monitor slowly becomes unreadable.
Along with my beauty SGI, I own an SGI branded monitor. It's 21" and uses either RGB or RGB with sync. Anyways, Recently I have noticed that after some use the middle section of the screen begins to go fuzzy. Brightness and contrast adjustments can clear it for a while but then it just returns. Eventually the centre begins to go crooked and almost go out of sync possibly. Once the screen begins to bent, it spreads to the top and bottom and eventually you can't even read the monitor. I notice that if the monitor is left off for a day the problems go away and it's not a cooling problem since SGI built a fan right into the monitor. I am guessing either a dry cap or the flyback. Am I close? 
NOTE: the sgi uses a video out method of RGB with no sync cable. connections are made through three BNC connectors on the right of the E-module:
If this stretches, blame photobucket
NOTE: the sgi uses a video out method of RGB with no sync cable. connections are made through three BNC connectors on the right of the E-module:
If this stretches, blame photobucket
<----Computer says I need more beer.
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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