Dead Pixel Software

Can anyone recommend a program that shows any dead pixels I might have on my screen? I've never used one of those programs and am just curious how it works and also if one program works for all LCD screens?

 

http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/DeadPixels.html

 

Thanks. Used it and I don't see any dead pixels.

 

Great !!!

 

I use DeadPixelBuddy

 

Thanks. I like this one even better! I'm using a pretty old LCD monitor (hooked up to an even older desktop) so I can't believe it doesn't have any dead pixels.

 

Just find a website that will show your whole monitor in Red/Green/Blue as well as white and black and you're set Why use software?

(And like that a photograph will do)

 

Its funny, I find that you dont get pixels dying over time. Its either you buy a screen and it has dead pixels in it or it doesnt, but most likely it will never get any after that unless you apply too much pressure on it by plugging the connector behind to hard or w/e.

 

Cause the website won't be completely one color, especially since your browser has chrome wrapped around the webpage...unless you fullscreen. DPB is portable software, no need to install anyways.

 

Fullscreen via F11

I suppose its OK if its installation free.

 

EizoMonitorTest > All of these so far.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Windows-Widgets/System-Utilities/Eizo-MonitorTest.shtml

 

Definitely right, this is by far better than all previously mentioned options. Thanks.

No offense to all others who helped.

 

I agree, very useful; although It just made me realize the screen on my laptop sucks

 

Judging from that my laptop's screen would be pretty good...

(Well, its definitely not bad )

 

This new G73 screen appears to be the nicest of any laptop I have had so far but using the monitor test I found it lacks detail in the lowest blacks and brightest whites.

I created a computer background in photoshop the other day and when I put on the computer it was for it looked way different. This goes to show you what looks good doesn't mean its accurate.

But laptop screens are not ever really going to be on par with professional quality desktop monitors unless they are specially made for it.

 

Eh, it shows color banding even on the highest level, but everything else isn't that bad, better than the Acer I bought for my aunt.

 

You don't have a Vaio SZ, have you?

 

I ran the test on my HDX 18, the one in my sig.

 

And I ran it on my SZ that's in my sig

So, different laptops -> different results.

 

open paint. fill white, save "white.bmp", fill red, save "red.bmp" .. same for green and blue and if you want black.

go to those pictures, and fullscreenshow them.

basic computer tasks doable since years? i prefer that to any app or webpage. works anywhere without any exe with me, any internet connection required, etc..

 

So you need to d/l that monitor test program lol... it does all that in seconds and it does install it just runs, its a portable application. Does any color you want + a lot more.

Just making a single .bmp would take longer than d/l and running the program and the program uses less space than a single bmp.

 

how do you do that if you're at a client that has no internet connection? and not prepared that crap to be with you?

in short: i know how to do this without the need for ANYTHING. this is always better. one less thing to rely on. and one thing more where one doesn't need a "magical program", but just applies it's own geek-knowledge of what a computer by default is capable of to handle the task.

but the app is fine of course. it's just a sorta blackbox solution.

other than that, one could just cycle the wall paper trough solid colour presets to quickly test for pixels that don't behave..

 

Well., I don't know about you, but if I was a 'Client' (i.e. a paying customer) I'd expect my tech guy to arrive with appropriate tools....

 

If you have to use specialized software in order to spot dead pixels, does it really matter that you have dead pixels? I have never noticed dead pixels with my 1.5 year laptop and I probably wouldn't want to know. If I use such software and I find out dead pixels, then I would start to notice it. I would start to pay attention to it. That would bother me even though it doesn't bother me before. It is probably best if you don't know it. As long the screen looks perfect with your eyes, you should be happy with it.

 

I agree with hendra. I read this after i did the screen test, and now i'm like "phew!"

 

i never talked about paying customers. but even there, knowing what a system gives you by default allows for two things:

less extra-stuff to take with, a clean and better tool chain.

much more flexibility and proof that you actually know your stuff.

i can adapt to the needs of my customers. others that have to rely on tool a) or tool b) and all that, can't. esp. as some customers hate starting random exes. even if you tell them it's all fine. can you prove them? no. you just trust that random software as much as he has to.

better know how the system helps you to handle a task, than to rely on foreign untrustable software instead.



and yes to hendra: if you don't notice a dead pixel, there's nothing to care about. you notice them quickly in any ordinary daily usage of your system, normally.


in short, to reformulate your quote, olyteddy: " if I was a 'Client' (i.e. a paying customer) I'd expect my tech guy to arrive with appropriate KNOWLEDGE...". most 'tech guys that ask for money' don't have that. scary.