so yeah...basically, a small bug (a dust mite or something of incredibly small size) managed to get inside my lcd monitor and is now running around aimlessly. How the hell did it get in there? I press against the screen trying to crush the little fucker but all i get is the ripple effect of the lcd and it continues to live and run freely.....

i know that there's pretty much nothing i can do until he dies and becomes a "dead pixel" but just wanted to share my frustration

3/28/2008 8:12:47 AM

hahahaha....thread of the year.

3/28/2008 8:24:18 AM

screenshotsvideo or it didn't happen

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 8:29 AM. Reason : .]

3/28/2008 8:25:14 AM

making video now

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 8:32 AM. Reason : .]

3/28/2008 8:26:06 AM

after seeing above post with contact information and facebook marketing ploy, i call shenanigans

plus, any idiot can put a dot on a picture of his monitor and blur it out lol

3/28/2008 8:31:01 AM

argh..let me fix

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 8:44 AM. Reason : .]

3/28/2008 8:43:30 AM

Quote :

"We're sorry, this video is no longer available."

3/28/2008 8:45:24 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8VswOA-iOs

3/28/2008 8:52:36 AM

LOFL

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 8:55 AM. Reason : there are other vids of dudes with the same thing..haha]

3/28/2008 8:54:17 AM

ahahahaha ok that's enough proof!

thread of the year haha

3/28/2008 8:56:33 AM

centipedes?

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 9:02 AM. Reason : don't squish him the in middle of the screen like an idiot]

3/28/2008 9:00:43 AM

this is almost as good as the toothpaste thread

3/28/2008 9:07:01 AM

sometimes with BITS (bugs in the screen) you gotta press harder, they are hardy little buggers. if that doesn't work, you can try gently wiping the screen with a gasoline-soaked brillo pad

3/28/2008 9:12:56 AM

i can't find any youtube vids or google pics of what gasoline will do to an LCD i want to see someone's royally fucked up screen

3/28/2008 9:37:46 AM

hahahaha




this thread is full of win

3/28/2008 9:46:14 AM

lets have a contest....

who can think of the best name for my new desktop pet...

3/28/2008 10:41:38 AM

hahahaha....thread of the year.

3/28/2008 10:45:27 AM

that is hilarious

3/28/2008 10:47:09 AM

lulz

3/28/2008 11:01:38 AM

i wonder what kind of bug this is.



do you have dogs? maybe it's a flea.

3/28/2008 11:36:22 AM

THIS HAPPENED TO ME TO. I DID NOT MAKE A THREAD THOUGH.

3/28/2008 12:00:55 PM

i should make a thread about that grammar (^)

3/28/2008 12:05:51 PM

message_topic.aspx?topic=520396

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 12:46 PM. Reason : ONE IN THE SAME!]

3/28/2008 12:46:04 PM

+1

thread of the year for serious

3/28/2008 2:31:39 PM

I would say you were kidding, but you posted a video... huge win! Good luck with it.

3/28/2008 2:56:39 PM

Name him pixel

yes, I am assuming only a male bug would be ballzy enough to sacrifice himself to make a single dead pixel.

3/28/2008 3:17:46 PM

haha i like that name

3/28/2008 3:44:45 PM

put your monitor in the freezer for a night

3/28/2008 4:07:26 PM

This problem makes me think of that ants program for the iphone.

Which makes me wonder if you're SURE that it's a physical bug and not a virus you contracted or a program someone installed on your computer to fuck with you.

3/28/2008 8:27:15 PM

hairdryer

3/28/2008 8:42:12 PM

Great thread! Maybe you can turn it off and then it will try and crawl out the way it came in to get toward the light?

3/28/2008 8:49:57 PM

you should call the monitor lcd manufacturer and tell the story


record their response and post it here

3/29/2008 3:14:01 PM

do a print screen against a white screen so you know its real and not a virus.

if it was a virus, would it show up on the print screen?

3/29/2008 4:12:37 PM

back at base, bugs in the software

3/29/2008 4:20:07 PM

YOU NEED A NEW ANTIVIRUSBUG PROGRAM

3/30/2008 4:54:44 PM

3/30/2008 6:53:34 PM

Haha, that's awesome.

I like how you keep poking at it, it really sells the video.

3/30/2008 7:36:23 PM

UPDATE: Pixel ran away from home....i can't seem to find him on the screen anymore

3/30/2008 9:32:25 PM

awwwww

Maybe he got zapped otw out.

3/31/2008 9:17:05 AM

RIP Pixel
3/28/2008-3/30/2008

We barely knew ye

[Edited on March 31, 2008 at 9:21 AM. Reason : dust in the wind.... errr screen]

3/31/2008 9:20:56 AM

apparently it's not that uncommon



[Edited on March 31, 2008 at 9:34 AM. Reason : a]

3/31/2008 9:33:33 AM

I think something just got zapped in my monitor - it just flickered as if it was turning on again

maybe pixel crawled through the internet tubes to my monitor?

3/31/2008 10:35:52 AM

maybe my 17" display wasn't big enough for him anymore

or he couldn't take the abuse of me pokey him all the time

[Edited on March 31, 2008 at 10:46 AM. Reason : .]

3/31/2008 10:46:21 AM

i'm going to write a computer program to do this same thing, with the larger and larger resolutions of LCD displays, you can hardly distinguish a single pixel from something as small as a bug or piece of dust.

I think I have dead pixels on my screen all the time, but they turn out to be dirt particles instead

3/31/2008 11:51:53 AM

3/31/2008 12:56:00 PM

[Edited on March 31, 2008 at 1:05 PM. Reason : asdf]

3/31/2008 1:04:55 PM