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    Dead Pixel on Sager 2090??

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Lavitz, Feb 7, 2008.

  1. Lavitz

    Lavitz Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey, guys i woke this morning opened turned on my laptop and noticed a something shinning green 1 pixel big on the screen. i turn comp and on still there. So im guessing its a dead pixel?

    What should i do and how did all of sudden have a dead pixel ??
     
  2. Fade To Black

    Fade To Black The Bad Ass

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    If you panic it woun't help. It might be stuck pixel.
     
  3. webdtc

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    Sounds like a stuck pixel. Sometimes they go away and there are some things you can do to try to make it go away.

    Dead pixels are black and you can't do anything about those.
     
  4. Lavitz

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    restarted bro, and turned it off and there was nothin there so yeah it was dead pixel alright. yeah im really angry atm because i had so many things planned for the weekend with the laptop (lan) and i cant enjoy that if i look a lime glowing pixel. in center of the screen ..

    should i return it to sager when i have the chance so they can deal it with or there is a way i can get rid of it ?
     
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    You can return in it in the first 30 days of the purchase.
     
  6. Lavitz

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    So there is no way to fix this but return it???
     
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    Are you sure it's a dead pixel?
     
  8. Lavitz

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    Okay, ofc it its glowing doesnt matter what i do it it still glows lol starts to glow when i turn on comp. Stop glowing when screen is off. Its not dust or anything like that. So it has be a dead pixel .
     
  9. Shyster1

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    If it glows when the screen is on, then it's not a dead pixel, it's a stuck pixel. A dead pixel, by definition, does not light up when the screen is turned on. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_pixel .

    Since your pixel glows lime green when the screen is on, it is, by definition, a stuck pixel. See id.

    Stuck pixels, and to a lesser extent, may be fixed (no guarantees, just different methods that have some reasonable possibility of success) using some of the methods listed on these pages:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_pixel
    http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Stuck-Pixel-on-an-LCD-Monitor

    or else, google "fix stuck dead pixel" and see what else turns up. :smile:
     
  10. webdtc

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    omg. Shyster1 just said what I said but with more words and links!

    I would have thought Google "stuck pixel" would be the next common sense thing to do :)

    Just kidding around...
     
  11. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Aah, I see you've discovered the secret to how lawyers make the big bucks - repeating what someone else said, but with a lot more words (and bigger 'uns, too - sometimes we can manage 3-syllables :D ). Of course, if you've ever listened carefully to a lot of what comes out of a lawyer's mouth, you may notice that everything s/he says is (a) perfectly true, but (b) perfectly useless. For example:

    a couple is up in a hot-air balloon when they run into a huge fog bank. Not sure where they are, they gently let the air out so the balloon slowly sinks. Eventually they begin to see the ground through the mist and, almost immediately, they see a man standing on a small hill. As the balloon draws nigh to the hill, the woman calls down to the man, "We're lost; can you tell us where we are?"

    To which the man replies, "why, you're right here, of course."

    "Are you a lawyer?" asks the woman.

    "Why, yes, I am; I've been a barrister for thirty years. How did you know?"

    "Because what you just said before was both perfectly true, and perfectly useless" answers the woman.

    ba-dum! :D Don't get me started on more lawyer jokes. :chatterbox:

    'Nother thing, too - lawyers are show-offs, so of course I had to show off my googlin' skills :D (as well as the fact that I finally figured out how to customize my links :rolleyes: ).

    Then again, every so often I eat something funny for lunch that gives me indigestion and makes me want to be helpful (as I understand the term :p ).:confused2:

    Besides which, while it was perfectly reasonable, sane, and rational* of you to think that common sense would immediately suggest a search on "stuck pixel," :notworthy: , I've always found that common sense is generally un-common. :nah:

    *By-the-by, did you know that the really annoying habit legal documents have of saying everything at least twice, like "to have and to hold," or "sells, conveys, transfers, or otherwise disposes of," (what a mouthful :swoon: ) originated in Merrye Olde Englande as a result of the Norman conquest, after which, in order to make sure that the local yokels "got" the gist of what was in the fancy French legal documents the Normans used to swindle the Saxons' land, pigs, and etc, those documents would include the Saxon term along with the original French term. At least that's what I understand about that particular little ... quirk. :D
     
  12. Lavitz

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    i will try to fix this damn pixel :p and sorry for not knowing everything. lol i guess i should have googled more but i was panicy :p since i woke up to "stuck pixel" first thing i noticed was the neon light from hell when i fliped open the notebook. So gonna cross my fingers and use those methods provided in your link when i get home.
     
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    If it`s a stuck pixel, and 95% chance that it is one, you`ll get it rid of it,just follow the instructions, I found numerous pages that deal with this kind of things. Mighty google, hail..
     
  14. Lavitz

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    yeah i am running jscreen fix right now been running for a good 10 mins now and no fix :( ill run it for another 10 and then i should try physical methods on the screen ?
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    i am running it jscreenfix in firefox window and i have dragged over my stuck pixel that remains to glow green :(