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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:38:12 PDT
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Monitor Problem

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Peter, regarding your monitor problem:

> I *hope* it got wavy "all of a sudden" at some specific
> time rather than "it's getting a little more wavy every hour"

Everything you've said about this sounds more like a h/w failure in the
monitor to me. I've known video cards to crap out for one reason or another,
but their survival rate seems to best that of monitors by a wide margin. I'm
certainly not going to recommend this, but there was one Sysop in a Compuserve
h/w forum who used to tout the occasional benefits of "percussive therapy"
when there did not appear to be much left to lose. (Is there any good reason
to leave the monitor on all the time, even if your system runs 24/7 ?)

> Guess I'll get out one of the spare monitors and call one of the
> 24-hour-turnaround monitor repair shops. The spares are all 1024x768.

Of course, a spare monitor would have been a good early diagnostic test: if it
worked fine, you could safely conclude that the video card was not at fault.

1600 x 1200 would have me squinting, even on a 21 incher.

Jordan

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