Zork2
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Here is a strange one, I can't for the life of me figure out what is going on.
I picked up a pac man a couple months back. Someone had dropped a 19" Kortek
K1-2-VOA color replacment monitor into it. Not MY first choice of a monitor, BUT...
It is supposed tp be only a couple years old. I had it in my garage for a month or so this summer while I did a partial resto on it. No problems with the monitor. I brought into the house. A couple weeks ago, I noticed the bottom left part of the screen was fading a bit, pac man was almost white while, the ghosts lost their color, and the maze was faded to a light purple. I thought maybe it could need a cap kit?
Fast forward to yesterday, and I had the machine turned a bit to the left to I could get into the back, and happened to notice the monitor was REALLY bad, worse than I'd ever seen. I didn't think too much of it, other than I was going to have to recap it soon, as the problem was getting worse quickly. So I put it back in place, and WALA, the fade was almost GONE! So I sat there turning the machine to the left, and then back to the right, and you can watch this area go from perect to CRAP with a 90deg Clockwise turn of the machine! PLEASE SEE PICS
First Pic is at 90deg to the left, the next, only seconds later almost straight on, with the back against the wall.
WHAT GIVES?!??! What on EARTH would cause it to do that? Some kind of interference? I tried moving the power cord around a bit, nothing. Litterally the ONLY thing that is different in these pics is that the machine is rotated 90deg to the left in the ones with the fading, straight against the wall in the others?
THOUGHTS!?!?!? I am perplexed!!
I picked up a pac man a couple months back. Someone had dropped a 19" Kortek
K1-2-VOA color replacment monitor into it. Not MY first choice of a monitor, BUT...
It is supposed tp be only a couple years old. I had it in my garage for a month or so this summer while I did a partial resto on it. No problems with the monitor. I brought into the house. A couple weeks ago, I noticed the bottom left part of the screen was fading a bit, pac man was almost white while, the ghosts lost their color, and the maze was faded to a light purple. I thought maybe it could need a cap kit?
Fast forward to yesterday, and I had the machine turned a bit to the left to I could get into the back, and happened to notice the monitor was REALLY bad, worse than I'd ever seen. I didn't think too much of it, other than I was going to have to recap it soon, as the problem was getting worse quickly. So I put it back in place, and WALA, the fade was almost GONE! So I sat there turning the machine to the left, and then back to the right, and you can watch this area go from perect to CRAP with a 90deg Clockwise turn of the machine! PLEASE SEE PICS
First Pic is at 90deg to the left, the next, only seconds later almost straight on, with the back against the wall.
WHAT GIVES?!??! What on EARTH would cause it to do that? Some kind of interference? I tried moving the power cord around a bit, nothing. Litterally the ONLY thing that is different in these pics is that the machine is rotated 90deg to the left in the ones with the fading, straight against the wall in the others?
THOUGHTS!?!?!? I am perplexed!!


