SUMMARY: monitor trouble

From: Deborah A. Crocker (crock@kudzu.astr.ua.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 01 1995 - 23:22:54 CST


Thanks for the help - it came mostly in the form of monitor adjustment
tools. Didn't find any circuit diagrams or sources for one. We were in
a time bind because sending out monitors for repair takes several
weeks. And, being a university, money to buy new equipment is rare.
Resondents are listed below. The replies are:

"Under Sundiag there is a color bar test" - these were not static,
     however, and so won't help the user needing a stable pattern to aid
     adjustment.

Kevin Martinez has two cartesian grids that help align the color guns.
     They can be found at ftp.rahul.net in /pub/lps

     red-blu.gif ) These weren't the exact names I found
     rgb.gif ) but are the names given by Kevin

Dan Stromberg sent a gif file of colors bars which he generated from a c
     program.

It was suggested that we could use a terminal as the console - but we do
     a lot of data visualization here. The user with the bad monitor really
     needs the whole works.

Others carry maintenance on all hardware - but we are a university. What we can
     possibly do ourselves we try to do ourselves.

I got a few notes about repair places.

What we finally did: We made some internal "deals" to find the money to
buy a new monitor. I called around and got the best price and we got a
new one in overnight. The bad monitor will be sent out to be repaired
with the usual 3-week turnaround time and we will keep it as a spare
should this come up again.

Again, thanks
From: cindy@ddrsrv.dny.rockwell.com (Cindy Yoho)
From: Kevin Martinez <lps@rahul.net>
From: Dan Stromberg - OAC-CSG <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
From: weitzel@burke.com (David Weitzel)
From: "Frank 'Scruffy' Miller" <Frank.Miller@master.CNA.TEK.COM>
From: paul@polaris1.com (Paul E. Silun)
From: sunrise!don@rambone.psi.net (Don Lenamond)
From: John_C_Delmarle.wbst208@xerox.com



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