Hmmm now why would this happen...

34erd

34erd

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Ok something really weird happened to my monitor yesterday...

Soooo I was playing COD2, it was a really dark level, and I noticed there were these 2 veritical and horizontal lines on my monitor, very faint but they were there. I figured I could live with it, but it seemed to get darker. Today its still there, even stronger. Well, I saw what looked like letters, and i thought I was halucinating. I looked closer and realized it really was letters, and this is what they read: View Favorites Tools Help... Hmm seem farmiliar? Yeap, my IE bar had somehow gotten burned onto my monitor, and the lines were where the favorites and tool bars end. Ok, well, theres no doubt about it, I'm getting a new monitor. I've been needing to get off this 15 inch monstrosisity forever. I'm just wondering... why would this happen? LCDs dont burn do they? And I set my monitor to turn off after 10 minutes. Could the constant turing on and off while IE is open somehow burned it onto my monitor? This is really wierd, lol.
 
You could just have a crappy LCD monitor, what brand is it and how old?. I have a Hyundai 19" and nothing has burned in at all even when I have it just sitting there for several hours.
 
Its a dell 1504 FP. About 5 years old. Been running like a champ till yesterday, or maybe I just didnt notice it.
 
When I got my first LCD monitor (when a crappy no named Norcent 17" was $450), The manual for my LCD said that if the screen was left with the same image displayed for long periods of time, that burn in could occur, though the burn in will eventually go away once different images are displayed.
 
Something like this happened to my friends PSP, he made a simple program to make the whole screen flash randomly with different colors for 5 minutes. He then let the program run at least 5 times. It got rid of the burn in he had.
 
its perma etching if u leave something on ur monitor for to long it will be etched into ur monitor for a small amount of time thats y we haev screen savers they help prevent that
 
When I got my first LCD monitor (when a crappy no named Norcent 17" was $450), The manual for my LCD said that if the screen was left with the same image displayed for long periods of time, that burn in could occur, though the burn in will eventually go away once different images are displayed.
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Only thing is, its been running for 5 years and only shows up today...

Something like this happened to my friends PSP, he made a simple program to make the whole screen flash randomly with different colors for 5 minutes. He then let the program run at least 5 times. It got rid of the burn in he had.
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Thanks, I'll try something like that.

is it a plasma model
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No

its perma etching if u leave something on ur monitor for to long it will be etched into ur monitor for a small amount of time thats y we haev screen savers they help prevent that
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I set my monitor to turn off after 10 minutes, but maybe only the corner got burned because thats the part of the screen that stays the same.

I think it gets worse as the day goes on, as the monitor heats up more.
 
It's called image persistence. In most cases it's temporary, and can be fixed by leaving the monitor turned off for a prolonged period of time. Screen burn doesn't happen to LCDs.

Something like this happened to my friends PSP, he made a simple program to make the whole screen flash randomly with different colors for 5 minutes. He then let the program run at least 5 times. It got rid of the burn in he had.
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I believe that's designed to correct subpixel errors, not image persistence.
 
Ok, thanks. I guess the image still got persistant because I spend so much time with IE open and the corner never refreshes. I guess also because I'm on spring break right now and my monitor doesnt get turned off while I'm at school.
 
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