[DM-MUG] Q ref little dots on monitor

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Victoria L. Herring <VLH at herringlaw.com> wrote:
> Anyone heard of this = I noticed it appeared with people's faces and
> then that it shows on the desktop too  - had an image on it and the
> little tiny dots would outline facial features = I switched to plain
> old Apple blue desktop and now it's like the milky Way is going
> across the monitor = friend thought it might be monitor powre supply.
> It just started fairly recently [i.e., today] but I do recall seeing
> it before awhile ago = then it went away.
>
> It happened lst with Safari and I thought it might be that, then saw
> them on the Desktop image and so its the monitor, the video card,
> maybe the power supply.  Applecare is gone for this, I think.

Do they look like stuck pixels? Sometimes the individual dots of
colour that make up a screen get stuck on or off or sometimes even one
of the primary colours. It most commonly happens when the monitor is
brand new off the manufacturing floor or as it's nearing the end of
it's life.

I've heard of various tricks that can reset them. I did a google
search for stuck pixel lcd and this was the first link:

http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Stuck-Pixel-on-an-LCD-Monitor

The only other thing I've heard of is dust or liquid getting in
between the layers of the LCD (there are layers of filters in front of
the actual LCD electronic display). I have a monitor like this
currently. It doesn't change (i.e. it's not sometimes there and
sometimes gone, it's always there). It looks more like a smudge than
dots of colour so I doubt this is your problem.

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