A bug stuck inside my Vaio X-Black screen :/

jonifen · 26 Feb 2011 at 01:15

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-C2M which has a 13.3" X-Black screen on it. A while back I had a small bug crawling around my screen following my mouse pointer. It was amusing at first, but then I squashed it (thinking it was just on my screen) but it was inside my screen (between the glossy part of the screen and the actual panel). Now I have a dead bug in my screen. Serves me right for being a meanie to bugs.

Now, if I were to open up the top part of the laptop, does the glossy part of the screen come away from the rest of the screen so I can get this dead bug out? Or am I stuck with a bug in the screen?

If I'm stuck with it, I have a dead pixel at the same place on the opposite side of the screen, so I guess it makes it symmetrical :rolleyes:

Thanks in advance

Liquid · 26 Feb 2011 at 04:05

I suspect that if the glossy part were attached/sealed to the screen, the bug would not have been able to get there in the first place. tbh you will have to take the screen apart anyway.

AMDPower · 26 Feb 2011 at 07:36

ask Sony for a quote on out of warranty repair. They provide good repair service but hopefully they would not charge you for a whole screen replacement.

jonifen · 26 Feb 2011 at 10:28

Liquid said:
I suspect that if the glossy part were attached/sealed to the screen, the bug would not have been able to get there in the first place. tbh you will have to take the screen apart anyway.

I thought the same thing. Until I watched a video to fix the white screen issue on a Samsung NC10 and the glossy part seems to be attached to that screen. I suppose like you say, I'll have to take the screen apart anyway, so I might just leap right in

AMDPower said:
ask Sony for a quote on out of warranty repair. They provide good repair service but hopefully they would not charge you for a whole screen replacement.

I thought of that, I've had the laptop about 3 or 4yrs now (it's still decent spec-wise) and I'm pretty skint at the min so was hoping for a free alternative until it bugs me enough to pay for it to be fixed

Thanks for your replies, I might just pop it open later today - see what I can do.

Edit: So I popped the frame off the screen and the glossy part appears to be part of the actual screen. There's nothing that looks like I can peel away or unscrew to remove it so I'll have to make do with the dead bug there for the time being. Gutted!