Re: Viewsonic monitor problem

"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?

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:21:03 -0600, Tim
<timmib.nospam@excite.not.com> wrote:


>Believe me that I do not want to fiddle with the innards! I was
>just hoping someone would know if there was a simple seal
>between the screen and the crt tube which could be
>fixed/replaced after cleaning the crt tube surface. For as it
>is now, there is what appears to be a dust layer between the
>screen and the crt tube which gives a very light grayish-
>brownish caste to everything.

I would suspect there is nothing sealing the two and that is
why dust eventually got in... but to know for sure you'd
have to start taking it apart. I caution you to first
Google for a safe method of discharging the tube, it will
hold a high voltage charge for awhile, though I don't know
how many days.

I suppose it could instead be that there was a seal like
foam and it just deteriorated over the years and this "dust"
you see is actually particles off the seal.