shrinking and twisting screen

[Iris Porta]

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> From: "wadada" <AGYEI at net2.eos.uoguelph.ca>
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> Good day all,
> This is too technical to report here, all the same I still feel some 
> of you might have experienced such problems to offer some help. For 
> the past four weeks, my screen SHRINKS and TWISTS in the course of my 
> working sessions. At times all the characters blow up very big on the 
> screen resulting in very small part of text on the screen. When this 
> happens and I turn the monitor power on and off, everything comes to 
> normal. I am still capable of working alright and don't loose 
> anything when it happens only that it the screen appears very nasty 
> and undesirable. This problem occurs in DOS,WINDOWS,and UNIX.
> 
> This problem occurs so often in the course of my working hours that I 
> can't hang on for so long. I took the whole system back to the 
> company and was tested for seventy two hours but this problem never 
> happened. I was therefore convinced that all was over but immediately 
> I brought it home and started working, it come up again! This has 
> made me conclude that it might not be a technical problem but 
> environmental. I am still looking round for cure but I will 
> appreciate it if any of you can be of any help.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> eugene

This is just a shot in the dark, but it's something you can easily try.  I
remember having a problem with a monitor display jumping around and generally
doing strange things.  The source of the problem  was found to be a power 
distribution box located inside the wall about a foot behind the monitor. 
Moving the monitor just a few feet away took care of the problem.