Burned Images!!!

[Red_LightRanger]

For some reason my stupid screen saver did not turn on today and that sucks for me because I got home and there was my backround image burned into my LCD monitor. Im so ****ed that im considering buying another from dell. Unfortunately the warranty on this one is long gone so I have to rule that out. Does anyone know what I can do so that I dont need to drop 300 bucks on a monitor. :bang head

[Knacko]

Try this:

http://www.jscreenfix.com/

Supposedly gives good results.

[benbaked]

My Xerox LCD used to burn in images after a few minutes or so, until it just died one day. Give it about a week and the burn-in might go away. :thup:

[Mpegger]

Burn-in on a LCD? http://www.jal2s.com/uploader/files/1/headscratch.gif

And in only a few minutes? :confused:

[bchur83]

LCDs dont really get image burn in. They can get image retention, but it is only temporary. Try setting to an all white screen for a while and see if it clears.

[Red_LightRanger]

ok your right... Its image retention. But you know what, this morning I cant see it anymore! Last night I ran a white screen flashing in the screen saver and I think its gone so thanks to you guys

[benbaked]

Burn-in on a LCD? http://www.jal2s.com/uploader/files/1/headscratch.gif

And in only a few minutes? :confused:

Yup, within a few minutes of sitting at the Windows desktop, then I go to play a game and I can see these partial ghosts of desktop icons still on the screen, but eventually it would go away. I've never seen an LCD do that, except this Xerox, which was a re-branded PTI that I'd bought a few years ago from Costco. Maybe it was something defective with the screen, because last year it died on me for no apparent reason. I went to turn it on and I could see the backlight come on, but no image. I opened it up to look for something that might've been disconnected but everything looked fine inside.

Just not a good LCD at all, it had made an annoyingly high pitched whine since day one whenever it was turned on.

[Red_LightRanger]

Well I know that dell has some good screens but since my screen saver didnt come on, it was running for at least 15hrs+.

[tri8g]

I don't even use a screensaver because it's pretty much a program that starts up. I run enough programs that get a little upset when a screensaver starts... I just have the monitor go to sleep, screensavers won't save watts.

It's "Power Options" in the screen saver properties page. Or you can go right to Control Panel.

[Bios24]

I've had 'image retention' on my 20" dell a couple of times. Both times I left the screen saver/ power options off on accident. Just turned the screen saver/power options back on and a couple of days later it was ok again.

[WeaponX6X]

Burning in an LCD is almost impossible...and it generally takes weeks, not minutes

[DanFraser]

Um, do you not have a power button on the monitor...?