Infected LCD?

I replaced the LCD in my old Dell craptop when a number of multicolored lines appeared down the middle of the screen which got better when I pressed hard on the bezel (obviously busted contacts in the monitor) with a new screen from ScreenCountry. However, about 2 months after replacing the screen I noticed a small number of pencil eraser sized gray blobs had appeared on the left and right sides of the screen. Another month has passed and the number of blobs has approximately doubled. They're definitely in the monitor and not on the surface. The monitor has never, nor has the system, ever had contact with any liquids. Is it possible this replacement LCD is infected with some kind of mold?

I saw this once years ago when I had to replace the LCD screen in another laptop for someone else, and when I dissected the LCD, whatever it was, was in the plastic diffuser and literally nothing could make it come off, not soap/water, not glass cleaner, not even sandpaper. I thought it was very odd, but never gave it any more thought.

Had anyone else ever encountered something like this?

 

can you provide some pictures to show these blobs?

 

Its dust behind your screen

 

Dust doesn't grow. Mold does. If it is indeed mold (which is very possible), that's the first time I've ever heard of it. It wouldn't surprise me though.

 

I bet for some reason your screen is de-laminating,might of had pressure on it at one time.But i could be wrong.

 

Yeah dust doesn't grow but it can get into almost anything. My old 6860fx eventually got some specs of dust behind the screen and it was exactly what the op described.

 

I'll try to get some decent pictures of it so you can see what I am talking about.

 

bottom line is that if it's broken, it's broken. nothing that you or anyone can do about it except to return it for refund/replacement.

 

Yes, that was a terribly helpful reply...

 

AFAIK molds grow on places where they can feed themselves. In other words, they grow on food.

I am wondering what they are eating inside an LCD.


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Can mold use certain types of plastic as food?

 

Plastic is completely inorganic. AFAIK none of the living organisms can consume it. That's why it takes over a few thousand years for the plastic to decompose in the nature.


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So wait plant based plastics are inorganic? LOL

I dont know of any LCD's using bioplastics so i doubt it, but still had to put that out there.

Mind you the sun is much better at breaking them down! Too bad its all buried.

 

many plastics are produced from non-renewable hydrocarbons resources (such as natural gas, crude oil, etc), so many plastics are considered organic by the strict chemistry definition.

@Paralel, can you take a picture? i doubt it is mold that is causing the problem.

 

I wasn't even gonna go there lol, yeah being carbon based pretty much makes it organic.

 

Well what the hell do you want?? A pat on the head telling you it's all going to be ok?

If it's broken, return it.

 

Maybe it's an OLED display

j/k, bad taste from me.

Most likely, bad pressure points from the cover warping, or the backlight --> digitizer has something sliding inbetween it...

 

Inorganic compound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Further off topic but you managed to skip everything else i wrote! I dont see Plastic in that article u might want to edit it