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Yep. A degauss ring.Quote:
Originally posted here by heinouskyle
Isn't there a device that you can use to degauss monitors and tv's?
The grunt: Have a talk with the guys at your local TV repair shop. They might have a degauss ring. That should take care of the remaining spots...
Thought it was a deguass wand, prob the same thing.Quote:
Isn't there a device that you can use to degauss monitors and tv's?
The kids at the school I used to work at screwed up the monitors a lot. Pretty patterns on the screen and all that.
We used to sort it using another magnet and starting from the centre of the screen spiral the magnet out to the edges.
I've never seen a monitor perminantly jiggered by a magnet but I don't know how powerful a magnet you were using.
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I have had some limited success by doing this.Quote:
Originally posted here by heinouskyle
Isn't there a device that you can use to degauss monitors and tv's?
Using one of the original magnets hold it in front of and close to the monitor (2") and begin making slow tight circling movements with it.
Very slowly increase the diameter of the circling movements while slowly moving the magnet away from the screen.
Remember, you mileage may vary!
Sorry Aspman, missed your post.
Steve
This reminds me of when I was in 4th grade (yes..my memory goes that far back lol) the teacher was teaching us about magnets, and I wanted to see if the magnet would stick the monitor lol was that a bad idea or what lol, there was a large dot on the screen for weeks till they replaced the monitor (it was those very old monitors that don't have degauss features.. [win95 was the OS back then])Quote:
Originally posted here by The Duck
Heh, reminds me back in my immature days... I used to run around the library with a magnet and wave it around the monitors in the library lol... They never found out it was me either... this must have been 3 years ago...
Out of curiousity...how powerful does a magnet have to be to mess up a monitor?
Would a fridge magnet do it?
How about the magnetic strip of a bank/credit card?
Eg ;)
Well, googling for the answer of Eg's question I came across this: http://woil.ws/fixmonitor/ maybe that'll help you grunt. :)
EDIT: After reading a few comments on that site and watching the sample video, I'm convinced that it will work :p :D I'm surprised nobody googled it..
Great site Raion...but...I read most of it and still haven't found the answer to my question :p
Eg ;)
A somewhat related question --
What about when your screen starts to become blurry? Is that a sign that the inevitable end of your monitor is near, or is there a way to clear it up?
Fridge magnet wouldn't do too much damage unless it was held against the screen for a long time. Waving magnets or the drill thing would probably sort that easily enough. Don't think credit card strips would do anything, the mag field from the screen would probably damage the strip on the card.
Fuzzy screens have always ended with replacements in my experience. Couldn't tell you what is going wrong but I've never fixed one.
Heh, it was magnet from a hard drive... that's why the deguass feature on my monitor was ineffective. The hard drive magnets were more powerful than the ones in my monitor. it's pretty much cleared up now though.