From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 00:22:22 EDT
MY guess is its a bad cable..
i don't think there is ANY 365CD thats still under the original one year
warranty..
Donald Mak wrote:
> David,
> Perhaps a bad inverter card. When you say you flexed the case, I take it you
> are reffering to the LCD display, right?
> Second thought would be a loose wire to the display but that would not
> explain the garbled text.
> Is it still under warranty?
>
> Don
>
> From: David Ells <de35608_at_navix.net>
> > I turned on my 365CD the other day and the text on the screen (before
> > Windows started) was garbled. I could read the text, but it was displaying
> > the wrong letters. When Windows started the screen had lots of vertical
> > black lines through it. The problem has gotten progressively worse. For a
> > while I could flex the case and get the screen to display well enough to
> see
> > my cursor and get the machine shut down. Now it's pretty much blank with
> > occasional flickers and shifting blocks of different colors. Sometimes it
> > will be completely green or white, sometimes it has lots of lines across
> the
> > screen. I can no longer make out any part of the Windows desktop. The
> > machine does boot OK. I can see it on my network and access the drive that
> > way. Does this sound like a mode of failure anyone has seen before, or is
> > this just weird?
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