20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
7:34 a.m.
On 2012 Feb 19, at 7:05 PM, Chris M wrote:
why do you assume it's the monitors seeing neither
work? Couldn't
it be your U1? Or possibly even the video cable.
I'm guessing the U1 has a 13w3 connector on the back, meaning you
don't have a pc or mac to bnc cable (I have a number of each). If
you did, you could plug the monitors into most anything to
determine if the problem is indeed w/them. You may not get a
legible picture, or a single one, but that might tell the story. I
never had to repair any Sony monitor, which speaks to their
reliability, so I couldn't help you w/repair issues. The only issue
I ever had was when, it seemed, someone rammed a vacuum cleaner
into a GDM-something, that refused to turn on, being the switch was
decimated.
I have two (what I understand to be) Sony GDM monitors (19 inch IIRC)
- one SUN-branded and one Apple-branded. They both have problems: on
one the blue is gone (probably a video driver and not too difficult
to repair), the other has an intermittent in the convergence
circuitry - for some minutes it will be fine, then the convergence
will shift for some minutes, shift back, and so on.
They're boat anchors and surplus to me, and so are on the scrap/
recycle list unless somebody wants to take them away.