My sony montior has got a purple discoulouration on the top left hand corner of the screen! i have heard to fix this that i have to get a speaker magnet and put it next to the problem area and this will pull it back into position, how exactly do i do this?
That will probably make it worse!
Firstly move any speakers away from the monitor, and then unplug it from the mains. Then plug in and turn it on again. This should cause the monitor's inbuilt deguassing circuit to kick in and hopefully solve the problem. If not , you will have to take it to a service centre and get it deguassed there.
Then, try to avoid putting unsheided drivers so close again, or get new speakers designed to have no effect on a screen.
Firstly move any speakers away from the monitor, and then unplug it from the mains. Then plug in and turn it on again. This should cause the monitor's inbuilt deguassing circuit to kick in and hopefully solve the problem. If not , you will have to take it to a service centre and get it deguassed there.
Then, try to avoid putting unsheided drivers so close again, or get new speakers designed to have no effect on a screen.
If you don't have a degauss button on your screen you need to leave the screen off for ~half an hour to allow the PTC in the degauss cirquit to cool down before you power it up again
If you always had the monitor in standby pinkmouse´s suggestion to completely switch it off for an hour or so will help.
If not the PTC (thermistor with positive temperature coefficient) is probably defect.
If not the PTC (thermistor with positive temperature coefficient) is probably defect.
Is that the case with most monitors then SvErd?
My old Panasonic monitor used to degauss when starting even if it had just bee off for a second or so. Maybe it was just strange!
Another quick thought, Stealth, you may have a degauss menu on your OSD, even if you don't have a specific hardware button for it.
My old Panasonic monitor used to degauss when starting even if it had just bee off for a second or so. Maybe it was just strange!
Another quick thought, Stealth, you may have a degauss menu on your OSD, even if you don't have a specific hardware button for it.
pinkmouse said:
I don't know, could be that the newer types with degauss button don't have the PTC, but some electronic solution. If it has a PTC it definately must cool down first.
Usually you just have a PTC in series to the degaussing coil to degauss the picture tube.
When the device is off it´s cold.
You switch on and full voltage is applied to the degaussing coil.
After a 1-5 seconds the PTC is hot enough to break this mechanism.
So if you had the monitor always in standby it probably never got properly degaussed.
Some more exclusive models have a circuit with a relay that switches the coil on and off after some picoseconds.
This happens either with an additional contact in the mains switch or even when the computer starts the monitor from standby (which might be the case with your Panasonic).
Jens
pinkmouse said:
degussing has no effect upon the monitor, i haev trried to deguss it 9 times = no effect, i am not sure but i dont hink that the disstortion was caused by speakers now, its seems like its more serious that that now!
Haha, thats funny. The only time I've tried that was when the speaker actually screwed up the monitor intially. I've had success by taking the speaker and waving it about 6 inches away from the "rainbowed" spot. I usually wave it on the side of the monitor. In my experience it will fix one side of the problem, then I just wave the speaker a little closer to the part thats still messed up. You dont have to use a speaker specifically, especially if you not just using a driver (cause boxes can be big). You can use any magnet, heck you can even use a normal home phone (the speaker end).
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