On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 09:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > This is OT...but wonder if anyone has experienced or see this before. > > My older Samsung SyncMaster 172t is hooked to a system I use mainly for > running SlingPlayer. Part of the upper left quadrant had what could be > called a smear patter or smudge pattern. It isn't from any type of burn > in. But looked like what you see if you run fingers around on the > screen...only "permanent". It had been like this for a long time. > > Anyway, I didn't have the monitor turned on last night when Taiwan was > hit by a 6.8 earthquake. It registered a 4.3 in Taipei and other than > drawers opening and the TV rolling away we had no damage. But, when I > turned the monitor on this AM the smear pattern was gone. > > So, a shake-table is a good repair tool? :-) Useful for marguerita lovers who need to multitask... About your monitor, I suspect what the earthquake might have done is flex some bit of hardware just right and cause it to rub through some micro-corrosion on an internal signal lead. You know, the same mechanism attributed to those "reseated connector" miracle repairs? I've seen some odd hardware behavior changes when a system is taken apart, moved, and reassembled. You wouldn't expect it to happen, but every once in a while it definitely DOES happen. Buy a lottery ticket! --Doc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
