Late last week I woke up my computer in the morning and saw a small line of red/black pixels a little off the center of my screen. The next day, it doubled in size from about 1/4 inch to a 1/2 inch. Next day, just a little longer yet.
Today I Googled the issue and had a few solutions come up, which I tried. The first one was to gently rub a pencil eraser along the line. Another was to do the same thing with a warm, damp (not wet) wash cloth. Third one said tap on the dead pixels with the rounded end of a marker or something similar.
Well, I did all of them and the line of pixels now is not a distinct line, but more of a blurry one. It also looks a little wider in some places with a few multi-color/black pixels.
Has anyone had this issue before and if so, how did you fix it? I don't want to spend a few hundred on a new monitor if this one is fine. I've been told this could also happen due to video card issues and such, but I am not hardware literate. My expertise was on the software side of a Mac. This is hardware/PC.
Patrick
Posted by LeDaemon (Member # 198) on :
I'm guessing this has something to do with a LCD type flatscreen and not like my old VGA monitor. I haven't run into anything like that before. Now I'm wondering how common that is for that type of monitor before I plunk down some cash for a new one....
Posted by prevaricator82 (Member # 22717) on :
it could be something they call "dead pixels" which happens with LCD screens sometimes, i believe...
here's something you could try... resize the resoultion to something other than your current setting and see if it makes any difference... if not, then it may be a problem with the monitor, but if it does make a diffeerence, then maybe the video card is at fault...
Posted by A&F_FootDude_05 (Member # 2999) on :
Did you ever figure out the line of missing pixels, Patrick??