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Message 430699 - Posted: 4 Oct 2006, 10:59:57 UTC
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have a look at this:





saw it yesterday for the first time and today, after my pc was about 7hrs. off and seti also, it´s still there!

i don´t know what to think about that, is that really a screenSAVER??!
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Message 430734 - Posted: 4 Oct 2006, 12:13:48 UTC

Screensaver is not exactly the best word used here. It is a screen display, using the screensaver properties of the OS.


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Message 430981 - Posted: 4 Oct 2006, 23:08:35 UTC - in response to Message 430699.  

have a look at this:





saw it yesterday for the first time and today, after my pc was about 7hrs. off and seti also, it´s still there!

i don´t know what to think about that, is that really a screenSAVER??!

You MAY be able to fix it doing this: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/lcds/remove-lcd-image-burnin-146469.php

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Message 431243 - Posted: 5 Oct 2006, 11:02:16 UTC

thx for your help so far...

is there any way to contact seti directly? i would like to hear their opinion!
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Message 431263 - Posted: 5 Oct 2006, 12:04:26 UTC - in response to Message 431243.  

thx for your help so far...
is there any way to contact seti directly? i would like to hear their opinion!

Seti personel page is here http://boinc.berkeley.edu/contact.php
Although they have in the past stated that the "screen saver" is NOT a screen saver in the truest sense of the word, it is a graphical image of the what the cpu is doing.
In Classic the "screen saver" did not move around, the new one in Boinc does at least move around, but is still not a true "screen saver".

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Message 431279 - Posted: 5 Oct 2006, 12:28:35 UTC

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/info.php

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Message 431548 - Posted: 5 Oct 2006, 23:24:21 UTC - in response to Message 431243.  

thx for your help so far...

is there any way to contact seti directly? i would like to hear their opinion!


Why? Do you plan on yelling at them and insisting they pay for your monitor? Unforunately, they're covered (see Ageless's post above).
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Message 431698 - Posted: 6 Oct 2006, 10:36:49 UTC
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no...i don´t want to get hysteric! ;)
i just like the seti program and i´m in for a couple of years now.
so i´m just kind of curious what they gonna say!
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Message 431761 - Posted: 6 Oct 2006, 12:23:35 UTC - in response to Message 431698.  

no...i don´t want to get hysteric! ;)
i just like the seti program and i´m in for a couple of years now.
so i´m just kind of curious what they gonna say!

Berkeley contact info here http://boinc.berkeley.edu/contact.php

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Message 431839 - Posted: 6 Oct 2006, 17:03:05 UTC - in response to Message 431698.  
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no...i don´t want to get hysteric! ;)
i just like the seti program and i´m in for a couple of years now.
so i´m just kind of curious what they gonna say!


This is exactly what they'll say (please focus your attention to the section entitled "Liability"):

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Message 440090 - Posted: 19 Oct 2006, 19:02:06 UTC - in response to Message 431243.  

thx for your help so far...

is there any way to contact seti directly? i would like to hear their opinion!


I'm not with seti management, but have you tried to degause your monitor and then demagintize the screen once? Just like TV screens, this normally will clean them on the inside.
Hope this info helps you with this problem.
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Message 440125 - Posted: 19 Oct 2006, 20:12:27 UTC - in response to Message 440090.  

I'm not with seti management, but have you tried to degause your monitor and then demagintize the screen once? Just like TV screens, this normally will clean them on the inside.
Hope this info helps you with this problem.
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Won't work, as I think the person said it was an LCD.


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