mons2b wrote:That brings back good memories! I used to enjoy reading their advertising, I didnt have the money to buy one. They made nice pc's. Id forgotten till your message.
I hope someone can help. What do you get with uncle google on that part number?
whalemind wrote:If you're like me and don't know how to fix these things yourself, getting your hands on the service manual is proably going to be necessary so that you find the part number and an identical part. Having the part number makes it a lot easier when google searching. Last year I had a Sony Pvm monitor that needed a replacement flyback transformer. I googled around and found a forum where people with pvms were sharing PDFs of the service manuals. I found a few places that still had the flyback transformer I wanted in the end. From my experience most repair places just aren't going to be able to order parts for CRTs anymore through their old channels, but if say you can get the part you're halfway there.
mons2b wrote:Did you find a flyback? Sometimes you just have to do as Luke Skywalker. Switch off the targeting computer and use the force. If you cant find the exact manual work with something thats close and google the general procedure and give it a crack. Thats what I do anyway.
mons2b wrote:Thats cool. If you get it sorted maybe you could replace the caps in there too. The high voltage ones get a hammering. youll get a nicer picture with new caps. Upto you though. Shame so many monitors scrapped. Future retro interested people will struggle to find one to experience the warm static infused glow of a CRT. Do you have the PC General computer to go with the monitor and if so can you share a picture of it?
nzoomed wrote:mons2b wrote:Thats cool. If you get it sorted maybe you could replace the caps in there too. The high voltage ones get a hammering. youll get a nicer picture with new caps. Upto you though. Shame so many monitors scrapped. Future retro interested people will struggle to find one to experience the warm static infused glow of a CRT. Do you have the PC General computer to go with the monitor and if so can you share a picture of it?
Only got the monitor.
I have in the past had PC direct computers with pentum 1 or 2 CPU's, but that was a long time ago.
They were not as crappy as people thought, their computers actually had good parts, e.g the ones i worked on all had ASUS boards inside.
Anyway, ill get a picture of the screen soon, I would say its about 20 years old (1996?)
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