How do I fix a bug in my flat screen 22" monitor

[Alan_B]

I have just seen a small spot the size of a full stop crawling across my Samsung monitor screen.

It looked as if it is on the front surface,

but it is not affected when I wipe the screen with my podgy paw.

 

There it is again - zigzagging and meandering, and totally unaffected when I switch Tabs from one website to another.

 

Is the interior of the monitor hospitable to carbon based insects ?

Am I subject to an alien silicon based life form ?

[Andavari]

Download a "dead pixel fix" from YouTube, this is just a random search for them:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dead+pixel+fix&oq=dead+pix&gs_l=youtube.1.1.0l10.786.2199.0.5437.8.8.0.0.0.0.120.795.4j4.8.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.aWQ6jWJZ3zc

 

Caveat: If you or your family have a history of epilepsy don't look at the flashing colours!!!

 

Good luck because those dead pixel fixes don't always work, and you may have to leave them running/repeating for hours.

 

What I'd do is download one of those videos you like (preferrably a longer playing one) using a YouTube video downloader, and then use some conversion software such as DVD Flick (free) which can convert YouTube's FLV and MP4 to a DVD Video disc, and then let it play continuously over night.

[Alan_B]

That appears to address a stationary defect.

 

What I see is more like a very small ant that crawls in random directions at perhaps 0.5 cm per second.

 

An effective solution would be what I did as a child - wait till mum was busy and then boiling a kettle of water to pour down an ant's nest.

That should be safe because there is no consumer protection label warning me not to do that

[hazelnut]

Just wait for it to die Alan and really hope it doesn't lay any eggs during its stay.

[login123]

Do you still see it when you look out the window?

[Alan_B]

Thanks for that thought Hazel.

If only my monitor held a vacuum and spat out 12 kVolt electrons its eggs were not be fertile.

I wonder if I could get a patent on a pest repellent monitor like that.

 

No, I do not see them out of the window.

[Andavari]

Since it's a moving problem not a dead pixel perhaps it's a bad connection. You could try completely unplugging it; the electrical cord and the connection it has to your computer (if it's plugged into your computer do this when your computer is off), and then plug everything back in.

[Nergal]

I found few hits in the wild on something like this, one mentioned malware and a couple said monitor is dead. At least two mentions of actual bugs (insects) living within the monitor (note for that the moving spot seems random)

[Alan_B]

Thanks for the suggestion.

 

I have not seen this critter today. Perhaps it was a mayfly which only lives for one day.

If it comes back again then I will check out the connectors.

 

Its movement is definitely random, but is continuous - it does not skip or jump but just a meander.

Once I see it then it stays visible as it meanders until it falls of the edge of the screen.