Removing dust stuck under screen (mildly urgent)

Today I just noticed a piece of hair stuck UNDER my new (WUXGA now, yay!) LCD panel. I have it disassembled down to the panel assembly itself, but I have no idea how to get the strand of hair out...

It's a piece of short black hair (mine, I'm guessing), going in at a slant towards the middle of the screen, starting at the start button corner. It's really obtrusive, and it's really got to go. I'm working on my brother's desktop for now, but he's home in an hour, so it'd be nice if I could fix it soon.

Ideally, it'd be a sure fire fix. I really can't tell the hair is there until the laptop is turned on, on a non black screen (such as my GRUB bootloader). As a result, I really can't check that it's gone until I reassemble it, and that takes a while (thus necessitating a sure fire solution).

Thank you very much!

 

Wow what abnormal issue lol!! Maybe a pair of tweezers could pull it out?

 

Unfortunately, it's not stuck under an LCD covering of some sort. It's in the actual LCD panel. I have no idea how to get it out, and I'm not sure if I'd be comfortable disassembling the panel itself, though if I have to I will.

 

Maybe try a soft cloth and push it towards the edge until you can grab it with tweezers? If you have something like a flashlight try shining it on the screen to see if you can see it or not.

 

Use a can of compressed air and put the straw right up to it. Just be sure the can isn't upside down.

 

No offense, but that seems like he would be pushing the hair farther into the screen.... that doesn't sound right.

 

If you go from an angle, usually the pressure of the screen cover will make it come out.

 

Any luck?
I just noticed that a hair about 1/4" long somehow got under the film on my LCD. It is about an inch in from the left side, about half way up the screen


K-TRON

 

Nope, no luck. I killed the rest of my duster. Tried the gently pushing method (doesn't budge at all).

 

Here is my image,
I just noticed it today.
I cleaned my screen yesterday, and it wasn't there.
I haven't a clue how it could have gotten in there.



my camera made it look like pixels, its really a hair. I can see it with my own eyes

My Dell E1505 has complete care or whatever they call the highest warranty.
Does it cover the LCD?
I also have like 12 dead pixels

K-TRON

 

You can dissemble the LCD panel if you must. I have done it before with sucesse.

 

Vacuum. Get the wand and form a seal around it on the edge of the screen and suck the heck out of it. If it went in..... it can come out.

 

Something tells me that's not very safe?

 

id try to use some real compressed air as in an air compressor with an air tool and blow air into the panel from an opposite side/angle/corner, it will come out if there is a path for the air to reach it.

I just did this yesterday to clean my computer out, its about 20x stronger than canned compressed air and you have infinite amounts of it.

Good opportunity to say good job asus for making the w90 have one big solid piece of glass covering the whole lid on the inside it makes the screen so easy to clean and makes the chances of stuff getting there there probably impossible.

 

A bug decided to die in the middle of my screen, I tried to disassemble it but when I got to the bare bones it was actually under the glass, DOH!

Very annoying and frustrating

 

After a week or so of just opening and closing my laptop lid, the hair located in my screen shifted 5 inches down, and is now right in the middle of the start button at the bottom of the screen

I guess there is hope for others with loose particles in your screen.
Just open and close the lid a bunch of times.
It moved for me.
Now I only hope it shifts another quarter inch lower, so I dont see it at all

K-TRON

 

stow it away on the next rocket launch and subject it to many times the normal g force that will help, still the compressed air idea was probably the most simple, and effective.

If there is room enough for the hair to move, there is room enough for air to move, and since its narrow channel it just means even more force/pressure will be applied from the air thus forcing it out.

 

You make me want to buy an air compressor!

I had a hair and a lot of dust in my HP's screen and no one there seemed to have heard of that problem. Diagrams, notes, pictures... nothing seemed to get them to understand the dust was getting in the screen. So if you do send it in for warranty, good luck I really hope they understand.

 

Yeah, mine progressed to the lower corner of the start button. It's got another 1cm to go. All I did was I left my lid open all the time.

 

Very handy, first time I used it to clean my computer it went from a 3 hour aggravating affair to a 6 minute piece of cake.

It even cleaned inside of things like my PSU that I could not really clean before. Protip: hold fans in place with something so they dont spin, when they move they create a electrical current and with your equipment off or with a reverse current it could cause damage.

 

:x we are getting off topic here but any recommendations most of them seem to be at least $60 and a little overkill for cleaning.

 

Na its directly on topic and its an investment, like all tools are.

You pay for it once but never again and they usually save you money in the long run because you can DIY instead of paying somebody to do something.

In this case the easy to save money is no more buying compressed air cans.

 

I guess guarantee will only work if the hair is not from the owner. I wonder what a costumer support would say about this issue. "I have a hair in my LCD will you fix it?" lol...