Weird LCD problem.

[Sar]

Thanks to recommendations from Nath, Dagaffer et al in the hardware forum, I purchased this widescreen LCD/TFT from Misco, to replace the 9 year old 17" Dell CRT I've loved for many a long year.

Now it's been fine, (nay great!) so far, and I have just now installed the DVI-DVI cable I got today to replace the standard DSub-DSub cable I got with the monitor.

Problem is I now have a flickering pixel.

It's invisible and not a problem when the screen is light/white in the area of the weird pixel, but when it's dark in that area it flickers green-ish. Not solidly, but it flickers like a little green star in the inky depth of cold harsh space as seen through an atmosphere.

I don't want no stars dammit!

I think it may be a stuck pixel, rather than a dead pixel, but is there any way to unstick it?

PS: I know this should be in the hardware forum, but in here sees more traffic than over there ever does.

 

[Sar]

Update - it's now disappeared, but I assume it will be back...

 

[Athan]

Well, if it does it again, read carefully, especially the caveats about it possibly causing more problems.

-Ath
P.S. That was the first hit Googling for "lcd tft stuck pixel"

 

[Sar]

I'm a lazy bastard, I know. But google hasn't been my friend over the past few days, so I thought I'd ask the peeps here, as they're always reliable.


As has been proven

Cheers Athan