If it is one stuck pixel. I have fixed mine this way. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Take the screen cleaning cloth (the one that came with your powerbook), and with very gentle pressue, rub the area where the dead pixel is in small circles, like you are massaging it. It took me a few days of doing this, but I have no dead pixels anymore. Again, try at your own risk. Has worked for me and worked for several of my friends, only not working for one of about 16 people. Those have been pretty good odds.
They are. If the pixel is dead, there is no color coming from it, i.e., a black dot on screen. The pixel doesn't work at all. A stuck pixel is one that can't change color appropriately, but is getting electricity into it. They show as either red, green, blue or a combo of them (white means all three are stuck) constantly. Stuck pixels can potentially be fixed by careful massaging of the liquid screen (careful not to damage it or other pixels in the process). A dead pixel can't really be brought back to life, not by normal user means anyway.
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Take the screen cleaning cloth (the one that came with your powerbook), and with very gentle pressue, rub the area where the dead pixel is in small circles, like you are massaging it. It took me a few days of doing this, but I have no dead pixels anymore. Again, try at your own risk. Has worked for me and worked for several of my friends, only not working for one of about 16 people. Those have been pretty good odds.
tommy
Originally posted by tommy_thompson
If it is one stuck pixel...rub the area where the dead pixel is...
A question on terminology: is a stuck pixel the same as a dead pixel? I thought they were different entities.