Name: Anonymous 2006-03-13 5:02
I bought a refurbished Thinkpad T40 off eBay last week, and all is well... apart from a strange pixel problem that occurs randomly.
Sometimes one of the pixels will stay one colour. I ran a dead pixel checker (a program that fills the screen with red, green then blue so you can check for deads) but the pixel did not show up... but it remained the last colour of the test, after the test had finished.
Eventually, the stuckness went away... then two more appeared in random places, with the same symptoms. These disappeared after about half an hour too. I occasionally, about once every other day, get a random pixel that does this. It's not a huge problem, but it's strange.
I thought stuck pixels were semi-permanent, in that they don't move around and disappear for good at random. What's going on, /comp/?
Sometimes one of the pixels will stay one colour. I ran a dead pixel checker (a program that fills the screen with red, green then blue so you can check for deads) but the pixel did not show up... but it remained the last colour of the test, after the test had finished.
Eventually, the stuckness went away... then two more appeared in random places, with the same symptoms. These disappeared after about half an hour too. I occasionally, about once every other day, get a random pixel that does this. It's not a huge problem, but it's strange.
I thought stuck pixels were semi-permanent, in that they don't move around and disappear for good at random. What's going on, /comp/?