Day 31 of new monitor, dead pixel forms.
- Thread starter Harvest
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Are you sure it's a dead pixel? Have you tried to restore it? There are these programs that stress that area by flashing colors repeatedly to "revive" shoddy pixels. If it's truly dead it won't be revived though.
I got a new monitor a while back that had a dead pixel right out of the box. I was too lazy to return it and now I get the benefit of stupidly trying to paw it off the screen once in a while when I forget why there's a fleck of black pepper permanently etch-a-sketched into the middle of my desktop.
I got a new monitor a while back that had a dead pixel right out of the box. I was too lazy to return it and now I get the benefit of stupidly trying to paw it off the screen once in a while when I forget why there's a fleck of black pepper permanently etch-a-sketched into the middle of my desktop.
I would recommed to go to http://udpix.free.fr/ and download the software to get rid dead pixels on the LCD (Requires: Net flame)
Don't even try then. I was telling you you should have tried anyway- whining isn't going to sort it.Harvest":24abpvjl said:
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"but here in north america if we dont like it then its returned."
A few retailers over here bend the rules and don't accept returns. People get understandably pissed off at it.
Well there's a difference between a dead pixel and a misbehaving one; if your pixel always stays one solid bright color, or never lights up at all, no matter what the state of the monitor it's probably dead; if it tends to respond in some situations but not others you might coax it into behaving a little better with a pixel fixer color flashing program.
My PSP for instance has had a couple lazy pixels since the day I bought it but at the time Sony was refusing to do anything about them; they usually respond properly but they stay lit when the image gets too dark. So they can respond to about the upper 50% but they just stop when they're instructed to get any dimmer.
After carefully following the instructions on a pixel fixer program and running it about half an hour I widened this margin to about 80%, meaning it's almost unnoticeable except in near-black situations. Just turning it on and walking away for two hours made no difference though, make sure you read the instructions! They usually require you to do things over the course of the operation, like for the PSP cycle the brightness occasionally.
Anyway good luck, whatever your situation is. There's not much you can do if the normal solutions don't work and the warranty is up except bitch about it; there is no way to repair dead pixels with at-home equipment.
My PSP for instance has had a couple lazy pixels since the day I bought it but at the time Sony was refusing to do anything about them; they usually respond properly but they stay lit when the image gets too dark. So they can respond to about the upper 50% but they just stop when they're instructed to get any dimmer.
After carefully following the instructions on a pixel fixer program and running it about half an hour I widened this margin to about 80%, meaning it's almost unnoticeable except in near-black situations. Just turning it on and walking away for two hours made no difference though, make sure you read the instructions! They usually require you to do things over the course of the operation, like for the PSP cycle the brightness occasionally.
Anyway good luck, whatever your situation is. There's not much you can do if the normal solutions don't work and the warranty is up except bitch about it; there is no way to repair dead pixels with at-home equipment.