VOGONS


First post, by squareguy

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It sucks.

The first one had vertical lines on right side of screen so I tore it down to have a look-see. Now, the second one is getting them on the left side of the screen. It is a manufacturing defect on how the signal lines are attached to the panel. The tiny welded connections on the ribbon cables are shit. At least I have nothing in the monitors and I will resell the power supplies. If you don't believe me I will gladly sell you some power supplies before your 2001FP goes bad too 😉

Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE

Reply 1 of 2, by Rawrl

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Yeah, the 2001s are pretty well known for vertical lines. Also cap problems, IIRC.

Reply 2 of 2, by oerk

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It seems you got lucky that yours lasted that long. It's an eleven year old model, no?