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Old 05-10-03, 10:19 AM   #1
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Question Bust My Monitor

Just bought some speakers for my mate to go in his car and had to hoover them coz they was a bit dusty, the hoover was near my monitor, so I hooverd them not noticing that as I was doing it I was ruining my monitor!

Any one know where I can get a nice monitor, I want atleast 17"

Thats water cooling out the window for next month then

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Old 05-10-03, 12:12 PM   #2
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Try to degauss the monitor, that may fix the problem. (I'm hoping your monitor has that option on the face mounted controls.)

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Old 05-10-03, 12:37 PM   #3
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Hey, thanks for the addvice, I have seen that options so many time but not know what it has does!

My friend works @ a computer shop he was saying that they do interest free credit, so I went a bought a new 19" Flat screen(Not TFT)
Its sweet as!

And then when I got home my bust monitor was fixed? What fixed it??

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Old 05-11-03, 03:20 AM   #4
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Most monitors these days degauss when you turn them on.

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