| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
My 1040 seems to like to act up every few months... this time it's the
video display. I get flickering on the (mono) monitor when the disk
drive is in operation, manifested as black vertical lines.
I tried reseating the display cable but no change. It's merely an
annoyance at this point, but considering other "annoyances" have turned
into breakdowns I'm a bit worried. I do have the RF shield removed,
but haven't seen this problem before.
Brian
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1222.1 | Temperature? | RGB::ROST | Felix Pappalardi in a previous life | Fri Dec 27 1991 10:21 | 9 |
I was doing some WP on the machine last night and noticed the problem went
away after awhile, but then this morning it was back again. I keep my
1040 in the basement, which is colder than the rest of the house. It
might be temperature related, i.e. as the machine warms up the problem
stops.
??????????????
Brian
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| 1222.2 | Check & tighten power connections? | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Fri Dec 27 1991 16:05 | 7 |
Interaction between the floppy drive motors and the display is usually related to the power supply. For example, when I replaced a power supply in one 1040 with an external one, having too "thin" a connection between the supply and the computer (too much impedance) would cause the display to collapse with each floppy seek. Beefing up the connection made the problem go away. | |||||