I bought my 19" MAGDJ800 monitor for $180 bucks refurbished over a year and a half ago. I absolutely *love* this monitor, and would hate to part with it, plus I'm in college, and am currently in debt, lol, so there's no way in hell I can afford a new 19" incher. So here's my problem, it's not serious, but *very* annoying.

Everyonce in a while the screen image will begin to veritcally waver up & down, and then will usually *pop* out of position. Damn it just happened as I typed that, lol.
Anyways, it's almost as if the electron gun falls out of position and tilts about 45 degrees upward, because the screen image will shift half way up the screen and only display a distorted image of the bottom half of my desktop, on the top half of my screen.

Needless to say this is *very* annoying. It's happened about 3-4 times over the past year, but now in the past few weeks it's been happening at least once a day.

All I have to do to fix it is reach around to its back left side and give it a good slap on the casing, that's always made the image fall back down to where it should be, crisp and clear again.

Now...I'm considering opening up the monitor...because it seems like a really dumb problem, almost like some screw is loose that holds the electron gun in it's swivel, or something to that effect. Problem is I don't know a helluva lot about the internal workings of a monitor, and I've come to understand how it can result in serious injury, and/or death.

So my question is, has anyone ever had a similar problem with their monitor? And if so, has anyone ever actually opened it up and fixed it?

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P3-550e@733Mhz
256MB PC-133 CL3 RAM
Elsa Gladiac GeForce2 GTS
40+ Gig's of combined HD
CD-RW 8/4/32X
DVD w/ Hollywood RealMagic DVD Decoder
19" MAG DJ800 monitor
Tornado 1000 case
**Win2000 Professional**
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