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Re: Monitor washed out and blurry
08/08/12 05:10 AM


> Thanks for the advice... I will open up the cabinet tomorrow and try this. The
> picture I posted is a little misleading, because you can't see how bad the black
> levels are.... it is like the blacks are light grey instead of black. When I set my
> regular pots to their old levels, the picture is so blurry that text is unreadable.
>
> Do you have any idea what could have caused this? Upon further investigation, my
> cabinet is displaying other weird behaviors... the fluorescent light in the marquee
> wasn't on when I discovered it today, but works intermittently when I jiggle it - the
> bulb is dark gray on one side now, so I guess I'll replace it. I also noticed that my
> arcade buttons (hooked in through an ipac controller and then into a USB port on my
> PC) were not responding until I rebooted the PC. They were fine for a while, but then
> stopped responding after another reboot. All of my devices are plugged into a "smart"
> power strip, that is supposed to cut power to my monitor and marquee light when the
> PC is shut down.
>
> I'm afraid with all these sudden weird behaviors that I may have some lightning
> damage or something. Does this make sense? I am so mystified by this combination of
> sudden issues.


It's possible that a bad florescent marquee light is causing noise in your supply power, but the monitor should generally be isolated from this. There are scenarios that could create monitor trouble, but I don't have enough to base any decent guess. One step at a time, give the screen control a bump and see if your issues are correctable. If you bump the screen pot too high you might see white "retrace" lines across the screen. Back the pot off until you no longer see them.







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