Burn-in on a LCD?

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I went out today for a couple of hours and I left my Dell 2405FPW on, showing my Windows desktop. Came back, fired up battlefield 2 and noticed something rather odd about the login screen... I could see my desktop icons through it.

Turns out that the screen saver didnt kick-in like it normally does (thanks, Windows) and I have my desktop 'burned-in' like how CRT's go if you leave them on a static image too long.

My camera doesnt pick it up very well but heres what it looks like - I've removed the icons except from the Recycle Bin -
dell2405-burn-in.jpg


The weird thing is, the left-most two inches of the screen are almost completely unaffected, then as you go to the right, theres a noticable 'dirty' band, then its more noticable. Its much clearer in reality than my camera shows, you can easily read the icons' labels.

Anyone know if this effect is reversable, or am I stuck with it forever now?

A friend suggested that I shake the monitor, which I've done as well as I can shake a 24" screen, ie not very well. I've pushed/rubbed the screen with a cloth, to no effect.
 
Try watching a film a bit to 'loosen' the pixels. Just a guess, but it might work.

EDIT

Just thought of something you could do.

For the PSP there is a stuck pixel 'fixer'. It flashes the colours red, white, blue and black on the screen.

Set your media player on loop and run it full screen for a while, it might release it.

Download: www.pc-fanatics.com/PixelFlash.zip
 
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seeing that just made me set a screen saver, don't want my £728 screen doing that
 
This happens a LOT on my several year old 18.1" Samsung TFT. Has to be on for a good 5 hours first though. Then I get it all across the top left stretching down the left hand side and along the bottom of the screen. Playing CS usually sorts it out a bit.

Only way to fully get rid of it is to turn my monitor off. So everytime I leave the PC for a while I make sure just to switch it off instead of leaving it to go to standby. Thinking it might be a heat related issue aswell.
 
bilston said:
This happens a LOT on my several year old 18.1" Samsung TFT. Has to be on for a good 5 hours first though. Then I get it all across the top left stretching down the left hand side and along the bottom of the screen. Playing CS usually sorts it out a bit.

Only way to fully get rid of it is to turn my monitor off. So everytime I leave the PC for a while I make sure just to switch it off instead of leaving it to go to standby. Thinking it might be a heat related issue aswell.
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Happened on two Samsung 181T's I had, except in both cases it was permanent. Samsung refused to take them back as well. :(
 
BurningHorizons said:
Happened on two Samsung 181T's I had, except in both cases it was permanent. Samsung refused to take them back as well. :(
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Mines a 181T aswell. I dont know how much warranty is on it but Ive had it a good few years, not sure how many. Just old age and tech I guess. It doesnt bother that much at all to be honest. Trying to save up for a 2407wfp at the moment :D

Edit: What wallpaper is that on your monitor that I found on your website? Send it my way! :D
 
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Update:

I ran Craig321's idea of the www.pc-fanatics.com/PixelFlash.zip movie for a couple of hours last night, no noticable change. So I decided to call it a day and went to bed, turned the monitor off. Just turned it on now and its almost completely gone... I can still see the very very faint vertical band from before, but cant see the icons at all.

A friend just told me that his samsung did this once, and he left a white screen showing for several hours, which did the trick for him.
 
bilston said:
Mines a 181T aswell. I dont know how much warranty is on it but Ive had it a good few years, not sure how many. Just old age and tech I guess. It doesnt bother that much at all to be honest. Trying to save up for a 2407wfp at the moment :D

Edit: What wallpaper is that on your monitor that I found on your website? Send it my way! :D
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Wallpaper sent.
Get the 2407, you won't regret it.
I purchased a 2405 about a year ago. Best thing I ever bought for the PC. :)
 
elite said:
seeing that just made me set a screen saver, don't want my £728 screen doing that
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Don't bother with a screensaver - you're better off just setting your monitor to turn off after 15 minutes or so. Saves power too, whereas a screensaver is likely to use more power (seeing as they're often get the CPU working).
 
Aye agree with the power save suggestion.

Unless you want pretty stuff flying around your screen I think you're better off setting a 10-15 minute inactivity time. Save yourself some power, your screen isn't being used so no danger of burn in (what if your pc locked while running the Screensaver).

For about the last 5 years I've used a 10 minute timer for the screen, never experienced burn in on any LCD's.
 
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