Lisa Trigg wrote:

Greetings, I'm not sure what kind of problem this is, so I thought I'd
start
with the pcbuild folks.  The problem is difficult to describe, but the
best
way I can think of to describe it is that images on my monitor screen
are
undulating just slightly---it makes it look like heat waves or
something.
It's a side to side motion that is so faint that I thought it was just
me
bleary eyed from so much school work, and looking at the screen too
much,
but my housemate can see it as well, so I'm sure this is real.

I have an IBM Aptiva, 300 mhz, with 160 mg RAM, and a 6.4 g hard drive.
Normally, I'd just take it down to my computer shop, but I can't afford
to
give up the machine for a week in the middle of summer quarter, so I'm
trying to hold out until mid August.  I'm just wondering what the worst
could be, and am I being foolish not to get into the shop sooner?

What do you all think?

This situation happened to me once and the problem was not obvious at
the time. It turned out to be my speaker transformer mounted directly
under the back of the monitor. My keyboard mounting had an extension off
the back and I thought that would be a nice place to put it. Out of site
and in the way.

You may look for something similar. Sometimes speakers can do this too.

Sincerely,

Frank SUszka
netTek Computers
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