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Hi,
Last night I switched off my laptop. I'd been running a second screen off it and so the main laptop screen simply had the desktop background showing, nothing too taxing.
Today, I switched on the laptop (no secondary screen) and a line of what I presumed to be stuck pixels had appeared. It was a thin (1mm wide) vertical line, about 1cm long.
I started to run the Jscreen fixer and that hasn't helped. So I tried the pressure method and it seems that in fact, it is not stuck pixels, but the LCD liquid? After my various poking and proddings, it's now a small splodge.
Damn annoying, while I suppose I could ignore it, is there anything I could try? The laptop is still within its warranty, would Dell replace the screen or fix it? Or am I out on that idea too?
Thanks for any help 
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Sounds like it's been clouted.
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I switched off the PC last night and switched it on this morning. It sat on my desk with nothing on top of it over night and only thing that's happened to it since is me carrying it downstairs, and I definitely didn't hit anything with it.
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It's definitely worth trying Dell if the laptop is still under warranty. My daughter's laptop developed a similar problem last year - it was 3 years old but fortunately she had paid for the extended warranty and Dell replaced the screen without quibble - although you have to spend about half an hour talking to technical support first!
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Dell Online Chat is extremely helpful . Tedious in having to jump through the hoops, but hey it got the job done.
They'll be phoning soon to set a date on when to come round and replace the screen. It's a fairly small thing, but it's quite annoying and prominent.
Ta muchly.
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Excellent news. Well done. :-)
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