There's a bug wandering round in my TFT!

Energize said:
Why do bugs get in lcd monitors and not crt ones?
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No holes I don't think.
It's all enclosed except the circuitry outside the light tube.
+ they probably get so hot, flies die before getting near it :p

MC_Bob
 
mc_bob said:
No holes I don't think.
It's all enclosed except the circuitry outside the light tube.
+ they probably get so hot, flies die before getting near it :p

MC_Bob
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I'd presume the screen in crts is the same glass the electron tube fires at, so the flys wouldn't last too long if they did get in, but it's probably a vacuum in there so they shouldn't be able to get it.
 
ChoÞÞer said:
lol, you know what we all mean... with a camera xD :p
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lol I'm thinking benjo was reffering to a long dead thread where someone claimed (for about 3 pages or so) that if you took a screengrab (as in printscreen) dead pixels would show up in it - and that he had done it with lots of his mates computers. It was a hilarious thread.

fini
 
fini said:
lol I'm thinking benjo was reffering to a long dead thread where someone claimed (for about 3 pages or so) that if you took a screengrab (as in printscreen) dead pixels would show up in it - and that he had done it with lots of his mates computers. It was a hilarious thread.

fini
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:D
 
mc_bob said:
No holes I don't think.
It's all enclosed except the circuitry outside the light tube.
+ they probably get so hot, flies die before getting near it :p

MC_Bob
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yeah they is.. @ the the top
 
Energize said:
Why do bugs get in lcd monitors and not crt ones?
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A CRT is a completely sealed unit, whereas a TFT will likely have some holes between the TFT matrix and the outer film. I'd be hazarding a guess that this was for thermal expansion reasons. Strangely, I've never heard from a single person that had this issue on a laptop (did tech support for Samsung for 18 months on their laptops). Could be down to brightness of laptop versus desktop monitors though?
 
fini said:
lol I'm thinking benjo was reffering to a long dead thread where someone claimed (for about 3 pages or so) that if you took a screengrab (as in printscreen) dead pixels would show up in it - and that he had done it with lots of his mates computers. It was a hilarious thread.

fini
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Hehe, that thread was great. The guy got so owned in the end.
 
I keep getting this dam annoying problem but what I find really strange is they are only attracted to one of my tft's :confused:

Sod's law has made it my best one tho, the dell :( my other screen is a medion cheapie and that never gets a single bug on it lol
 
I'm suprised that thread hasn't been archived yet - and I'm sure it went on for longer than that....victim to some modage?

fini
 
We need to train these flies to get in and fix the dead pixels. :D

I used to see this a lot in cheap flat screens for a company I was contracting for. Though never a laptop. If you take a screen out of a laptop, you will find they are well sealed. Wheras a normal flatscreen has all those nice holes to let the hot air out. This hot air probally has an "interesting" fragrance which attracts the flies. This could also explain why they don't end up in all monitors.

:cool: This obviously requires a in-depth survey of which monitor types attract the most wild life. (And this is not a cue for posting photos of dead rats in PC cases.... just the monitor..)
 
I had the same exact problem yesterday - one of those little thunder fly things got into the panel - seemed to crawl out on it's own which I was happy about. Turned the computer on today just now, and either it's the same one, or one of its friends come to annoy me all over again.

Hope it doesn't decide to die in the middle of the screen :\ Good to know I'm not alone :P It's on my 20.1 belinea if anyone's interested :) Video of it here http://media.putfile.com/bug-in-screen
 
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