I assume you used the monitors OWN degaussing. You will need a "professional grade" type of EXTERNAL type degaussing unit used on the monitor to see if this will correct the problem... Rick Glazier From: ashdown > 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. The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with the OpenOffice CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml