How to Repair LCD Damage

A LCD monitor relies on thousands of pixels in order to form an image. A "stuck" pixel can suddenly appear on the screen as a white or black dot that refuses to go away. To fix the monitor, return the pixel to normal using a free pixel repair program. There are a number of these programs that run on the PC--all working in a similar fashion to restore the pixel to its normal working state. No electronic or computer programming skills are required in order to fix the pixel.

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  Download a pixel repair program to the desktop, for example, the free UDPixel program or the free PixelRepairer program (see Resources). Double-click the file once downloaded to start the installation process. Follow the command menus to finish the installation. Restart the PC.

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  Launch the pixel repair program by selecting it from the "Start," "All Applications."

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  Click on the "Repair" or "Start" button on the program's main screen. Click on the "Add area" or "Area section" button to bring up a window. Click once on the window with the mouse. Drag the window on top of the pixel that needs to be repaired.

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  Click once on the lower right corner of the window with the mouse. Drag the mouse toward the upper left corner to minimize the size of the window. Stop the procedure when the window is just a bit larger than the pixel that is now in its center.

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  Click on the program's main screen to make it active. Select "60Hz" from the "Monitor frequency" drop-down menu.

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  Click the "Start" or "Go" button on the program's main screen. After an hour, click once on the window over the stuck pixel. Inspect the LCD screen to see if the pixel is no longer stuck. Return the window over the pixel if it is still stuck and repeat the procedure; otherwise, quit the program.