From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 21 23:24:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA18120 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA18103 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:24:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.8.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08800; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709220623.XAA08800@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Chuck Robey cc: Mark Mayo , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My monitor's got the Shakes... In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 22 Sep 97 01:06:38 -0400. Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:23:53 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Mark Mayo wrote: >> > > Hi all... well a bad couple of weeks on my hardware seems to be >> > > getting worse. Suddently, my monitor is "shaking". Basically, every >> > > 10 minutes or so (not regular) a small, rapid shaking happens. A >> > > slight brightness fade-in, fade-out sort of happens at the same time. >> > > The picture would appear to be moving straight up and down (by a >> > > really small amount, but enough to be REALLY damned annoying). Maybe it's degaussing when it shouldn't be? Is there a buzz when the wiggling happens? If so, maybe you have a loose connection in the deguassing button that is causing it to happen intermittently. >> > > It's a 17" MAG, about 3.5 years old I believe. Been a faithful monitor, >> > > but it's been going downhill at a break-neck speed the last 6 monhts or >> > > so. >> > Oh, lovely. I'm reading this on a 3.5 year old 17" MAG. >> What model? >I have two, of nearly the same vintage, DX-17F I think. It's really >inconvenient to turn it upside down and search out the exact model number. >One has the little LCD readout (the older one) and one hasn't. > >I wish they hadn't stopped making the LCD readout, it's been very >convenient to have instant verification of the mode. They didn't, to my knowledge. The ones with the LCD are the Mag MXP17F. I have two of them sitting right here in front of, and behind me. One is less than a year old. Not stellar in build quality. I've burnt out one of them twice (the horizontal sync circuitry, actually), by running it at too high a dot clock speed (it was within their published specs, but very close to the limit). But they have an excellent picture for the price, and very high refresh/clock rates. Just leave a little buffer between what they publish, and what you really try to run at. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix. Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C. --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------