Marc

I had a similar experience with a CTX monitor, except in my case, I could
hear and smell the smoke.  It seems that a high voltage wire in the monitor
wore through its shielding and shorted out.  The symptoms after the original
failure were similar to what you are experiencing.  See if you can find a
monitor repairman in your area.  I found one through a ham radio operator.
Seems that ham radio repairmen have a lot of the tools and experience
necessary to repair monitors.

I would be very careful of doing any messing around inside your monitor.
There are some high voltages and capacitors in there that can badly hurt
you.  The fly back transformer got its name from what it will make you do if
you accidentally contact it.

Mike Buraczewski
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From: Axelrod, Marc <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 5:08 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Failed Monitor


|I have a Packard Bell SVGA monitor.  A few night ago while I was online
|the monitor went black and the power light on the monitor went out.  I
|turned the switch off then back on and the monitor was ok...... for
|about 15 minutes, then repeated the failure.  I repeated the fix, which
|worked for a few minutes, then it went out again.  now, it won't come on
|at all.
|
|>From the symptoms, it seems to me that I might have a bad switch.  I was
|thinking about taking the cover off, and either replacing the switch (if
|I could fine one), or bypassing it altogether (I usually use a power
|strip with it's own switch anyway).
|
|Could it be anything else other than the switch.  If so, is it something
|I could fix myself.
|
|Thanks for your help.
|
|Marc Axelrod
|