[vox-tech] monitor woes :(

[Rod Roark]

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.
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> 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