Re: [NTLK] Parts Newton - almost perfect....

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 15:31:22 PDT


Blair Rosser wrote:
> Thanks to a great search tip from Frank, I was able to find and purchase a
> parts Newton on Ebay for about $20US.
>
> As I suspected, the unit started up fine when I got the package. The only
> thing wrong with it is a fine line runnning down the center of the screen.
> This line distorts anything that displays over top of it, but oddly, a black
> border in a dialog box displays okay.
>
> Has anybody had a problem like this? I'll probably be opening the spare up
> to take a look around, but wanted to get a sense of whether this might be
> fixable by fiddling with cables, etc.

Sounds like something that might be fixed simply by reseating the display
cable... otherwise it's probably not fixable.

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