Can a 128 kill it's own monitor ?

[Mark Smith]

Cause I've just had my 2nd 1084 pack up and die ... same thing as the last one, working fine and then a click, picture goes and a high pitched squeal from the monitor :-(

Not a happy bunny now!  I'd just got my new computer room all set up with the 128 on one side of the room and the Apple and SGI on the other.

Mark

[airship]

I believe that's called '20 Year Old Monitor Syndrome'.

Time to look into getting all that add-on hardware to hook up your C128 to an LCD screen.

[BigDumbDinosaur]

Cause I've just had my 2nd 1084 pack up and die ... same thing as the last one, working fine and then a click, picture goes and a high pitched squeal from the monitor :-(

Not a happy bunny now!  I'd just got my new computer room all set up with the 128 on one side of the room and the Apple and SGI on the other.

Mark

Sounds like either flyback transformer or electrolytic capacitor failure, typical of old video monitors.  At least it didn't fill the house with noxious-smelling smoke.   =D  Time to junk it.

[wte]

Time to junk it.

Or time to repair!

Today I found a repair instruction for a 1802 - but to exchange the electronic parts of the power supply (resistor, capacitor, transistor, voltage stabilizer) is always a good idea.
Sorry only in German: http://www.forum64.de/wbb3/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=21539&highlight=

Regards WTE

[Golan Klinger]

Both my 1084s dies in the span of a few days and that was that. No more old monitors for me. They're forever dying at inopportune times and they're not very energy efficient either.

[airship]

To me, the only reason to fix an older monitor is if you're a collector.

Hooking up to an LCD is easy and, thanks to Mangelore, provides all 16 colors. For a hundred bucks, why not? I haven't yet, but I will when my monitor dies.

[sledge]

To me, the only reason to fix an older monitor is if you're a collector.

Hooking up to an LCD is easy and, thanks to Mangelore, provides all 16 colors. For a hundred bucks, why not? I haven't yet, but I will when my monitor dies.

Uh... have I missed something? Have have Mangelore done you said? Links to info, please...

[airship]

The info you seek is buried in this thread:

http://landover.no-ip.com/forums/index.php/topic,453.0.html

It's an interesting read... all six pages of it! But eventually it gets around to what actually works, with links to the pertinent sites.

If you're the impatient type, here's a link to a site that shows one guy's setup. (You'll still have to read the thread above to get Mangelore's 16-color hack.)

http://home.comcast.net/~kkrausnick/c128-vga/c128-vga.html