Monday, 18 June 2007

Dead pixel fix

Just realized today that in my precious Sony Vaio SZ3XP, there is a dead pixel. I never had a dead pixel in my monitors, nor I have seen one. I thought that there was no way back. I had heard loads of horror stories with monitors having dead pixels out of the box. And yes, warranty does not cover a few dead pixels.

However, thanks to the authors of this post, i managed to fix it. The method to follow is straight-forward:
  1. Get one of these pens from your drawer.
  2. Locate the dead pixel
  3. Carefully apply pressure on the pixel (you will see a white glow under the point of contrast)
  4. Continue this for 5-6 times till the pixel heals itself.
For the last time no, you cannot hold me responsible for damage you caused by using this method. Always a pleasure :)

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