"Tim" <timmib.nospam@excite.not.com> wrote in message
news:a9KdnbZPnZIp4hvanZ2dnUVZ_uevnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> Greetings,
>
> I have g771 viewsonic monitor. It has been working fine until
> just recently. When I cleaned the screen, it looks like it
> still has dust on it. I have snooped about the web and in the
> newsgroups trying to figure out what is going on.
>
> The G771 is a 17" flat screen monitor from 1998. It appears
> to have a flat glass screen treated with an anti-glare
> substance in front of the crt face. When I use the monitor's
> controls to change the view area size, I end up with a white
> border around the 'dusty' area. Peering into the corners and
> thru the screen with a flashlight, it appears that there is a
> gap between the screen and crt face of perhaps as much as 1/4
> of an inch; and that the crt face has dust on it. Perhaps the
> seal between the screen and the crt face has deteriorated.
>
> I am wondering if it possible to fix this situation. I can
> not find a service manual which addresses the way the tube and
> screen are joined. I had read somewhere that the two are
> sealed and can be held in place by a steel band, which band is
> not supposed to be fiddled with.
>
> I would appreciate any thoughts folk might have. The monitor
> works just fine, and with new nvidia drivers for the video
> card seems to have regained any lost sharpness, etc.

2 things: If you take the monitor apart, leave it to rest for a while before
going near it. A very high voltage builds up on there and it takes a while
to dissipate. If you touch the wrong part, you will blow yourself out of the
building!

Secondly, you have confused me with your last statement - "The monitor works
just fine... ... with new nvidia drivers for the video card seems to have
regained any lost sharpness". If this is true, then what problem remains?