This might be a silly question but - do you have any of the manuals that
came with your monitor?

What you are looking for are the degausing instructions. Most CRTs will have
a button on the front bezel where you can enter the monitor settings menu -
and a pair of buttons near that button so that you can navigate in this
menu. There should be a degausing selection in the choices. Don't worry
about messing things up, you cannot do any real damage from within the menu.
If you find the degaus feature, activate it. It will make your screen jump -
so be prepared for a little freakiness. Once should be good enough. The
general rule is - not to degaus too often as this can be hard on the monitor
overtime/frequency.

HTH...John

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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:56 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Help please. Magnet held next to monitor.


> I have a CRT monitor to which a child has held a small but powerful
magnet.
> Now, in the two places where the magnet was held to the monitor, the image
is
> badly distorted.  The distortion areas are about an inch square each.  The
rest
> of the display area is undamaged.
>
> Is there anything that can be done to correct this?  I have tried
degaussing the
> monitor, but it has had no effect on the problem.
>
> Dave.
>
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