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OK, my ten year old son made me a birthday card on a big sheet of construction paper with black permanent magic marker (Sharpie) and leaned the "card" up against my one-month old 2405FPW. It wasn't dry yet.

Thankfully, there as only one spot left on the monitor. Dead center about the size of a grain of rice. You can imagine my shock and surprise. I took some 90% alcohol and a Q-Tip to it. It came right off (thank God).

Thought I would post here with this fix in case it ever happens to anyone else. I know I was sweating bullets thinking that I had an eyesore for the next 6 years and would see it everytime I used this monitor. The alcohol not only took it off, but it didn't hurt the LCD finish either. After I got the marker out I used some iKlear Apple Polish purchased at The Apple Store and it is good as new!

-scaryogre

What a relieve. :D
It would be like if you had a group of 15 dead pixels in the middle of your screen.
The horror. :shock:

glad you got it all out...

could you quote what you said when you discovered the blotch?? :twisted:

glad you got it all out...could you quote what you said when you discovered the blotch?? :twisted:

It was along the lines of WTF is THAT!!?!?! I also vaguely remember feeling my neck for a pulse.

Yeah, I've seen things like that before... glad to hear you got it sorted, anyway... ;)

LOL... oh man, that must have been NASTY. I'm glad you got it clean though.


The worst damage you can do to an LCD is with a compass. :cry: Nothing recovers from a hole.

The worst damage you can do to an LCD is with a compass. :cry: Nothing recovers from a hole.

How on earth did you do that? :shock:

Indeed, did you throw it against your screen or something? :?

A wiffle ball won't do them much good either. My 3 year old and I were having a little batting practice in the house. Now my 17 in LG has a crack in the screen from top to bottom. Oops Pooldoc

How on earth did you do that? :shock:

Not me. It was student vandalism. :evil: