Bugger.

[unixronin]

My Sun 90D10 monitor is starting to look shaky again.  If it fails, I can't afford to replace it.

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Get the fan on it

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

That solved the problem last time. Also, you don't need to replace it with another 90D10. We've got several monitors you can put in its place. Hell, I can give you the one off of llioness/mabolgamp right now and bring up my old monitor from the basement.

Re: Get the fan on it

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the fan will work as a stopgap, if it continues to act up.

Re: Get the fan on it

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

Damn I could probably find out what's wrong with chill spray and replace that part.

Re: Get the fan on it

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Given a little time, yes, probably.

[databeast.livejournal.com]

is that the dual-input 20" Sun monitor that was popular back around 2000?

I buy mine from a local second hand computer place - they regularly get batches of them in from corp clearouts where the monitor's been sitting as a spare in storage for years, but never actually used.

Pick em up for $30 apiece.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

No, it's the dual-input 24" 16:10-aspect Sun. :) The 20" is the 20D10 or 20E20.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

Is it one that takes RGBY?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Nope, it has a 13W3 and a HD15 VGA connector.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

I should have phrased that better. Will it work with a standard monitor with an HD15 connector? Or does it need an adaptor?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm using the HD15 input. The box it's attached to is a PC; I'm not currently using the 13W3 input.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

My NEC XP21 started acting up several months back. I stopped leaving it on all the time. Now it gets shut off at least every night. Hasn't given me a bit of trouble since.

This time of year includes wildly uncertain temps and weird power problems*, try to mitigate both.

*No, a normal, high end, UPS will not stop the power problems. Things like 1 - 2 minute power surges just won't be detected by a UPS. Only an in-line power conditioner/UPS will fix stuff like that. You may have one (I do) but they are hard to come by inexpensive.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SU5000RMT5U


I think this is the one we've got but only going by what I remember it looking like in the bottom of the rack.

It was free. Just needed to buy batteries.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

No, ours is an SU3000RM5U.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

The APC smartUPS series is good, but it still will not stop longer surges. To do that you need something that is constantly converting line to DC, charging the batteries, and running DC to conditioned AC from the batteries. Not cheap! Power gets really iffy in the midwest spring...