Macs and Monitors
Dec 27th 2004 | 5:51 am
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Macs and Monitors
To who may know the answer. There are power ports on the back of Macs that allow the powering up of the connected Monitor. If the G4s power up when switched over to the lower voltage will the monitors currently used in the UK power up or not. I ask as I have 3 monitors now F'cked. Two in the garage and my prized 22inch pro job sitting in the corner of the office looking sad. Is it worth meding all of them?
Second to those that mend computers the symptoms are out of focus horizontally and yellowing top right hand corner.
Recall giving a TV to a friend with similar problems who had it fixed in a jiffy. He loved it. I was the tosser that went out to buy a wide screen TV at a stupid price only to see them drop by 50% in a year while he sat and enjoyed free of charge. I am not bitter and twisted as my wife and children claim!
Second to those that mend computers the symptoms are out of focus horizontally and yellowing top right hand corner.
Recall giving a TV to a friend with similar problems who had it fixed in a jiffy. He loved it. I was the tosser that went out to buy a wide screen TV at a stupid price only to see them drop by 50% in a year while he sat and enjoyed free of charge. I am not bitter and twisted as my wife and children claim!
Dec 27th 2004 | 12:48 pm
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Re: Macs and Monitors
No Paul, it won't - when the Mac is connected to a 110v supply the monitor socket o/p is at 110v too. The focus/yellow monitor symptom sounds a bit odd if that’s the problem on all three of them – you don’t have kids messing with VERY strong magnets near them do you? If its just the 22� that has that problem it may have had a bump and one or more of the 'guns' are out of line - can be adjusted quite easily in a repair shop but don't even think about fiddling with it yourself - get it looked at and if its worth a repair get it done and bring it with you, a voltage converter costs about 50$.
Originally Posted by SANDRAPAUL
To who may know the answer. There are power ports on the back of Macs that allow the powering up of the connected Monitor. If the G4s power up when switched over to the lower voltage will the monitors currently used in the UK power up or not. I ask as I have 3 monitors now F'cked. Two in the garage and my prized 22inch pro job sitting in the corner of the office looking sad. Is it worth meding all of them?
Second to those that mend computers the symptoms are out of focus horizontally and yellowing top right hand corner.
Recall giving a TV to a friend with similar problems who had it fixed in a jiffy. He loved it. I was the tosser that went out to buy a wide screen TV at a stupid price only to see them drop by 50% in a year while he sat and enjoyed free of charge. I am not bitter and twisted as my wife and children claim!
Second to those that mend computers the symptoms are out of focus horizontally and yellowing top right hand corner.
Recall giving a TV to a friend with similar problems who had it fixed in a jiffy. He loved it. I was the tosser that went out to buy a wide screen TV at a stupid price only to see them drop by 50% in a year while he sat and enjoyed free of charge. I am not bitter and twisted as my wife and children claim!
Dec 29th 2004 | 1:42 am
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Re: Macs and Monitors
Check the monitors power specs too. I had several monitors in the UK and some would accept only 220V some would accept anything from 110~220 and some had a switch like on the back of PC power supplies that let you manually select. Also check whether or not the monitor can be powered seperately. I recall when I borrowed a G3 from a friend I just got the box and no monitor ajust just plugged my monitor into the graphics card and the monitor was powered seperately direct from the mains. Not sure if you have a specific Mac band monitor that can only be powered from the PC or if you can just use a regular mains cord to pluf it into an outlet directly. Obviously check to see if it will run on 110V before messing about.
Dec 29th 2004 | 4:12 am
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Re: Macs and Monitors
Originally Posted by wizzard
Check the monitors power specs too. I had several monitors in the UK and some would accept only 220V some would accept anything from 110~220 and some had a switch like on the back of PC power supplies that let you manually select. Also check whether or not the monitor can be powered seperately. I recall when I borrowed a G3 from a friend I just got the box and no monitor ajust just plugged my monitor into the graphics card and the monitor was powered seperately direct from the mains. Not sure if you have a specific Mac band monitor that can only be powered from the PC or if you can just use a regular mains cord to pluf it into an outlet directly. Obviously check to see if it will run on 110V before messing about.
Thanks again
