| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 26 Sep 2000 at 01:09:41 |
| Subject: | Re: Monitor repairs |
John Marchant said,
> A few years ago someone told me I could get a monitor (not a
> Microvitec) repaired by that company. I managed to track them down
> in the UK and phoned them. Yes, they repair monitors but only their
> own make.
> I don't have that phone number now, but it's worth a try. Directory
> Enquiries might find them with a 'national scan' of their database.
Microvitec are in Bradford (the Yorkshire Bradford, not the Manchester
or Somerset one :).
However, they pulled out of the computer monitor market a few years ago
(just after my sixth monitor had failed) so don't hold out much hope of
them doing a repair now.
> However, unless the repair is fairly trivial and maybe only needs
> replacement of an easily obtainable component, the cost of repair and
> carriage usually exceeds the cost of a new monitor.
The 1764 is a fairly mediocre monitor by modern standards. I upgraded
mine to a ProScan, which was the mutts nuts at the time but even that
would have been dated by now, had one of the three they sent me actually
lasted more than a couple of months. An upgrade to even a cheap 17" SVGA
monitor would be a significant step up.
Neil
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