Saw a clump of dead pixels on my 30" and just about had a heart attack

[AdamK47]

Paid over $1000 for my 30" DoubleSight DS-307W last year. It has been pixel perfect since buying it. Not a single dead or stuck pixel. Tonight I noticed a large clump of about 10 pixels that looked dead. Moved the white cursor over top to confirm. Yep the pixels were dead. Turned the monitor off and on they were still dead. I then tapped that part of the screen and to my amazement the pixels turned back on. What gives? I've never seen this happen before.

 

[cbk]

You have been blessed by the Lord of Monitors, don't question what has happened! ()

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

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My original post has been deleted by me on further reflection, because there is too much risk that someone (e.g. an inexperienced person), may actually do more HARM than good. Better safe, than sorry.

 

[corkyg]

Since the cluster of pixels came back, the question now is, have they stayed that way? If so, they are not dead. I would suspect a cable/connection problem. Switch cable?

 

[AdamK47]

Turning the monitor off/on, rebooting, and switching resolutions did nothing. All I had to do was lightly tap once on that area and they magically turned back on. The DVI-D cable wasn't moved at all. Booted the PC up this morning and the pixels were still working.

It wasn't dust either. I've seen dust stuck behind an LCD screen before. There would be pixels on, but darker around the area if that were the case. These pixels where completely black, as in off black.

Usually you have dead pixels out of the box on a monitor or they develop in a short period after first using it. I've had this monitor for over a year, so it was surprising to see it.

 

[corkyg]

OK - you don't have dead pixels. Whatever it was may have corrected itself when you tapped the area. Keep on keeping on!

 

[loddie]

I've had that occur on a past monitor, though it was only a single green pixel that would go away when rubbed.

 

[Sheep221]

You have been blessed by the Lord of Monitors, don't question what has happened! ()

This :biggrin:
Funny, I always had only cheap LCDs and none of them ever had dead pixels.

 

[vbuggy]

Perhaps it's on it's way out.

Besides, usually it's stuck, not dead as such, pixels - power cycling won't sort it out, but there are some utilities around which might be able to wrest control back to the pixels if they go again and tapping won't cure it.

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Perhaps it's on it's way out.

Besides, usually it's stuck, not dead as such, pixels - power cycling won't sort it out, but there are some utilities around which might be able to wrest control back to the pixels if they go again and tapping won't cure it.

thought Id post one of such utilities, though if you google I'm sure there are more. Always nice to have options.............

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Others/Rizone-Pixel-Repair.shtml

 

[xeledon20005]

sounds like you got lucky, ive got a dead pixel on my asus 24" 144hz its dead tapped at it and changed res. its only 1 dead pixel can't rma because asus wants atleast 10 dead for rma or some shit like that.

 

[Puffnstuff]

This is why I run dell, 1 dead pixel and they'll replace it.