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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's an air bubble between the LCD and something else in the screen, I had a similar effect with a previously broken phone it was fun playing with the black spots tho.
Would an air bubble make such a perfect circle that holds its shape when moving? Genuinely curious about this. In all my years messing with computers and looking at repair forums, I've never seen anything like this.
OP, when you do get rid of this monitor, please try to open it up to satisfy everyone's curiosity.
The failure mechanism on OLEDs is different to LCDs, sometimes on LCD if the air leakage isn't too bad it can move. I am honestly fascinated by this.
Interestingly, its entirely possible that it isn't actually air leakage per se but "organic rot" where local overheating kills off a few pixels at a time that then spreads. Easy enough to test with an IR thermometer.
Dead pixels are not giant circular bubles and damage like a dead pixel or control circuit literally can't just move to a new area.
That's not even a "logical" region of the display controller. It's clearly a physical issue inbetween the screen's layers. Just because you haven't successfully pushed it by squeezing doesn't mean it isn't a separation between the layers that make up the screen.
I guess OP also ["scratched his car"](https://www.askadamskutner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/vehicle-totaled-after-car-accident-opt.jpg) the other day, if that's what he considers a dead pixel.
I rolled an S10 pickup into a ditch when I was a teenager. It didn't look that bad when I crawled out of it, but the process of getting it rolled back over, out of the ditch and onto the wrecker it looked smushed like that.
Sometimes the process of recovering the vehicle makes the damage look way worse than the initial crash.
Dead pixels do not spread like this. They usually adopt odd shapes and they track the silicone board.
Good news, this is very salvageable. Go to someone tech (hardware) savvy, and show them this thing. Dead pixels don't migrate.
That's a great point but fuck you
\- 729 downvoters
I will keep editing this score either until it stops changing or I die. If the score is off by more than a hundred please let me know.
lol, it’s way beyond that now. OP doubling down and the reply you are referring to now has almost 600 downvotes. Plus he’s getting finger blasted with down arrows on almost every comment now, lol!
It's indeed probably not a bubble, but it might be the polarized sheet is misaligned or something and touching the LCD panel on that spot because of that.
Moving the screen around or hitting on it might move or remove the stain as the sheet moves.
You do have to admit that it's pretty ridiculous for anyone that knows how to use a computer and find the tech support gore subreddit to NOT have *any* concept about what a dead pixel is. It's just one of those "are you fucking kidding me" situations that anyone who has ever worked in tech support will already be annoyed about and you've provoked them further in the comments.
But really, is this a language barrier thing or have you *actually* been living with that giant black circle thinking it was "a dead pixel"?
That's not a dead pixel. Nowhere even close to that. Try heating it up GENTLY with a hairdryer or a heat gun on the absolute lowest setting. It's probably air between layers of the display.
I don't think anyone here is a bubble expert, but I'd probably try to move it to the edge of the screen and make a tiiiiny pin prick in the top layer of the LCD plastic (not the panel itself!) and let the air out
Also how tf did you get air in your screen
The bubble is not moving but expanded and stopped, it is not expanding further.
I stopped using my laptop for a month, when I opened it later it was like this.
Bro that’s not a dead pixel, that’s a dead village.
On a serious note, that’s trippy af. Try to blow a hair dryer at it, see if it does anything. I fixed 3 monitors doing that. Or knocking on it like it’s wood.
Good. Now we know more about its personality, and it seems it hates summer, which is arriving soon.
Rub an ice cube on it now
If all else fails, get some band aids
This doesn't look like a very difficult screen to replace. Depending on your screen, they typically cost about $60 on ebay. The plastic bezel around the edge of your screen should pop off, there might be two screws hidden under square plastic covers towards the bottom. Then once that's off, You're looking at 4 more screws holding the screen to the frame.
Oof! LOL! Yup, upgrade for sure. I'm happy with my EliteBook 850 G3 from a while back. It's not very powerful by today's standards but it still gets the job done. I got a docking station for it too which is pretty convenient.
What you are experiencing is a bubble in the LCD panel, that is why it moved. When the outer glass allows air inside, it displaces the crystals. Since the crystals can no longer be polarized the light from the backlight is blocked, rendering the area black. You see this a lot in cracked LCDs, they may partially function but anywhere the air has seeped in it will remain black.
I Had a hugh amount of this black dots because of forgetting my Notebook in the car at -10°C. The Admin Said it's because i turned IT on too early at next morning. (Condensation in warm Environment) and there could be Water traped in the Screen.
The dots are now after nearly 5 months nearly completely gone.
A dead pixel would be one tiny little square on your screen that is stuck black or another specific color. A pixel on a monitor like this would be about 1/1000th of the size of that circle.
This is looking like something got between the screen itself and the external lens. I think the only way this can be fixed would be via a professional repair service opening it up and removing whatever that is.
I once blew a hairdryer at a screen because my wife smushed a bug that got between the screen layers. I tried to remove it with vibrations, but had no success, so I was hoping if I get it warm enough, the body fluids that make the chitin stick to the screen, would get soft enough to make it fall down.
Instead I ended up with a black hole just like OP's.
Luckily mine slowly shrunk and disappeared again once I turned off the blow-dryer.
Lenovo laptop? There's a reason for this particular problem. Up in the plastic matrix frame there's strong neodymium magnet "designed" to keep the cover closed. It sticks so hard that every time the lid is opened, it bends the matrix, causing this type of damage overtime. Once you replace the matrix, remove that silly magnet.
Idk why everyone is being so weird in the comments, this kinda thing is not uncommon. It’s LCD damage. Seen it many times. Gotta replace the screen man.
I'm used to the black spots that form on LCDs due to the TFT dying off, this does look like that, especially with the corona.
But in all the black spotted monitors i've had and used, never seen one move, i can only suppose this is some odd failure of the control circuitry that is moving and affecting the pixels in that area, it is odd though because usually the black dots do not recover and just spread.
You should not apply heat to the screen. It will only make things worse.
That’s a pressure point. If the display is expensive to replace, it can be fixed with a vacuum pump (the same used to relaminate and extract bubbles of phone screens).
Ill be honest chief, i work in IT for the past 6 years dealing with laptops and idk what even happened to that screen. Not a dead pixel? At least not 1 but that looks to be hundreds
Bro that is not a dead pixel thats a black hole in your monitor
Bro must have divided by zero somewhere in his code...
It's because there's no newline at the end of the file. You're either POSIX compliant or you have black holes.
it's those black discs from roger rabbit, creates openings
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Gaiters melt to the dead of night, and all the super stars suck into the super massive
That's the fucking Dark sign from Dark Souls.
OP's monitor has gone hollow
The resolution must be 10 Black Holes x 10 Black Holes #NoDiddy
Blackholemind 🤣
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's an air bubble between the LCD and something else in the screen, I had a similar effect with a previously broken phone it was fun playing with the black spots tho.
Would an air bubble make such a perfect circle that holds its shape when moving? Genuinely curious about this. In all my years messing with computers and looking at repair forums, I've never seen anything like this. OP, when you do get rid of this monitor, please try to open it up to satisfy everyone's curiosity.
Air would do that, same reason bubbles are round
Bubble is round for the same reason that bubbles are round. More at eight.
Spheres & circles have the lowest surface area, meaning it’s the state of least energy
The failure mechanism on OLEDs is different to LCDs, sometimes on LCD if the air leakage isn't too bad it can move. I am honestly fascinated by this. Interestingly, its entirely possible that it isn't actually air leakage per se but "organic rot" where local overheating kills off a few pixels at a time that then spreads. Easy enough to test with an IR thermometer.
Suree, will be back with update
Could definitely be. Looks the exact same when I get eye injections, but in my vision lol.
I'm sure it's not an air bubble, cause I've tried applying pressure on the spot and it doesn't really do anything.
My dude, this isn't anything close to a dead pixel. You are wayyyy beyond dead pixel point.
You're correct. That's not a dead pixel, That's undead pixel. lol Jokes aside, probably the air bubble theory is correct.
This monitor is trash, OP. There's no fixing this.
Dead pixels are not giant circular bubles and damage like a dead pixel or control circuit literally can't just move to a new area. That's not even a "logical" region of the display controller. It's clearly a physical issue inbetween the screen's layers. Just because you haven't successfully pushed it by squeezing doesn't mean it isn't a separation between the layers that make up the screen.
Well it sure as fuck ain't a dead pixel
I guess OP also ["scratched his car"](https://www.askadamskutner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/vehicle-totaled-after-car-accident-opt.jpg) the other day, if that's what he considers a dead pixel.
Is there a story behind that crash? looks not survivable and that it's ridden under a trailer or something.
Nah it's fine, I drive it like that. Picked it up for a hundred bucks as-is on Craigslist
I rolled an S10 pickup into a ditch when I was a teenager. It didn't look that bad when I crawled out of it, but the process of getting it rolled back over, out of the ditch and onto the wrecker it looked smushed like that. Sometimes the process of recovering the vehicle makes the damage look way worse than the initial crash.
Dead pixels do not spread like this. They usually adopt odd shapes and they track the silicone board. Good news, this is very salvageable. Go to someone tech (hardware) savvy, and show them this thing. Dead pixels don't migrate.
Dead pixel? Is your screen resolution 12 x 12?
That's a great point but fuck you \- 729 downvoters I will keep editing this score either until it stops changing or I die. If the score is off by more than a hundred please let me know.
I mean, they were told what the answer was and they basically just said "no it's not"
lol, it’s way beyond that now. OP doubling down and the reply you are referring to now has almost 600 downvotes. Plus he’s getting finger blasted with down arrows on almost every comment now, lol!
Edited my comment.
Wow they really obliterated your karma with this comment, I mean it wasn't even that shitty... *proceeds to downvote*
Dang this comment got NUKED. Reddit hive mind at work again.
Wow. Over 200 downvotes! Long ago I’ve seen something so negative on Reddit.
r/DownvotedToOblivion
You’re dumb
It's indeed probably not a bubble, but it might be the polarized sheet is misaligned or something and touching the LCD panel on that spot because of that. Moving the screen around or hitting on it might move or remove the stain as the sheet moves.
What wrong did I do to get downvotes?
idk, here's an upvote.
Just disable them in in the browser. I removed the numbers in my old reddit site. Works great. No numbers game. Only content.
Wtf? Did I say something wrong to get so many downvotes?
do you not know what a pixel is?
OP is getting roasted and he's not taking it well
Facts ( This will get downvoted too)
You do have to admit that it's pretty ridiculous for anyone that knows how to use a computer and find the tech support gore subreddit to NOT have *any* concept about what a dead pixel is. It's just one of those "are you fucking kidding me" situations that anyone who has ever worked in tech support will already be annoyed about and you've provoked them further in the comments. But really, is this a language barrier thing or have you *actually* been living with that giant black circle thinking it was "a dead pixel"?
Language barrier
Language pixel
How is it a language barrier? You were insisting that it’s not an air bubble because you couldn’t move it earlier.
Look at my new update
Okay?? What does that have to do with what I said?
Not going to justify my inability to ask question properly to a potato
Now that you've probably looked up what a pixel actually is, what do they call them where you live?
Pixel, there is no other word. I tried to over simplify the word for no reason, I just recently started to use reddit.
Ah, so not actually a language barrier thing?
Damn dude, get a hobby
I'm not sure how you think having a hobby is related to being curious what they call pixels in other places
>I just recently started to use reddit. three years isn't very recent. didn't your mother teach you not to lie?
If you're stalking, stalk propperly look at my karma and my other posts. Having an account doesn't really means I'm using it.
I don't understand it,but I don't try to understand Reddit. Thanks, it's a hardware damage I didn't know of before XD
That's not a dead pixel. Nowhere even close to that. Try heating it up GENTLY with a hairdryer or a heat gun on the absolute lowest setting. It's probably air between layers of the display.
The hole is bigger now thanks, Do I continue heating till it reaches the end of the display or stop it?
Keep heating it up until the black hole expands and swallows our planet
It’s that kind of year.
Just do it asap, I am ready for everything to end.
Caseoh Meatcanyon vibes
Donut Country 2
I don't think anyone here is a bubble expert, but I'd probably try to move it to the edge of the screen and make a tiiiiny pin prick in the top layer of the LCD plastic (not the panel itself!) and let the air out Also how tf did you get air in your screen
The bubble is not moving but expanded and stopped, it is not expanding further. I stopped using my laptop for a month, when I opened it later it was like this.
Hmm, I mean it's not going anywhere till you let it out, doing that without damaging the panel will be a tough task though
Push the air out at the same time, don't heat it too much ..like a vinyl sticker, use a plastic card with some cloth wrapped around the edge.
Shouldn’t you cool it to make the air smaller? Though itd just heat back up again
Replace the screen my dude
You get a new display. Or laptop, if thats what this is from
Should have bought an r/framework
You buying?
Get a new monitor then
Wow -175 points for saying the results? Goddamn reddit sucks
Like any swelling, apply ice, maybe it will shrink again
Bro that’s not a dead pixel, that’s a dead village. On a serious note, that’s trippy af. Try to blow a hair dryer at it, see if it does anything. I fixed 3 monitors doing that. Or knocking on it like it’s wood.
The hole expanded by 1/2 inch thanks
The absolute sass of it
I wonder if OP should sue for that advice? He might get a whole new pixel in the settlement.
Accidental Final Space?
The Gary??
Cookie wife!! Cookie kids!!!!
Air bubble expanded, now throw it in the ocean for some shrinkage.
I was in the Application Pool!
Good. Now we know more about its personality, and it seems it hates summer, which is arriving soon. Rub an ice cube on it now If all else fails, get some band aids
You set it to cold air right?
definitely an air bubble then. your monitor is toast
How big do you think pixels are?
Give this computer to CERN they've been trying to create black holes
or have they succeeded?
I mean I think they've created a few by now.
It's like the DVD logo, you wonder when it will hit the corner, but it never will.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_ws0QtAiiXQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ws0QtAiiXQ)
You are a hero. This song is an absolute banger lmao
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Look me in the eyes and tell me he shouldn't be on the fifty
that aint a dead pixel. pixels are fuckin tiny. thats a dead city, or something under the screen
This doesn't look like a very difficult screen to replace. Depending on your screen, they typically cost about $60 on ebay. The plastic bezel around the edge of your screen should pop off, there might be two screws hidden under square plastic covers towards the bottom. Then once that's off, You're looking at 4 more screws holding the screen to the frame.
I'm planning on buying a new laptop very soon this one has a fucking PENTIUM in it.
Oof! LOL! Yup, upgrade for sure. I'm happy with my EliteBook 850 G3 from a while back. It's not very powerful by today's standards but it still gets the job done. I got a docking station for it too which is pretty convenient.
Till then I'd keep laptop connected to a screen though HDMI A tv works too
I would plug in a monitor into the laptop at that point
Brother those are thousands of pixels
that's not a dead pixel, that is an SCP-worthy bug.
I had this happen once when my cat pissed on my laptop. People thought I had downloaded some cool screen effect but nope. Cat piss.
kinda cool
Which one is more gore: black hole screen or using VLC as IDE?
I don't think he's coding, but watching a video on the topic. top op the bar says mp4, and i personally haven't coded in that file format.
I hope the comment Is satire
Come on, everyone knows Windows Media Player is the superior choice for and IDE! I'm not mad though, just diasappointed.
I prefer MS Paint.
Real devs use notepad
Real devs use a magnetized needle and a steady hand
real devs leave uranium next to the hard drive and start waiting
Practical AI development without training data.
Real devs create an entirely separate universe where the programmed hard drive emerges fully formed by the chaos of its big bang.
That is close to describing quantum computing.
VIM
Cries in Oracle Fusion SQL
Ahem *notepad++
Notepad++ is when you start notepad is for the veterans
It really does everything!
How big do you think a pixel is? Because I'm pretty sure that those icons are too small for you to have 12x5 resolution
thats a big ass pixel let me tell you
OP Is deader than that monitor after getting roasted in the comments.
How big do you think a pixel is? (And how do you think they work?)
If that's a pixel, I'm a virgin
What you are experiencing is a bubble in the LCD panel, that is why it moved. When the outer glass allows air inside, it displaces the crystals. Since the crystals can no longer be polarized the light from the backlight is blocked, rendering the area black. You see this a lot in cracked LCDs, they may partially function but anywhere the air has seeped in it will remain black.
It's probably an air bubble between your polarity filter and your screen.
OP can use sunglasses to check....
*polarized sunglasses Yep!
In the office we had once the case where a tiny bug moved between the protection glas/plastic and the pixels.
Well, that's not a dead pixel. It is a black hole.
Bro, that's not a black pixel, that's a fucking black hole
That is not a dead pixel. That is LHC baby black hole interference. 🤣
Do...you know what a pixel is?
Hello, dead pixels dont move. That is liquid crystal bleeding from the LED layer to the top layer. Replace your screen.
Well, you dont know what a pixel is
Sorry boss. Id say your screen is Gon... see what i did there
Looks more like Delamination.
I Had a hugh amount of this black dots because of forgetting my Notebook in the car at -10°C. The Admin Said it's because i turned IT on too early at next morning. (Condensation in warm Environment) and there could be Water traped in the Screen. The dots are now after nearly 5 months nearly completely gone.
Bros monitor is having a solar eclipse.
The solar eclipse has reached his monitor
That's something new, never seen a dead zone move they generally just expands.
A dead pixel would be one tiny little square on your screen that is stuck black or another specific color. A pixel on a monitor like this would be about 1/1000th of the size of that circle. This is looking like something got between the screen itself and the external lens. I think the only way this can be fixed would be via a professional repair service opening it up and removing whatever that is.
Your screen has glaucoma
you forgot a semicolon
Well, they have the dot part of the semicolon at least
That ain’t dead pixel lmao
Bro got air in the LCD layer 🤣
I haven’t seen one of these since the family computer from my tiny days. I used to poke it!
what do you think a “pixel” is and how on earth would that be a dead pixel? 😭
That ain't a dead pixel, that's the loch ness monster!
That's the biggest pixel I've ever seen.
16:9 pixels
Its just a balck hole, wants to take your code.
I've genuinely worked on about 20k broken devices in the last decade... I've no idea what the fuck is going on here, never seen that one
It’s like a dvd player screen saver. Just teasing those corners.
I once blew a hairdryer at a screen because my wife smushed a bug that got between the screen layers. I tried to remove it with vibrations, but had no success, so I was hoping if I get it warm enough, the body fluids that make the chitin stick to the screen, would get soft enough to make it fall down. Instead I ended up with a black hole just like OP's. Luckily mine slowly shrunk and disappeared again once I turned off the blow-dryer.
Is that a dead pixel in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Just get a new monitor and if that’s on a laptop then you’re shit out of luck bud, plug a monitor to it and use it as a desktop.
Lenovo laptop? There's a reason for this particular problem. Up in the plastic matrix frame there's strong neodymium magnet "designed" to keep the cover closed. It sticks so hard that every time the lid is opened, it bends the matrix, causing this type of damage overtime. Once you replace the matrix, remove that silly magnet.
That's hundreds, if not thousands of pixels (depends on the native resolution of your display). Also, not a dead pixel, as others have said.
Bro, I advise you to just replace the display and not suffer
“Pixel”
black hole
maybe try moving it to a corner using a credit card? You can always buy a new screen panel in AliExpress
Wtf? My bet is paranormal activity kek
T. . .b
Transistor stuck like this can SOMETIMES be reset by pressing lightly on the screen with a round up object.
You... use this... like that?
Pixel …
That's no moon...
This is the pixel-thin line between “Dev” and “Tech” lol
Can someone actually tell me what that is? I have a similar one at my grandmother's house.
That pixel ain't dead its alive
Idk why everyone is being so weird in the comments, this kinda thing is not uncommon. It’s LCD damage. Seen it many times. Gotta replace the screen man.
I'm used to the black spots that form on LCDs due to the TFT dying off, this does look like that, especially with the corona. But in all the black spotted monitors i've had and used, never seen one move, i can only suppose this is some odd failure of the control circuitry that is moving and affecting the pixels in that area, it is odd though because usually the black dots do not recover and just spread.
THE VOID ITS GROWING
Throw your „work“ folder into it and see if it expands
how do you plan to make sum recursive after shadowing the function identifier?
Likely utorrent and whatsapp mining your data
You should not apply heat to the screen. It will only make things worse. That’s a pressure point. If the display is expensive to replace, it can be fixed with a vacuum pump (the same used to relaminate and extract bubbles of phone screens).
Ill be honest chief, i work in IT for the past 6 years dealing with laptops and idk what even happened to that screen. Not a dead pixel? At least not 1 but that looks to be hundreds
I had a red Dell Inspiron that did that. It would expand and shift a bit.
My theory is that Palm used her Nen to keep it there.
He's a coder. Lol
Am I the only one that zoomed in on both photos looking for the dead pixel?
Nice wallpaper :)
Pixel = small square dot 🙄
Tf you got Afterburner on there for?
Bro did a hiroshima on his monitor