What can i do - Dead Midge stuck in my screen

BoozerDawg · 9 Jun 2009 at 14:41

Yeah laugh all you want....

Basically, one of those annoying little bugger midges got stuck in my screen. It looks like a couple of dead pixels but i assure you its a midge (it used to move around, now it doesnt), and now i have no idea how to get rid of it. Has anyone ever had this happen to them ?

djohn · 9 Jun 2009 at 15:47

Same thing was mentioned in here about 12 to 18 months back, not sure what the outcome was but try doing a search for 'midge or insect stuck inside TFT panel' :cool:

Monkeynut · 9 Jun 2009 at 15:54

It's either buggered up the screen permanently, or can be tapped and knocked into falling to the bottom.

cerveau · 9 Jun 2009 at 19:08

The same thing happened to me last may, a thunderfly got into
the back of my dell 2405, i could see it on the screen crawling about
but it was on the inside!

I tried to coax it out by darkening the room and using a torch to try "lead"
it to the edge, but after a few hours it died right in the middle of the screen!

After 3 months the smudge had lengthened as though the bug corpse
had smeared down the screen surface, it was about an inch long by then
i thought the screen was knackered, anyway I just left it, i didnt fancy
taking the screen apart.

A year later, its mostly gone now, i guess the bug corpse dried up from the
heat of the screen and either dropped off or just dried up, theres just a little
dot left.

I guess if you leave it, eventually after a few months it will dry up as well

its still annoying, but its far better, a year on, then it was when it first happened.

You could try tapping the screen very lightly on the spot where it is, to try to shake
it loose, i read that somewhere, it never worked for me though, i guess the corpse
wasnt dry enough yet.

good luck

BoozerDawg · 9 Jun 2009 at 19:23

Yeah im hoping it will just disappear over time, tried the tapping trick, didnt work :/ Ah well thanks ppl, just gonna have to live with it for now

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slipd · 10 Jun 2009 at 00:28

Surely these bugs only get between the lcd panel and the back-light? I can't image they'd be finding their way into the panel itself

Wouldn't a regular tv repair man be able to do something with it; its got to be worth making enquires I would have thought?

I'm dreading this happening to my monitor... Our downstairs dell has a dead thunderfly stuck in it - we used to find it quite novel when it was alive, watching it work its way around the screen during a windows session