advice for getting insect out of my screen

bigjimmyauk · 6 Aug 2015 at 18:00

it's actually crawling around inside my screen between the panel and the display so between the 2 layers, it's highly annoying looks like a little sand fly.

And no i don't want to take off and nuke it from orbit, or kill it with fire lol

bemaniac · 6 Aug 2015 at 18:11

I left the monitor in a pitch black room with a Maglite pointed at the back of it for a night. By morning the bug had found the light so to speak.

bigjimmyauk · 6 Aug 2015 at 18:13

bemaniac said:
I left the monitor in a pitch black room with a Maglite pointed at the back of it for a night. By morning the bug had found the light so to speak.

Ah good thinking, i'll give it a try if he decides to come out again, at present he dissapeared into the bezel somewhere. hopefully he touched something and gets zapped without taking out my monitor lol

RumbleBee · 7 Aug 2015 at 12:43

I had this problem in the past. Simply turning the monitor off for a few hours allowed the beast to wander off someplace. Maybe he's in the back. Anyway before you start prodding and trying to push leave it be for a bit with no display.

johnnystuff · 7 Aug 2015 at 14:10

Use this as screensaver

problem soved

KoM · 7 Aug 2015 at 19:15

Last time I had this problem, I just covered my screen with insecticide. Problem solved.

Minstadave · 7 Aug 2015 at 19:17

Thunderbugs, they are a problem every year. Just got to hope they don't die behind the glass. Turn the screen off and leave it off for a few hours.

bigjimmyauk · 7 Aug 2015 at 22:22

Just a update, it's gone now hopefully for good, turned the monitor off over night and left the desk lamp on. no sure if it's crawled out or died in the back . just glad it didn't die on the screen as that would have been a nightmare to sort out.

mushtafa · 8 Aug 2015 at 12:08

I had a little thing crawling behind my screen. It's now died and stayed there. No idea how to get it out. It's only small, but how annoying!

Minstadave · 8 Aug 2015 at 12:13

You can't get them out I don't think not without taking the glass and lcd apart.

D3K · 8 Aug 2015 at 12:19

mushtafa said:
I had a little thing crawling behind my screen. It's now died and stayed there. No idea how to get it out. It's only small, but how annoying!

Use a suction cup to gently pull the screen out a little, and tap the side of the monitor to shake it loose.

It worked for me, I posted about it here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18682088

mushtafa · 8 Aug 2015 at 12:25

Did you leave the monitor assembled D3K?

D3K · 8 Aug 2015 at 15:16

Yes. Be very gentle though. The screen should have a little flex.

Also worth checking if your screen has some kind of coating, the suction cup may damage it. I didn't check but there was no damage. It was an afterthought that I could have.