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In article <199607241836.DAA00731@tubby.nff.ncl.omron.co.jp.nff.ncl.omron.co.jp> Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@nff.ncl.omron.co.jp> writes: ] I had a nasty surprise of returning to my Thinkpad that I'd left unattended ] for 10 minutes (on my desk, at home) to find the screen brilliantly white ] (note: this is different from "handsome white"). The LCD or something had ] apparenetly spazzed out. I rebooted and all seems fine. ] ] A week or so ago I saw the same thing, this time witnessing the whiteout. ] You know when you stand up too quickly and blackout, and wait for a few ] seconds and your vision slowly starts to come back, as if you're exiting a ] fuzzy tunnel? Well, the opposite happened to the screen -- over the course ] of maybe two seconds a fuzzy circle of white started off to one side and ] engulfed the whole screen. ] ] This is scary. Any ideas? Unfortunately, EasyServe service is not as fast ] as The States (I once shipped the machine from LA to Memphis to be fixed, ] and got it back THE SAME DAY). I had it into IBM Japan once and it took ] weeks. I see this occasionally on my 755CE. Also, the effect is often preceded by second long blackouts. I haven't yet done anything about it. I think its caused by letting the baby stand on the machine when the cover is closed. -- David Fox http://found.cs.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD NYU Media Research Lab fox@cs.nyu.edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN