Date Posted:23:19:40 11/22/01 Thu Author:Scott Johnston Subject: Re: 640x480 screen flicker In reply to:
MarkT
's message, "640x480 screen flicker" on 22:57:58 11/22/01 Thu
Yes, I have seen the smithfamily CCs that you bought on eBay. (not in person). Check the monitor control panel and look at the monitor settings in use. If you are set to 640x480 @ 60Hz, then they did the Hi Res mod and not the VGA mod. If it is @ 60Hz, there is a good chance that the display is flickering because there is a shift in frequency between the lights in the room and the display. (like watching a TV in the background on a TV show). Try using it in the dark with no light source. If the problem goes away, then it is clearly that. If it does not go away or is running in 67Hz VGA mode, then you have some other problem. As far as I know, they pump those 603s out factory style. (I can't imagine they are making too much profit for them.) Really if you look at parts... unless they have all of the 6200's sitting around with TV tuners and AV cards built in, they are putting a fair amount of money into them. A CC costs at least $60, tv/av = 30, HD = 20-30, mem = $10-20, logic board = 25-30, thats a total of $170, then you pay $325 for it. Thats about $155.00 in labor. I charge $60 for consulting and repair so, that is about 2 hours and 35 minutes. I would have a hard time building a PCC with all of that stuff in it in 2.5 hours. I have it down to about an 8 hour process. That is taking my time. So, if it were to take 8 hours, that would only be about $19 an hour. Not too bad but not awesome either. Oh well, I guess they must be doing all right because they are always for sale on eBay.
Scott
