the screen. The light that draws the picture gets out of whack if it gets a magnetic field around it for some reason. Try holding anything magnetic up to your screen to see it. When you degauss a magnet is waved back and forth inside your monitor and and slowly...

when this happen? can you tell me more detailed? does it have to do something with a curvature? THX anyway No, it has nothing to do with the curvation problem your haveing with your 955df. Have you ever put a strong magnet on the screen of your monitor or...

there... bad stuff i guess... anyone? :P doesn't have to do anything with it, the magnet is just for the screen's lid to close properly with the base, flickering screen is usualy a bad inverter or a bad cable or it could even be a bad screen. the magnet...

on, it only shows half of the Acer Logo screen, the half that is not next to the Dell. I cant get OS, I cant get BIOS, nothing. Than I noted the magnet on the Dell that is supposed to keep the laptop closed and it is very srtong(It can hold an heavy 10 cm...

be the culprit. When you get a magnet near your screen you will notice it! Basically you will SEE the magnetic field affecting the electrons responsible for creating the image. It will look like an oilspot on your screen. When you use a powerfull magnet you...

is purity error this can be caused by magnetic objects being close to the screen. The magnet could be a non shielded speaker, telephone etc or an electro magnet. Try moving items away until it dissapears, you may need to de-gauss to remove the discolouration....

It is magnetic. Magnetic fields and monitors do not get along. Monitors use an Electro magnetic field to deflect the electron beam across the screen. Thus monitors are very susceptible to external magnetic fields even those created by another monitor close...

will be faint to unnoticable. If you want to see what a stronger one does, take apart a hard drive. Remove the magnets (you will know them when you find them). Find a CRT you don't care about, put the magnet close the screen and move it around. Have fun....

Accucync 19" CRTSapphire 9600XT I doubt any damage was done to the monitor. If there was perminant damage you would see noticable discoloration on the screen, like if someone ran a magnet over the screen :) My precious... ...

more dead pixels. Or how to damage my LCD, not making it look self inflicted. Thanks for your help. Mediocer Expert user, Novice questions. :tongue: A64 3400+ 1mb Magnet near the screen? "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than have to...