What are you using to clean it with? I might give this a try!
-Chris
On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 02:42 AM, Heiko Cultus wrote:
>
> I have only cleaned the contacts of the white cable coming from the
> screen, that
> is attached to the StrongARM with the adhesive tape (see
> http://newton.tek-ed.com/newtspeed/img0002.htm) and only the side where
> the
> cable is attached to the mainboard.
> My hole story on sunday was, that I had the screen misalignment, tried
> the
> businesscard trick, because it often had worked for me, but after that,
> my
> screen didn't work anymore, only the backlight was ok. So I opened my
> Newton,
> removed the white cable from the mainboard, attached it again and my
> screen
> worked again (yes, without the screen misalignment)
>
> Heiko
>
>
> "Smith, Bradley" wrote:
>>
>> Which contacts are we talking about here?
>> I took mine apart and removed the ribbon connecting the screen to the
>> main
>> board and cleaned it. It did help a bit but it's still out of
>> alignment. Do
>> I need to clean some other contacts?
>>
>> Brad
>>> I can agree on this. I have opened my Newton last sunday,
>>> because of a screen
>>> misalignment, cleaned the contacts and everything was fine again.
>
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