Fix a stuck pixel on an LCD monitor

Step 5: Enjoy your now flawless monitor!

Enjoy your monitor without those annoying stuck pixels!

And as I said before, this will obviously only work on LCD monitors.

Comments

[MrJLatino]

Hi, i have a question: can stuck pixels be fixed if they are all in a straight line that comes down across the screen? I m trying all these methods on my IMAC but its not working. Can you help me out?

[PedroDaGr8]

As others have mentioned this is either a video card issue or bad/dying LCD column driver. The latter are not fixable (to the best of my knowledge.) while according to the poster above the former are a silent recall issue for the iMac.

[Einsteins Circuitry]

Can you describe it more? Is it a vertical or horizontal line, or is it a diagonal line? Is it a solid line, or is it a bunch of stuck pixels that just happen to be in a line-like shape? If it is a solid vertical, or horizontal line, then it is a faulty lcd, and there is nothing you can do. Also, is your iMac the newer one that is aluminum and black? If it is, than the display has a glass/plastic plate over the lcd making method 2 & 3 useless.

[Richard_[UK]]

I think he means like screen burn-in...

[animaster]

LCD's can't burn in, he just got a broken LCD screen

[underwhelmed]

Actually, he has a video card issue that is well known for iMacs. If you take it to an Apple store they will fix it for you.

[Power-Inside]

I heard someone say to try moving a magnet piece near the stuck pixel..

[scistone]

don't use a big one or you need to get a new coputer.

[endolith]

"PS: If you don't already know, this will obviously only work on LCD monitors." Should be the first sentence in the Instructable; not the last.

[wenpherd]

"PS: If you don't already know, this will obviously only work on LCD monitors." Should be the first sentence in the Instructable; not the last.

[iLikeCoolStuf]

twice ???/

[arduinoe]

third times the charm

[CaffeineHouse]

hurrr.. DS's have LCD screens in them too.

[DavidRobertson]

that reminds me. Mine has a stuck pixel.

[tanmanknex]

look at my post further up.

[endolith]

DSes?

[Einsteins Circuitry]

Good idea. I'm changing it right now...

[computer_guy]

T.T it didn't work I tried all the methods. That is one stubborn stuck pixel.

[eggman]

wait, i see a flaw... its a mac

[blacksmith1234]

if you have ever used a mac you would know that if it dosent run an apple OS its not a computer NO EXCEPTIONS (except linux =3 )

[macmaniac]

how could you. Kill the non-believer!! sorry. i love macs and hate microsoft

[Derin]

MACS STINK KILL THE MAC LOVER

[Ganoderma]

doesn't everyone hate Microsoft :) I mean, we all know windows is bad but we have no choice then to use it if you want to play games or something

[thermoelectric]

NO microsoft is soo cool then Linux mac is soooooo boring

[darth2o]

There is nothing wrong with Macs. The best computer to run Vista is actually a Mac. YEAH!!!

[Swert]

That's not true. Macs are just held to a higher standard than PCs simply because PCs have no standard. You can make a way better PC than a Mac. But the Mac OS is better, but it lacks in third party support.

[adamthiede]

Why would you want to run vista anyway... Leopard, or even Tiger (what i have) Is SO much better!

[Derin]

leopard was caught red handed

[MrPumpernickel]

I don't know if being able to run a flawed and bloated OS is something to be proud about :P

[weretater]

Yeah Vista really sucks, but what can i say? I'm not even running on an authentic version of Windows (I have XPTE). I just may have to do this once i get my tri-wing screw driver I ordered so I can fix my DS.

[WilderLust]

uummm... correction! the fastest name brand computer to run Vista is a Mac. i have been building my own computers for over 20 years and have consistently blown away any name brand computer every year. for the price you cannot beat a well made computer that you put together yourself.

cheers
WL

[djtrailmixxx]

Correct, and if you compare a Dual Xeon Mac Pro to like some Emachines piece of garbage, yeah, I can see what the outcome would be when using Vista. It's funny how many Mac fanatics (not all users, I use one at work) believe that BS. It's been proven time and time again that on the SAME Mac hardware the the PC version of a dual platform app, I.E. Photoshop That App performs better on the Windows platform that is installed on said box............Nuff Said!

[bishopdante]

Oh yeah, and by the way i'm rocking i7 in my 17 inch macbook pro, and if I start doing crazy stuff to a photoshop file which measures 10,000 pixels square, it doesn't even bring up bars. At first I thought it must be broken, it was that fast.

I'm not sure that speed is actually an argument, I'd need to upgrade my reflexes to get my work done faster.

[bishopdante]

well, I did rather notice that the Adobe stuff stinks on OSX rather a lot.

Photoshop particularly ran a hell of a lot slower than it should. Compared to a true OSX program like Pixelmator, the performance difference was scary.

This is because all of the Adobe stuff was written for an OS that was discontinued a decade ago, and written in C++. Adobe's stuff was even written using Metrowerks, which was also discontinued.

I remember the days when you couldn't get Photoshop on the PC, apple made Adobe what they are today.

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I am pleased to report that on the OSX platform, now the adobe apps have been rewritten using something fresh, they actually use the GPU as they should (which they didn't used to), and it's all much less ancient (no more spinning 1-bit 16 pixel watch icon cursor).

I can also report that Flash still sucks for OSX.

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OSX is not Mac. It's NeXT. And that stuff leaves your shoddy windows BS in the dust with a true NIX runtime, (not Linux counterfeit), Protected Memory, and a platform-independent system which will allow apple to rapidly migrate to any future hardware architecture they fancy.

This is not apple of the stripey logo, this is something else.

I'm not 100% sure I like it that way, especially the admin jail potential, but y'know, Mac is a serious platform these days, and if you have any critical faculties whatsoever, then you've got to like OSX.

I've run all the MS operating systems in my studio since 1990. I've also run most of the major Linuxes.

Windows is a pit of vipers and shoddiness of heart.

Linux is screamingly fast, but a bit ugly, and certainly not free from buggy behaviour. I reckon that you have to be well into stripping that stuff down, it's not suitable for a casual user yet. But when it gets there, it'll be what I'm using.

[dbecker6]

you are correct Sir! My fav is my AMD Athlon single core 3700,Zalman, 4 GB Ram, Asus A8n-SLI Deluxe, 2 W/D Raptors, OCD'to 3.2 SWEET!

[timotat]

Now hold my good man, you have not heard my argument!
Ahem
Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Binary. Computer Babble. Cthulu. Steampunk. 10010101011, Dancing Russian Bears.

Stuff That up your pipe and smoke it, my good man!

[Grmgunner]

are you an amd fanatic or are you willing to go to intel every now and then? if yes then your a good man!! i like both really it all depends on watcha wana do ya kno?

[WilderLust]

well... actually there is much more to performance than the CPU. focusing on the CPU only is like buying a ford pinto with a formula engine... you still got a pinto! the type of ram, the mb, the bios, the hd, the gc and many more things are very critical. another often overlooked item is the lowly power supply. too many cheapos messing machines more than most people realize. that is not even mentioning the applications you are looking at. a game machine will not necessarily be a good choice for a development machine or a business machine. just as a formula car would not be very useful for driving around town. anyway... the only thing apple hardware has going for it is that people are willing to pay more for them so they can use better hardware and still make money. people have nickel and dimed the PC makers for decades and have driven them to build chap machines then we complain that they don't have as high a performance. guess what folks... there is no free lunch... you get what you pay for... if you do your homework! i used to tell my student this would happen. when a society becomes so selfish as to not care about the consequences of its greed the fabric of society disintegrates. this goes way beyond computers of course... but i digress! cheers :-)

[rocketman221]

the only way to get a good computer is to build it yourself

[djtrailmixxx]

EXACTLY!!!! For example: I have all of my storage on an enterprise class raid controller that costs over $400 alone. Quality does cost you money, thats the way it works. More money doesn't mean something is actually better, testing and experience determine that.