Last night I cameback from a dinner and turned on my monitor I noticed there was a black spot on my sceen which was not there before. It started to move and I noticed it was an ant. I tried to move it but ended up killing it so now it's dead on my screen. It is very annoying to look at and my TV is out of warranty. I use my TV as my gaming monitor mainly so I am left with nothing right now. What should I do? I have an RX 470 gpu if you need to know. On a tight budget.
Ant died in TV screen.
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Solution
Options:
1. Take to a TV repair guy for full disassembly and corpse removal. Lots of $$
2. Wait until it desiccates, and maybe it will drop to the bottom.
3. Live with it
4. Buy a new monitor/TV
I had a similar a couple years ago. The corpse stayed there for over a year, until the monitor died of other reasons.
I named him Spot.
1. Take to a TV repair guy for full disassembly and corpse removal. Lots of $$
2. Wait until it desiccates, and maybe it will drop to the bottom.
3. Live with it
4. Buy a new monitor/TV
I had a similar a couple years ago. The corpse stayed there for over a year, until the monitor died of other reasons.
I named him Spot.
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Options:
1. Take to a TV repair guy for full disassembly and corpse removal. Lots of $$
2. Wait until it desiccates, and maybe it will drop to the bottom.
3. Live with it
4. Buy a new monitor/TV
I had a similar a couple years ago. The corpse stayed there for over a year, until the monitor died of other reasons.
I named him Spot.
1. Take to a TV repair guy for full disassembly and corpse removal. Lots of $$
2. Wait until it desiccates, and maybe it will drop to the bottom.
3. Live with it
4. Buy a new monitor/TV
I had a similar a couple years ago. The corpse stayed there for over a year, until the monitor died of other reasons.
I named him Spot.
I did call Samsung and my warranty was over. So I was screwed there. It annoys the hell out of me having to stare at it each time I use it and I took good care of my tv too. So would it be a bad idea to buy a monitor? I enjoy the large screen space I get with a 40 inch.
canadianvice
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Mate, he's said it like three times now: if the ant matters, you'll have to take remedial action.
Ask a repair guy how much it'll cost. Look at the cost of replacement. Make your choice. It's subjective how much or how efficient a certain course of action is going to be, so you need to do some soul-searching and decide for yourself what the best value option is.
Ask a repair guy how much it'll cost. Look at the cost of replacement. Make your choice. It's subjective how much or how efficient a certain course of action is going to be, so you need to do some soul-searching and decide for yourself what the best value option is.
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The following youtube video may be of benefit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y-i4nePHF8
It deals with dust between screen and backlight, but may be beneficial for other small objects. Object will need to be dry as USAFRet indicated, or it will stick, and smooshing it may make the problem worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y-i4nePHF8
It deals with dust between screen and backlight, but may be beneficial for other small objects. Object will need to be dry as USAFRet indicated, or it will stick, and smooshing it may make the problem worse.
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