The first
thing to do would be to pop the top off of the Lisa
and check the 4-5 video adjustment dials along the top of the video
board, as well as the adjustment pot on the PSU. To me it definately
Please don't!. If you have a real fault (and this sounds like one), it
will not be cured by making adjustments. Once you've twiddled everything
you will still have to cure the real fault and then re-align everything.
The only times you should adjust presets are (a) after some other person
has been fiddling about and (b) after replacing components in the
relevant part of the circuit. And to twiddle PSU presets without knowing
just what you are doing is a good way to wipe out the entire set of chips
in the machine.
The adjustment pot on the PSU I was referring to is part of
the video adjustment. It's reached from the rear of the machine
through a small hole in the back panel. Changing it's value is
actually part of the video alignment procedure after replacing the
video board or adding the XL screenkit modification. The pots on the
video board itself may also drift and need to be readjusted. This is
easily done by 'eyeballing' the video output as you would with the
vertical and horizontal sync adjustments on another monitor or TV. I
once had to open up a early Panasonic multisync monitor and do this.
Everyone else thought the monitor was bad due to it being totally out
of sync.
Jeff
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