So I hadn't cleaned my monitor for 3 months, and it had dust all over it so you could barely see the black screen underneath. I took a micro fiber cloth that came with my glasses and wiped the whole screen, and all it did was smudge the dust into the screen. Then I put water on it, very light amount, and wiped it. Just made the dust sticky and smudged it more. Then I put two drops of what I thought was baby shampoo into a cup of water, and dipped the micro fiber into it the water, and wiped the screen. Same problem.
Then I realized it just looked like my baby shampoo, but was actually shampoo with essential oils in it. Now we're talking a cup of water, two decent drops of shampoo, and that whatever 10% of that shampoo being oil. So not a ton of oil, but some.
But I knew I had to get it off, so then I had to use more water to try to get it off. I didn't dunk the monitor into the bath or anything, but I got the micro fiber wet enough that if you squeezed it, multiple drops of water would fall on the floor. And when I wiped the computer screen, there were various lines of water almost drops all across the screen, so I got it pretty wet. Then I wiped it down softly, and still the dust was all smudged.
Then when I dried it more, I decided since nothing else was getting the dust off, to push harder and really rub in circular motions like you're trying to wax a car pretty good. Doing this for half an hour or so seems to have finally gotten a lot of the dust off. I also got water down by the edges of the screen, where the LCD stuff is, to get the dust off there. I'm worried if it's not sealed that water/oil could have gotten inside the edges of the screen.
There was already a scratch on it from 5 months ago when I got it from the box, and a few dead pixels on the side, so I always knew I would probably return it since it has a 2 year warranty, I just didn't want to deal with it now. Do you think I basically ruined it or does washing the stuff off, and the small amount of oil, not a huge amount, mean I might have saved it? I'm also worried about how hard I had to rub it to get the dust off at all, and that this can cause more scratches? What do you guys think?
Then I realized it just looked like my baby shampoo, but was actually shampoo with essential oils in it. Now we're talking a cup of water, two decent drops of shampoo, and that whatever 10% of that shampoo being oil. So not a ton of oil, but some.
But I knew I had to get it off, so then I had to use more water to try to get it off. I didn't dunk the monitor into the bath or anything, but I got the micro fiber wet enough that if you squeezed it, multiple drops of water would fall on the floor. And when I wiped the computer screen, there were various lines of water almost drops all across the screen, so I got it pretty wet. Then I wiped it down softly, and still the dust was all smudged.
Then when I dried it more, I decided since nothing else was getting the dust off, to push harder and really rub in circular motions like you're trying to wax a car pretty good. Doing this for half an hour or so seems to have finally gotten a lot of the dust off. I also got water down by the edges of the screen, where the LCD stuff is, to get the dust off there. I'm worried if it's not sealed that water/oil could have gotten inside the edges of the screen.
There was already a scratch on it from 5 months ago when I got it from the box, and a few dead pixels on the side, so I always knew I would probably return it since it has a 2 year warranty, I just didn't want to deal with it now. Do you think I basically ruined it or does washing the stuff off, and the small amount of oil, not a huge amount, mean I might have saved it? I'm also worried about how hard I had to rub it to get the dust off at all, and that this can cause more scratches? What do you guys think?
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