It sure sounds like whoever fixed it can find the blown componant (Q411)
but not the problem which causes Q411 to go south.  My money is on a
hardware problem.

John Pfankuch

On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Steve Dias wrote:

> I have a Princeton EO70 monitor that worked fine for 10 months, then in
> the last two months it has failed to power up. Turning on the power
> switch, the LED will flicker on and off about twice per second, with a
> clicking sound, but the monitor will not power up at all. Sent the
> monitor back to be repaired under warranty (twice). Both times, they
> repaired or replaced "transistor Q411", and it worked, but only for a
> short while. After the first repair it died in one hour, the second
> repair lasted 5 days.
>     The last time it failed I was able to see that it occurred when I
> moved the mouse to "wake up" the monitor. The only power management I
> use is the screen saver one in Win98Beta 1650. I might add that all this
> started happening sometime after installing Win98 over Win95. My old 14"
> monitor works fine with the same system, and I'm using it right now.
>     My question is has anyone heard of this type of failure with a
> monitor? Is it possible that Win98 is sending a "bad" wake up signal
> that is frying the monitor start up circuit?, or do I just have a bad
> monitor?
> I'm beginning to wish I could collect all the frequent flyer miles this
> monitor travels.
> Thanks for any ideas.
> System: Tyan Tomcat III, AMD K6-200, 64mb EDO, Diamond Stealth Video
> 2001 (using Diamond GT Drivers 4.02.268 and InControl Tools)
> Steve Dias
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