[ferrija1]

Great avatar Noyb.

I just made a new one for me with a bunch of Calvin and Hobbes pictures. then I was going to add hats to them but I got lazy.

[bandit429]

omg hahahahhahahahahahaha wait til Linda sees that.

[dotty999]

Originally Posted by Noyb

NO .. But I've had to install Parental controls ..

that cat is the double of my Jake

[kingman99]

Hey

Right now l'm playing the DVD "Field of Dreams" when it ends l will look at it again to see if l woke any pixels up. Is one run through the DVD enough to tell me if it works or not.

Thanks

Alan

[Noyb]

Don't really know.
Got a new monitor about a year ago ... it had a bad pixel.
I decided to play with it awhile before taking it back.
A couple days later .. it was good as new .. and still is.

[kingman99]

I will try the download that you suggested. I spoke to the seller who happens to be local and he will take it back but being tht he is a poor grad student, get this Princeton Univ minimum $38,000 a year l will try to get through this.

Alan

[ramjam]

PC World has a section on pixel massages...http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,12.../article.html#

[Noyb]

Thanks ... Interesting info ...
They stole my "Goose it Procedure" .. and changed it to a "Massage it Routine" ... maybe because it sounds better.
Wonder where they (you) were ... Back when I needed it

Unstick Your Pixels

Sometimes, your LCD's pixels get stuck, requiring a mild jolt to get them operating again. If you have an annoying pixel that just won't let go of one color, try using your fingertip wrapped in a soft, clean cloth to massage the pixel very, very gently for 10 to 15 seconds.

If that doesn't unstick it, download the free Stuck Pixel Fixer video file from PSP-Vault, and run it for a couple of hours (look for the download link at the bottom of the description). The video's rapidly flashing colors have fixed several of my stuck pixels. To play the video, which was originally designed for the Sony PlayStation Portable, you need QuickTime or another media player that supports MPEG-4 files. Note that this technique works with stuck pixels, but not dead ones, which typically appear black.

[Klaatu01]

There is a tip on "PC Top Tips" from the U.K. that worked for me!
http://www.pctoptips.co.uk/toptips/tt12display.html

I gently laid the monitor flat on its back before gently rubbing the spot where the stuck/shifted pixel was located. I am read the LCD crystals sit in little pockets, and this makes me think of the black "masking" used on the inside of CRT screens to give the picture sharpness. I dunno, could be accurate description.

I fixed a "white only" pixel on a Samsung SyncMaster 19" using this technique but, my co-workers had already obtained a RMA # for it so back to the factory it had to go.

Sometimes you just can't win.