just blew up my 17" monitor

Marc Williams marcw at onlymooo.com
Sat Nov 8 14:10:57 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 08:02, Magtanggol Kalingasan wrote:
> hi list,
> 
> I don't know if its fedora's or my monitor's problem, my monitor was unprobed so i entered the Hsync and Vsync from the manual, the installation(fresh install) went smooth. After the installation i was prompted to reboot, the graphical boot-up was nice, i was prompted to create a regular user and all those post install stuff. Then I logged in, saw the GNOME start up. I was begining to navigate the menus when the monitor's view shrunk, then kapooooffff!!!! Then I smelled some burned plastic/stuff coming from my monitor.
> 
> Kinda weird, i used the same Hsync and Vsync on this same machine with the RH9 install. is it FC1's fault? or bad hardware? any similar experience here?
> 

Sorry to hear about that.  Many of us sympathize 'cause we've been
there, done that.

What's the age and manufacturer of the monitor?  Could it be
coincidence?  Was the monitor on its last legs anyway?






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