Well, I'm a dumbass and got magnets too close to my monitor. It now has spots. Deguassing doesn't seem to be fixing anything. Any ideas? Will leaving it off overnight or anything help, or is it permanently screwed?
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Well, I'm a dumbass and got magnets too close to my monitor. It now has spots. Deguassing doesn't seem to be fixing anything. Any ideas? Will leaving it off overnight or anything help, or is it permanently screwed?
Sorry to bear bad tidings but if the magnets were powerful enough to permanently realign the screen to the point where degauss doesn't help, it's time to buy a new monitor.
Hmm... I seemed to have fixed it... If not completely, enough to make it not bother me... I used the magnets that did it in the first place, and waved them quickly around. Got rid of the majority of it... I feel dumb now...
Ah, rescrambling! The luck gods have indeed smiled upon you today. Congrats. One thing to watch for over the next day or so - the spots might reappear, they might not. Keep your eyes open for it and if they do, you know the cause.
Yeah, the spots are still there, I think I probably damaged the shadowmask, but the waving magnet thing got rid of most of it. so it's only really noticeable if you look for it.
I actually have the same problem, apparantly my monitor got too close to my speakers and the bottom corning is greenish (as oppose to the blue scrollbar on the AO website) and thanks to my handy dell monitor I don't have a degauss..so no fixing. But doesn't bother too much.
Hi The Grunt
As |3lack|ce says, if the magnets were powerful enough you may have screwed the screen. However you might be lucky. I would turn it off overnight and ground the screen.
Weird artefacts used to be a problem with some TVs and game boxes, and that solved the problem :)
Isn't there a device that you can use to degauss monitors and tv's?
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...
I've placed two 12" subs beside my monitor before and played the music loud for at least a few hours. When I tried using the monitor the left side was purple........I thought it was trashed too, but the next day it went away.
But you waving the magnet across it ......hmmmmmmmmm
I know you can magnetize and demagnetize metal objects (screwdrivers) by dragging an object in a given direction then dragging it in the opposite direction to demagnetized it.... vice versa
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.
That is usually the scanning guns, and requires a TV engineer. I would NOT recommend messing with a monitor youself. There are some very serious capacitors in there that can hold their charge a long time :zap:Quote:
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?
Generally not worth the cost unless it is a very flash monitor.
:)
That happened to me.Quote:
Originally posted here by AngelicKnight
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?
I then got glasses!
Steve