Hair in LED.

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ThinkPad · #1 Post by **ThinkPad** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:07 pm

I seem to have this small hair INSIDE the screen for some odd reason. I have no idea how this got in there, but needless to say its annoying. At first I thought it was on the outside, but I rubbed it enough and its definately inside.

What are my options to removing this? Should I try spraying compressed air through one side of the screen or would I have to open it up?

Here are a couple pictures:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b386/ ... C_0151.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b386/ ... C_0152.jpg

ThinkPad · #2 Post by **ThinkPad** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:09 pm

The mouse actually scrolls over it.

#3 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:14 pm

Just how hairy can things get?

Have you tried looking at it through a magnifying glass or loop? Perhaps it is a scratch in the display. I don't see how a hair could get inside the middle of the display, if the display hadn't been opened up.

#4 Post by **underclocker** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:00 pm

I've heard of IBM's dead pixel policy - about 10 dead before they replace the LCD, but I've never heard of their "hair policy"! One should be enough for a free swap!

Good luck. Gross.

gunston · #5 Post by **gunston** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:54 pm

replace it with SXGA+ screen.

ThinkPad · #6 Post by **ThinkPad** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:28 pm

gunston wrote:replace it with SXGA+ screen.

The screen is 14.1 SXGA.

#7 Post by **Kyocera** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:32 pm

That sure does look like a hair, did it just appear recently or had you noticed it since you have had the machine. Call IBM service if you are under warranty.

ThinkPad · #8 Post by **ThinkPad** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:35 pm

Just noticed it recently. I have no idea how it got there, but its in there. Its rather weird as the mouse scrolls over it.

cj3209 · #9 Post by **cj3209** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:10 pm

Believe it or not, it happened to me. I called IBM and they replaced the LCD. Just make sure you tell them that it's annoying and they you can't work on the notebook because of it. My rep. initially didn't want to help me but eventually he acquiesced with a little prodding.

#10 Post by **draco2527** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:46 am

Stuff will make into the layers of the display!

I have replaced a handfull of screens that had hair, food (crums) and who knows what stuck inside/behind the lcd.

You can dissasemble the lcd housing (metal cage) and dust-off(air) the layers; the only problem is that no matter how clean you think the room is, more stuff will show up by the time you are done putting everything back together......

My recommendation, call IBM/Lenovo and try to get it replaced!

davidspalding · #11 Post by **davidspalding** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:52 am

cj3209 wrote:Believe it or not, it happened to me. ... My rep. initially didn't want to help me but eventually he acquiesced with a little prodding.

That's amazing.

kam_ · #12 Post by **kam_** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:57 am

put it in a modern art museum

thinkpad4ever · #13 Post by **thinkpad4ever** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:50 pm

yeah, someday that thinkpad will be a collectible item. i'm sure that hair was
from china.

JHEM · #14 Post by **JHEM** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:12 pm

thinkpad4ever wrote:yeah, someday that thinkpad will be a collectible item. i'm sure that hair was from china.

Most of the displays are made in Korea!

Put a sock in the China nonsense, some of my best friends are from China.

Kung pao chicken, shrimp with lobster sauce, anything in black bean sauce, etc., etc.

Regards,

James

Roy_W · #15 Post by **Roy_W** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:10 pm

erasmus wrote:That is definitely a hair!
I had a similar "hair in screen" case some years ago. Simply - one day I opened up my TP and there it was. In my case - only half an inch from the bottom - so it wasn't a big deal. Then, one day ten months later - it was gone! And I haven't seen it since...

That was quite obviously a case of

"Hair today, gone tommorrow".

#16 Post by **Kyocera** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:18 pm

You had to go there didn't you

ThinkPad · #17 Post by **ThinkPad** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:14 pm

Ill check if the warranty is still valid and send it in.

johnchan · #18 Post by **johnchan** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:20 am

JHEM wrote:
thinkpad4ever wrote:yeah, someday that thinkpad will be a collectible item. i'm sure that hair was from china.
Most of the displays are made in Korea!

Put a sock in the China nonsense, some of my best friends are from China.

Kung pao chicken, shrimp with lobster sauce, anything in black bean sauce, etc., etc.

Regards,

James

Are you just racist or think you are somehow funny?

davidspalding · #19 Post by **davidspalding** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:54 am

I think we need to drop the nationality side remarks. Now. Lest admin (James, Bill, Nonny) just lock the thread. I've seen it happen.

JHEM · #20 Post by **JHEM** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:41 pm

johnchan wrote:Are you just racist or think you are somehow funny?

I was attempting to make light of the previous sentence to knock off the China bashing as it's unwelcome in the Forum. If you didn't get the "sock" reference, it harks back to the days of windup victrolas when it was common to urge an inconsiderate neighbor to put a sock in the megaphone of the victrola to mute it at 3AM.

Sorry if I didn't make my point.

Want me to rephrase it? OK, some of my best friends are Chinese or of Chinese descent. Among which are many members here in the Forum, two business partners, a niece by marriage, several neighbors, etc., etc.

I spent more than 45 years traveling the world, first in the merchant marine and then as an environmental consultant and have been just about everywhere on the globe at one time or another. There are very few places I wouldn't return to today, and even fewer places I didn't feel welcome at the time.

Ethnic bashing OF ANY SORT is unwelcome in the Forum and I have a particularly short fuse when it comes to it. I'll usually attempt a semi-jocular admonishment as a first response, but I'm not above banning someone who doesn't take the hint.

Is that clear now?

Regards,

James

ThinkPad · #21 Post by **ThinkPad** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:54 pm

ANYWAYS back to my hairy issue.

Could I somehow use compressed air from an angle to get it shift it a little. I dont want to necessarily remove it; just want to get it out of sight.

#22 Post by **draco2527** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:16 pm

Thinkpad wrote:ANYWAYS back to my hairy issue.

Could I somehow use compressed air from an angle to get it shift it a little. I dont want to necessarily remove it; just want to get it out of sight.

From my post:

Stuff will make into the layers of the display!

I have replaced a handfull of screens that had hair, food (crums) and who knows what stuck inside/behind the lcd.

You can dissasemble the lcd housing (metal cage) and dust-off(air) the layers; the only problem is that no matter how clean you think the room is, more stuff will show up by the time you are done putting everything back together......

My recommendation, call IBM/Lenovo and try to get it replaced!

I have tried pulling the lcd and "blowing air" into the layers to try to move/remove the problem; it seems to make it worse! The hair will end up were you least wanted it to go.......

You can attempt it, but again; I would call and try to get it replaced.......

#23 Post by **Kyocera** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:20 pm

James was trying to make light of the overall climate of political correctness that seems to be creeping in around here, people need to lighten up a little and reread posts to put them in context before blurting out a response when the ego gets somehow damaged.

Does not require a response. Locked.

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