There is a green pixel screen on my display monitor, how do I resolve this problem? I've restarted it, and the hasn't corrected the problem.
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Way too little information. Details!
Tell us a Story - with a beginning, a middle and end. We need to understand everything that you know and have experienced.
If this issue is new, tell us what immediately preceded its onset - add software, upgrade or update? New equipment?
A screenshot MAY show us what your are seeing -- COMMAND + SHIFT > 3 will save the entire display image to your desktop on a Mac == the camera tool here or drag & drop in your reply.
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Take it in for diagnosis. No one here can "fix" the problem you describe.
Barry
It's commonly referred to as a stuck pixel. That particular spot on the monitor isn't responding to the data being sent to it by the Mac, or the monitor's own refreshing of the on-screen data.
Put a dry, clean cloth over your finger and gently rub over the stuck pixel. It may or may not help, but it's about all you can do.
I wanna see a screenshot!
If "green pixel screen" is NOT present in it, then its display hardware = take it in, indeed. If present (WHATEVER that description means), it "could" be hard/soft-ware rooted.
Remember this one? Re: Small white square appearing on screen - it turned out to be caused by a failure to properly end (and clean up) an Apple Support "takeover" of the OP's Mac.
Lotsa scripts and/or software can "overlay" the entire display with a "screen MIDground"
- from Exposé to the Image Camera here
👿's advocate = ÇÇÇ
Fine for a 'pixel' (maybe not, see Re: Small white square appearing on screen ) but a "Screen" ON a display?
curious to see if OP "calls back"
Fine for a 'pixel'
Yup. I'm taking it literally and see if that is indeed what the OP means.
Unfortunately, a screen shot may not prove anything. Screen grabs are directly pulled from the display buffer, not what the monitor is actually showing. So if it is a stuck pixel, a screen grab will simply show what data that pixel area is being sent to display, not what it's doing.
Kurt Lang wrote:
Fine for a 'pixel'Yup. I'm taking it literally and see if that is indeed what the OP means.
Unfortunately, a screen shot may not prove anything. Screen grabs are directly pulled from the display buffer, not what the monitor is actually showing. So if it is a stuck pixel, a screen grab will simply show what data that pixel area is being sent to display, not what it's doing.
I believe that is the point that CCC is trying to make. If the screenshot does not show the problem, then the issue is with the display itself. The correct information is being sent. If it was something else, it should reflect in the screenshot. I've used that to diagnose problems with iPhone displays as well.
[chuckle, can't help it - your avatar 'kills' me!]
literally... out of context !! " ... a green pixel screen on my display monitor. ..." - heh heh
On the Contrary, the "Absence" of anything visible in a screenshot proves that it IS the display itself or connection thereto. (My Pismo's display is way past screwy, but screenshots are fine as are external displays)
*always nice to have brother stick up for ya in the schoolyard!
Notice the SCREEN effect of the JiveWare MIDground (new word?) invocation of the "Helpie" LIST
On the Contrary, the "Absence" of anything visible in a screenshot proves that it IS the display itself or connection thereto.
Heh! 😀 Not contrary, that's exactly what I meant by:
a screen grab will simply show what data that pixel area is being sent to display,
i.e. the green pixel is absent from the screen grab.
And hey! What do you mean by my avatar "kills" you?! What avatar?
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse... 😉
While I'm on a quotation spree, I am "... quivering with antici . . . . . pation " to actually see a screengrab
I think what tickles me was I mistook your 'self-portrait' for an 'avatar'... maybe its because the 'selfie' was take in a mirror?
*EDITadded -
staring at the above images a while IS Disturbing!
staring at the above images a while IS Disturbing!
Not as disturbing as from the back.
excuse me folks, I need to go find that hemlock I keep for just such an occasion
Here is Apple's official document on it:
About LCD display pixel anomalies for Apple products released in 2010 and later - Apple Support
or, for products released before 2010:
About LCD display pixel anomalies for Apple products released before 2010 - Apple Support
As Barry said: take it to your nearest Genius Bar.
With all due respect to you, and Barry (who actually didn't say where "in" was), and anyone who thinks they can actually read between the "words" of this description and recommend anything but ask for more data:
Makaylalalala said:
There is a green pixel screen on my display monitor
Barry Hemphill said:
Take it in for diagnosis. No one here can "fix" the problem you describe.
Barry
a "green pixel screen on my display monitor" does not an anomalous pixel make, IMHO. Screenshot will prove up whatever the case may be - visit to " in " may not be necessary —
(especially since both https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202025 AND https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201613 state in the last sentence of the last ¶ that if " in " is Apple or an AASP " ... There may be a charge for the evaluation. " )
There is a green pixel screen on my display monitor, how do I fix this problem? I have restarted it, and the problem isn't resolved.
