On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Armen Babikyan wrote:

> > I'm using an Apple Multiscan 15 on my NetBSD box (Q650) in black and white
> > mode. As far as I can remember back the monitor has always been a little
> > fritzy, sometimes it looks as if it's switching gamma modes randomly, but
> > usually a good smack to the side clears it up. Lately it's started to
> > switch to a blue shade of things, while black is still black as far as I
> > can see, the "white" is a light greenish blue. Up until today it would
> > only stay there for a few seconds before it switched back. Now it doesn't
> > seem to want to change. Does anyone out there have any ideas as to what
> > could be the trouble? Or does anyone have an idea as to how to fix it?
> > TIA
> > -Xiamin
> 
> I had the exact same problem with my monitor earlier this year, and i
> called apple about it. they said it was a documented problem with apple
> multiscan 15's, and told me i'd get a free replacement under warranty if i

Not just the multiscan 15's, tho....  Apparently that problem was
experienced w/ several PowerMac 5200s (or so I'm told), and I've seen it
personally on a 5400 (of course that's one of the more minor problems
we've had with the all-in-one macs....)  In the 5200 series, the problem
was supposedly related to a bad cable.  Not sure about the others.  And at
least with the 5400, it's also the red gun dropping out (at least
partially).  Sounds like they need to find new suppliers....


David

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