Buying a new screen should fix those spots.

Doornkaat wrote:

Buying a new screen should fix those spots.

As far as I know it cannot be fixed.

Well, off to the thrift store it went. They had another 1280x1024 monitor, but a 17" Dell E177fpc for $7 so I snagged that. After cleaning up the dust, looks good as new!

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Doornkaat wrote:

Buying a new screen should fix those spots.

What are you on about? 😉
Instead of presenting poor oeuvre with a problem by saying that there's no viable repair I suggested a quick and inexpensive solution. 😁
And he went for it! 😎

I did! Except... it wasn't exactly new 😜

You should try to dissasemble the screen. It could be that those marks are "newton rings" caused by humidity in the polarized layers between the backlight and the LCD matrix.

Newton’s rings, in optics, a series of concentric light- and dark-coloured bands observed between two pieces of glass when one is convex and rests on its convex side on another piece having a flat surface. Thus, a layer of air exists between them. The phenomenon is caused by the interference of light waves—i.e., the superimposing of trains of waves so that when their crests coincide, the light brightens; but when trough and crest meet, the light is destroyed. Light waves reflected from both top and bottom surfaces of the air film between the two pieces of glass interfere. The rings are named after the English 17th-century physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who first investigated them quantitatively.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/5jr … g_newton_rings/

I had a polariser shrink on my tv causing big horizontal lines, I saw a video how applying cold to it, like some ice wrapped in a towel can help unshrink it, however it did not work for me like it did for the guy on u tube, but its always worth a shot

Well, the annoying thing is this E177fpc's power button seems to be stuck. The plastic button is fine and clicks as intended, feels just like the others. The switch itself seems to be the problem... tore it open and confirmed that. A cheap fix but not a priority... also used it as an opportunity to clean the rear cover.