VGA monitor: rap it on the side

ron newman

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Jul 24, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/24/97

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I have a Goldstar 14" color VGA monitor that goes into broad horizontal lines (losing sync?).
It's an intermittent connection somewhere because a good rap on the side fixes it. I thought
it was the cable connector but have resoldered that three times with no result. Any suggestions,
please? It's damned annoying.

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ron newman

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Jul 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/25/97

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On Thu, 24 Jul 97 17:21:06 GMT, ron...@imt.net (ron newman) wrote:

>I have a Goldstar 14" color VGA monitor that goes into broad horizontal lines (losing sync?).
>It's an intermittent connection somewhere because a good rap on the side fixes it. I thought
>it was the cable connector but have resoldered that three times with no result. Any suggestions,

Hit it with a hammer.

You could open it up and find the horizontal pot and just adjust
it..that usually does the trick.

Sam Goldwasser

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Jul 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/25/97

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In article <33D9A61A.1207@NO_SPAM_PLEASE.adam.com.au> Ian Du Rieu <idurieu@NO_SPAM_PLEASE.adam.com.au> writes:

> You have probably eliminated the solder joints. Check out the connector
> contacts & stuff in the near vicinity. Go tapping very lightly on the
> board to see if you can induce it.

Note that some connector pins and contacts have been knoen to be improperly
sized. This has happened on NEC monitors that I know of. If this is the

Ian Du Rieu

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Jul 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/26/97

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ron newman wrote:
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> I have a Goldstar 14" color VGA monitor that goes into broad horizontal lines (losing sync?).
> It's an intermittent connection somewhere because a good rap on the side fixes it.

Ron,
This technique is more correctly known as "percussive maintenance" :)

I thought
> it was the cable connector but have resoldered that three times with no result. Any suggestions,

> please? It's damned annoying.

You have probably eliminated the solder joints. Check out the connector

contacts & stuff in the near vicinity. Go tapping very lightly on the
board to see if you can induce it.

>

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Ian Du Rieu
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Jul 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/26/97

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In article <5r8fgh$ai0...@bzn4-40.imt.net>, ron...@imt.net (ron newman)
writes:

>I have a Goldstar 14" color VGA monitor that goes into broad horizontal
lines
>(losing sync?).
>It's an intermittent connection somewhere because a good rap on the side

>fixes it. I thought

>it was the cable connector but have resoldered that three times with no
>result. Any suggestions,
>please? It's damned annoying.
>
>

Double posting is also very annoying.

Hank