JayPSC

Came home today & turned the pc on & noticed I had about 4 dead pixels in the middle of the screen, was a bit pissed off but then noticed that the pixels were crawing across the screen

Somehow a tiny crawly thing has gotten between the layers so it looks like I'll have to take it apart to get the little ******* out, anything I should look out for when I'm doing it?

Jay

what would scooby do

bin it and replace !

JayPSC

Lol, I dont think chucking a £150 TFT just cause it has a tiny insect in it is really an option...

Soulgirl

I squashed two moths and a weeny fly on two of mine today! Pesky varmits

Hang on! £150!! Thats damn reasonable if its a bigun

chiark

Difficult, bordering on the impossible. TFTs are bonded to the electronics at their edges using bloody delicate connections that, if they fail, are nearly impossible to replace without a lot of dedicated hardware. It is *not* a DIY job.

Take the thing apart, but be extra careful around the edges, and if it looks like you have to do anything other than simply remove a protective screen, or something around the back, forget it.

You'll know you've knackered it if you get a solid line of red, green or blue (or combination of those - r+g=yellow, r+b=purple, g+b=cyan, r+g+b=white) either horizontally or vertically across the screen and you're ****ed. If you do get into that situation, try packing the tape out on the edges of the screen...

Debugging eh?

DemonDave

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LOL @ debugging

JayPSC

Got home & seems he's crawled his way out thank god. Wasn't looking forward to taking it apart.
Hopefully he aint just sleeping lol