Carfax
06-15-2009, 07:59 AM
If you have backlight bleeding issues on your monitor, you might want to try this solution out:
I got a new Acer AL2616WD (manufacture date 02/2007), and it had a very noticeable area of backlight bleed at the top of the screen, roughly 1/3rd of the way in from the left. Watching a movie, it was quite distracting. But I fixed it, and now it's virtually unnoticeable.
As everyone probably knows, the LCD panel is flexible, and quite sensitive to pressure. If you touch your finger to the screen lightly, you'll see the colours distort. For this reason, it has to be very "delicately" mounted in its frame.
If you press lightly along the edges of this Acer monitor, you'll see backlight shine around, more in some areas where there's no support behind, and less where I presume the screen is clamped/pressed into place against the frame. You only need the tiniest warp in how it's mounted, and backlight can shine around. I'm sure that shipping could very well cause such a tiny warp, just due to shifting.
The area of backlight bleed on my monitor was in a place where the panel was more flexible (i.e. a point where it wasn't fixed to the frame), so I tried tapping my finger lightly just to the left and to the right of the area, to see if it wouldn't adjust itself in its frame. After all,
Lo and behold, the tapping worked. I only had to tap very lightly, starting close to the bleed area and ending about 10 cm away, and now the backlight bleed is virtually non-existant.
So, before you send your monitor back due to a "manufacturing default", when, in fact, it may only have shifted slightly during shipping, you might want to just try this.
I hope this helps!
Scott.
Source (http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&msg_id=1319947&threadid=1319947&forum=102&product_id=20947&msgcount=4&overclockid=0)
I noticed very slight backlight bleeding in the upper left hand corner of my monitor, so I tried this method with some microfibre cloth and voila, no more backlight bleeding! :up:
It may not work for everyone, but there's no harm in trying..
I got a new Acer AL2616WD (manufacture date 02/2007), and it had a very noticeable area of backlight bleed at the top of the screen, roughly 1/3rd of the way in from the left. Watching a movie, it was quite distracting. But I fixed it, and now it's virtually unnoticeable.
As everyone probably knows, the LCD panel is flexible, and quite sensitive to pressure. If you touch your finger to the screen lightly, you'll see the colours distort. For this reason, it has to be very "delicately" mounted in its frame.
If you press lightly along the edges of this Acer monitor, you'll see backlight shine around, more in some areas where there's no support behind, and less where I presume the screen is clamped/pressed into place against the frame. You only need the tiniest warp in how it's mounted, and backlight can shine around. I'm sure that shipping could very well cause such a tiny warp, just due to shifting.
The area of backlight bleed on my monitor was in a place where the panel was more flexible (i.e. a point where it wasn't fixed to the frame), so I tried tapping my finger lightly just to the left and to the right of the area, to see if it wouldn't adjust itself in its frame. After all,
Lo and behold, the tapping worked. I only had to tap very lightly, starting close to the bleed area and ending about 10 cm away, and now the backlight bleed is virtually non-existant.
So, before you send your monitor back due to a "manufacturing default", when, in fact, it may only have shifted slightly during shipping, you might want to just try this.
I hope this helps!
Scott.
Source (http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&msg_id=1319947&threadid=1319947&forum=102&product_id=20947&msgcount=4&overclockid=0)
I noticed very slight backlight bleeding in the upper left hand corner of my monitor, so I tried this method with some microfibre cloth and voila, no more backlight bleeding! :up:
It may not work for everyone, but there's no harm in trying..