, any help will be greatly appreciated. I really like my mono monitor and miss it greatly. I'm quite used to it and want it back pretty bad. SOMEBODY HEP ME PLEASE!!! Heh... Thanks in advance from a SM124 addict suffering from withdrawal symptoms.