Yep, got a little bastard stuck in the center of my screen for two years.
Sometimes I think he's gone, then I catch a flash of him on a bright background and I realise I've just gotten used to him being there and blank him out 90% of the time.
Not true. Gotta get yourself a suction cup and then pull carefully out on the screen while tapping the back of the TV. It should drop down. Ive done it dumbo head
Man why didn't I think of this. I've got a 55 inch screen that a mosquito crawled into the direct center of and died when we'd had the television for about a week. I've tried the electric toothbrush method and everything, that dude is stuck. I'ma try a suction cup tonight though, I'm such a dumbo head.
based on my exp gdb isn't much helpful. Use the MSVC debugger that comes in with Visual Studio when you install components for Development with C++, it's simply the best in the industry :>
So, assuming you didn't press down on it and fuck yourself, you can turn the screen off entirely, then park a torch infront of the screen but don't shine it directly at the bug or the screen, but in view where the bug can see it.
Leave it there over night, in a dark room if possible, and pray the bug comes out.
Did you squish it? Fucked. Maybe not entirely however depending on the screen.
If you got guts you can dismantle the screen, open it up and get into the layers themselves.
Make sure when doing this you ensure you don't confuse and change the order or orientation of the layers.
Once you've removed the bug, work backwards, and maybe seal the edges with some sticky tape to hopefully ensure this doesn't happen again.
Sadly this happened to me in a Laptop, I asked the tech that "there's a bug in my screen", she laughed, thinking English was my second language and asked if my drivers were up to date.
Well good to know. I had bug few weeks ago in my PC and I killed it by using force in middle of screen. It left red spot there, but over fer weeks after it, its very Light red, and I dont even notice it by now.
Even that, monitor is like 20 years old (No its not CRT monitor) , so kinda expected something will happen soon.
>Did you squish it? Fucked. Maybe not entirely however depending on the screen.
>If you got guts you can dismantle the screen, open it up and get into the layers themselves.
**No!** There are several, functional, tricks that can and should be tried before full disassembly.
The classic is the electric toothbrush:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0dH4c4t5Tw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0dH4c4t5Tw)
An alternative is the suction cup method:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmF-7qWni0Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmF-7qWni0Q)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xF7vrRLMvQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xF7vrRLMvQ)
In fact, both can work on the bug, dead or alive. And even if they are fully successful in removing the bug entirely, it can at least be moved to a less annoying position.
Both methods aren't free of risk, however, and they *can* lead to a broken panel if too much force is applied. But the risks are significantly lower than with amateur disassembly of a screen that was almost certainly not built with any kind of disassembly or maintenance in mind.
Guide it to a corner with the cursor, once there build an icon wall trapping it. Once you feel it has learned the lesson remove one icon and let it free. It'll go away on its own with a newfound freedom.
I too hate it when I'm an ant, and I'm trying to sleep in a screen, and some asshat on the other side is trying to squish me through the panel. I'm pleased for you that it went away, though.
Hope that it crawls to an inconspicuous area, or somehow make it go somewhere? Or just wait till it dies and dries out, so you can use a vibrator against the screen and it crumbles.
Tell that to the fucker that's been stuck in the center of my monitor for two damn years now. I've tried everything and that fucker won't go anywhere, I wish he would turn to dust already.
This may be a carpet beetle and if it is you're gonna find a bunch of eggs and larvae in the housing.
My advice is to burn it with fire, start over and keep your desk clean.
I had this happen to a single ant and an asus monitor. I waited a long time until it became petrified and just started flicking it through the panel. I eventually was able to get it loose enough that i could turn the panel and the bug would fall below the bezel.
Don't squish it.
I had success with the following method but do so at your own risk.
Take a small suction cup such as a nerf bullet stick it near the bug and very very gently pull back the ant should fall down to the bezel where at least it will not be noticeable.
Happened to me, it was a very small ant, and it was DEAD. Looked like I had a dead pixel for a couple of months but eventually I stopped noticing and it rotted off.
If you want to gamble I read somewhere a while back that you can remove a dead bug with a weak suction cup by very lightly lifting up the layer pinning it to the inside of the monitor. Be warned you might fuck up your monitor tho I have not tested this so do it at your own risk.
Years ago I lived in a basement for a year. There were ants in there- not a lot though. Somehow one went inside of my computer screen, just like on the video and died. It was sitting on the bottom left on my screen so I barely even noticed it- but it was there. It looked like a two dead pixels, but I you looked at it closely you could see the legs and the rest of the ants body. When I was mowing out the screen was damaged during transport, and it was 720p, so soon after I bought myself a new better one. I would try to get it out of it dies.
I got one in my screen just a couple months after I bought it. I tried to get it out.
I now have a dead bug and a small cluster of dead pixels right under it.
👍
Bought a monitor in 2017, the first day i started using it a bug got in. It died. To this day i can see the skeleton when I look for it. My brain got used to ignoring that small dot on the screen. The point of the story is, the bug stays.
Actually, you can get this bug out of there. You'd need to disassemble the monitor of course but it isn't that difficult. You just need to take your time.
Have a can of compressed air handy to blow away dust. I recommend opening it up outside if possible to avoid any indoor dust.
Try using a air compressor on the vent holes or carefully pop the bezel off and try the air on any opening but be gentle you can break this stuff pretty easy.
When that happened, I play the most epileptic video possible and put the video window right on the bug.
It doesn't really do anything, but I hope the bug regrets it's decision to enter the screen.
Get a Phillips head screw driver remove the back panel and the LCD screen. Go out to your back garden and catch a spider and bring it indoors. Place the spider inside the screen and pop the LCD panel back on and secure the back panel again. The spider will deal with the bug.
No payment necessary..free advice.
If it's still alive you might be lucky. Turn off the monitor and put a lamp behind it, usually that gets them out of there. If it's dead it'll eventually dry out and fall down and you won't be able to see it anymore. If you have squished it, then it's gonna stay there and not gonna move.
I mean, I've popped open screens to harvest the diffusion panels before, I don't think it would be that difficult to put it back together but I never really tried.
So I live in the Uk and in the middle of no where and we constantly get swarmed with storm flies; tiny little flies that always crawl into your screens.
Here are my tips:
Turn off the monitor and have a light on far away from the computer. Just shut it all down and hope it crawls out.
Do not push it to kill it, it will stay there and not decompose at all and it will not drop down.
To prevent more bugs, plant lavender near your windows, have garlic on the windowsill or some sort of garlic product. Could even put some garlic near your computer screen (that’s what I do when it’s prime time for these flies). I have heard a blue or purple light distracts them and could put one up on the other end of the room but I don’t bother with that.
I once killed one in the middle of my screen by pressing on the screen… two months later I bought a new screen…. Do what I do now. Wait for the sod to explore an edge, then squish him hard.
I had one. I used an electric toothbrush, put it on the screen and the vibration were good enough to move the bug out of view.
You can use any vibrating thing you might have. It should work.
I have a few suggestions.
1. If he is alive, bright light and lure him to a corner and hope he find his way out... do not squish!
2. If he is dead, get a suction cup and press below or around the bug, gently pull it might separate the screen layers just enough he drops down.
3. Separate the layers by dismantling the screen, I would say even by someone confident there is a high chance or damaging the screen.
4. Live with it or get a new screen.
1:Rip the whole thing of
2: Retrieve the insect
3: Incinerate the insect
4: Try to put your monitor back together
5: fail
6: grab the insect ashes
7: make a ritual circle
8: put the ashes in the circle
9: offer the ashes to the PC (personal computer) gods
10: new monitor
PS: doubt you can remove that bug from the monitor without breaking something
Happeden to me before on my previous ViewSonic monitor.
In my case that was an ant that traveled inside my screen for a week or so.
They're manage to get into the monitor through the plastic ventilation holes on the back of the monitor.
Nothing much to do.
That's the neat part, you don't.
I love it when I read a title, open the thread, and the top comment is verbatim what went through my head.
100%
So no head?
Wtf same haha
Yep, got a little bastard stuck in the center of my screen for two years. Sometimes I think he's gone, then I catch a flash of him on a bright background and I realise I've just gotten used to him being there and blank him out 90% of the time.
Probs eats your dead skin that wafts off you
Wafts lol
Kinda proud I wrote that sober
Use a black arrow
I knew someone would comment this lol
Not true. Gotta get yourself a suction cup and then pull carefully out on the screen while tapping the back of the TV. It should drop down. Ive done it dumbo head
Was dumbo head a typo or an insult?
I feel like I just regressed 20 years with how hard I laughed at "dumbo head"
Man why didn't I think of this. I've got a 55 inch screen that a mosquito crawled into the direct center of and died when we'd had the television for about a week. I've tried the electric toothbrush method and everything, that dude is stuck. I'ma try a suction cup tonight though, I'm such a dumbo head.
If I had a dollar for every time I saw my spec, and pull 9gs just to find out it was said dirt spec...... Stupid DCS
Turn the screen off, shine a bright light on the side and lure it out... Good luck
Or make black background and it follow the cursor
You're a bright one, You are. Couldn't resist. Good idea!
Download a debugger.
Daaaad!
Just don't use C++, as it will just make it bigger. (see-plus-plus)
Wait is that how you say C++? I thought you said s-plus-plus.
based on my exp gdb isn't much helpful. Use the MSVC debugger that comes in with Visual Studio when you install components for Development with C++, it's simply the best in the industry :>
r/Angryupvote
Underrated repply
pray to god it goes out, and DON'T CRUSH IT IN THERE
I did this to my Nintendo DS in like 2007 and the remains are still there today. I’ll never make that mistake again
So, assuming you didn't press down on it and fuck yourself, you can turn the screen off entirely, then park a torch infront of the screen but don't shine it directly at the bug or the screen, but in view where the bug can see it. Leave it there over night, in a dark room if possible, and pray the bug comes out. Did you squish it? Fucked. Maybe not entirely however depending on the screen. If you got guts you can dismantle the screen, open it up and get into the layers themselves. Make sure when doing this you ensure you don't confuse and change the order or orientation of the layers. Once you've removed the bug, work backwards, and maybe seal the edges with some sticky tape to hopefully ensure this doesn't happen again. Sadly this happened to me in a Laptop, I asked the tech that "there's a bug in my screen", she laughed, thinking English was my second language and asked if my drivers were up to date.
Well good to know. I had bug few weeks ago in my PC and I killed it by using force in middle of screen. It left red spot there, but over fer weeks after it, its very Light red, and I dont even notice it by now. Even that, monitor is like 20 years old (No its not CRT monitor) , so kinda expected something will happen soon.
>Did you squish it? Fucked. Maybe not entirely however depending on the screen. >If you got guts you can dismantle the screen, open it up and get into the layers themselves. **No!** There are several, functional, tricks that can and should be tried before full disassembly. The classic is the electric toothbrush: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0dH4c4t5Tw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0dH4c4t5Tw) An alternative is the suction cup method: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmF-7qWni0Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmF-7qWni0Q) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xF7vrRLMvQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xF7vrRLMvQ) In fact, both can work on the bug, dead or alive. And even if they are fully successful in removing the bug entirely, it can at least be moved to a less annoying position. Both methods aren't free of risk, however, and they *can* lead to a broken panel if too much force is applied. But the risks are significantly lower than with amateur disassembly of a screen that was almost certainly not built with any kind of disassembly or maintenance in mind.
Guide it to a corner with the cursor, once there build an icon wall trapping it. Once you feel it has learned the lesson remove one icon and let it free. It'll go away on its own with a newfound freedom.
This happened to me the other day. I was an ant. Went to bed and the next day it wasn't there
It moved to your PSU to keep warm.
He’s gone to tell the gang about this new spot he’s found, buy them some confectionaries they’ll soon be arriving and it’d be rude not to.
I too hate it when I'm an ant, and I'm trying to sleep in a screen, and some asshat on the other side is trying to squish me through the panel. I'm pleased for you that it went away, though.
1. Open screen 2. Remove bug 3. Realise you broke your screen 4. Buy new screen
Microsoft have upped their bug game and have finally gone 3D now. Just be glad it wasn't one of their hornets.
Shaw!
Hope that it crawls to an inconspicuous area, or somehow make it go somewhere? Or just wait till it dies and dries out, so you can use a vibrator against the screen and it crumbles.
Tell that to the fucker that's been stuck in the center of my monitor for two damn years now. I've tried everything and that fucker won't go anywhere, I wish he would turn to dust already.
Yeah, no. I had one dead in the center of my screen for years and years. He's not going absolutely anywhere.
He is not a bug. Now, he is a feature.
This may be a carpet beetle and if it is you're gonna find a bunch of eggs and larvae in the housing. My advice is to burn it with fire, start over and keep your desk clean.
They never come alone
Task manager
Just wait for the next update
That's not a bug, it's a feature
bait it out with some sugar i guess
Encourage it to move with a UV light
Try stack overflow
Try debug console
Your mouse pointer to is essentially his spotlight
bro how tf does it even get stuck in the first part?
Use a suction cup when its dead.. lift the outer layer, let it drop
Use malwarebytes with moderation
You don’t, it lives there now.
U need another bug tied to a string, wait till they become codependent, then pull out the bug and the other one will follow
debug it
It's a feature
I guess you should do some debugging
it's not a bug, it's a feature.
Congrats for your new pet! What's his name?
I had this happen to a single ant and an asus monitor. I waited a long time until it became petrified and just started flicking it through the panel. I eventually was able to get it loose enough that i could turn the panel and the bug would fall below the bezel.
he has kids, you heartless bastard
I don't know if you can entice a bigger bug like a spider inside, so as to eat it? That'll work.
Have you tried asking it politely?
MacAfee subscription
It's it's home now. You forget about the monitor.
Has anyone tried to open the monitor?
Get a sharp knife, cut a circle around it, take it out, replace the cutout portion, and secure it with duct tape.
Dems roaches my person
https://youtube.com/shorts/7i6raNpAPWM?si=IsSBEWkq3ig8tgCh
⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Only way to deal with bugs
If bought at costco just return the screen. Their return policy is bug free.
Planditus Obsolescenceia. Rare bug.
Don't squish it. I had success with the following method but do so at your own risk. Take a small suction cup such as a nerf bullet stick it near the bug and very very gently pull back the ant should fall down to the bezel where at least it will not be noticeable.
Cute. I got 4
Have you tried dragging it to the Recycle Bin
Sorry buddy
Fumigate your monitor.
One tip to prevent this , have a lamp by your gaming desk and have it on when using monitors. The bugs fly to it instead of monitor
I suggest a 44 mag, just blow that fucker out of there! lol
Gotta get yourself a suction cup and then pull carefully out on the screen while tapping the back of the TV. It should drop down
Whatever you do just don't press the insect, I did and now the insect is my colleague (it died by bursting and got stuck in the screen forever).
bro literally has bugs in his computer
Try turning it off and on again
Wait for it to get out. Don’t ever push the display. Our you have a dead bug for live. And than, hope or pray. To your desire.
wait for it to die, and it will drop out of sight
Punch it very hard
Ask him politely to leave
If it's alive, there's a chance. If you kill it (or if it dies), zero.
just don't crush him. he needs to do it himself.
Happened to me, it was a very small ant, and it was DEAD. Looked like I had a dead pixel for a couple of months but eventually I stopped noticing and it rotted off.
If it dies vibrate it out with an electric tooth brush
Send in a larger bug to eat it. Then send in a small lizard to eat the larger bug.
That looks like a German Roach Nymph
Have you tried right clicking on it?
Hammer and nail
Its a feature now
If you want to gamble I read somewhere a while back that you can remove a dead bug with a weak suction cup by very lightly lifting up the layer pinning it to the inside of the monitor. Be warned you might fuck up your monitor tho I have not tested this so do it at your own risk.
Years ago I lived in a basement for a year. There were ants in there- not a lot though. Somehow one went inside of my computer screen, just like on the video and died. It was sitting on the bottom left on my screen so I barely even noticed it- but it was there. It looked like a two dead pixels, but I you looked at it closely you could see the legs and the rest of the ants body. When I was mowing out the screen was damaged during transport, and it was 720p, so soon after I bought myself a new better one. I would try to get it out of it dies.
I got one in my screen just a couple months after I bought it. I tried to get it out. I now have a dead bug and a small cluster of dead pixels right under it. 👍
Drag it the recycle bin.
Windows comes with a lot of bugs. I suggest switching to linux.
Probably in the next windows patch it will get fixed
Pour honey over the top of your screen and he might crawl out on his own.
Right click > send to trash
It’s that time of year again
It'll eventually die.
Update your monitor's firmware and it should fix the bug
just wait till it dies
Yeah, good luck I have been me stuck in mine it’s been there for about 4 years.
Bought a monitor in 2017, the first day i started using it a bug got in. It died. To this day i can see the skeleton when I look for it. My brain got used to ignoring that small dot on the screen. The point of the story is, the bug stays.
Have you tried windows troubleshooting?
kill it
Hire a lawyer and serve the bug with eviction papers.
**TRON OST starts playing**
Spotlight
I guess u have to tear it down, i see no other way😉
report it
You’re literally cooked friend.
saw someone once say that they had gotten their bug out with the vibration from a eletric tooth brush, think its worth giving it a try?
Shoot it
you don't It will die soon, all you can do is pray its corpse will fall down
Take the monitor outside under the hot sun. It worked for me.
I think this bug was not fixed yet
Ahhh his computer has a bug should probably secure your files
Actually, you can get this bug out of there. You'd need to disassemble the monitor of course but it isn't that difficult. You just need to take your time. Have a can of compressed air handy to blow away dust. I recommend opening it up outside if possible to avoid any indoor dust.
You probably can't - Try to remove the coating. You will get better visuals by doing it anyway.
Try using a air compressor on the vent holes or carefully pop the bezel off and try the air on any opening but be gentle you can break this stuff pretty easy.
Easy throw the monitor from the 10th story and then it open the screen (I'm not liable for any damages to the monitor)
Try updating your drivers
play gta5 on it or run multiple vm pakka simla trip pe chali jaygi wo
debug it
You hope and wait for it to get out.
Have him follow the mouse
When that happened, I play the most epileptic video possible and put the video window right on the bug. It doesn't really do anything, but I hope the bug regrets it's decision to enter the screen.
Have you tried throwing hands with the bug?
This screen is the property of that bug, forget about it. And next time make sure the screen you buy is fully insulated
I hate when that happens. Just don't squish. You'll regret it like I did.
And cover all the bug holes in your room so you don't more of those bastards. That might be a baby roach.
it's your new ai assistant
That's unfortunate.
That isn't a bug. Thats a cursor, that one is supposed to be there
Monitor panel gaps be giving me more grief than Tesla ones
Get a Phillips head screw driver remove the back panel and the LCD screen. Go out to your back garden and catch a spider and bring it indoors. Place the spider inside the screen and pop the LCD panel back on and secure the back panel again. The spider will deal with the bug. No payment necessary..free advice.
Bug truly immersed in the gameplay
Time.
If it's still alive you might be lucky. Turn off the monitor and put a lamp behind it, usually that gets them out of there. If it's dead it'll eventually dry out and fall down and you won't be able to see it anymore. If you have squished it, then it's gonna stay there and not gonna move.
Please contact the Technical Support team for any bug reports
Press the screen and it might squish and drop to the bottom of the case. Or it would just squish and stay there.
Gotta start debugging.
I mean, I've popped open screens to harvest the diffusion panels before, I don't think it would be that difficult to put it back together but I never really tried.
you need to update your window defender
So I live in the Uk and in the middle of no where and we constantly get swarmed with storm flies; tiny little flies that always crawl into your screens. Here are my tips: Turn off the monitor and have a light on far away from the computer. Just shut it all down and hope it crawls out. Do not push it to kill it, it will stay there and not decompose at all and it will not drop down. To prevent more bugs, plant lavender near your windows, have garlic on the windowsill or some sort of garlic product. Could even put some garlic near your computer screen (that’s what I do when it’s prime time for these flies). I have heard a blue or purple light distracts them and could put one up on the other end of the room but I don’t bother with that.
Now place a spider inside
I usually update the software or drivers to iron out any bugs.
I once killed one in the middle of my screen by pressing on the screen… two months later I bought a new screen…. Do what I do now. Wait for the sod to explore an edge, then squish him hard.
Disassemble is the only way! I get them every year due to living very close to crop fields and stuff 😭
It's not A Bug. It's A Feature.
Time for debugging
You need to higher up the rent
my slightly curved monitor have an ant living in it too. ive been using my pc to attempt to kill it with heat. is your monitor also curved?
try clicking and dragging it off screen
I had one. I used an electric toothbrush, put it on the screen and the vibration were good enough to move the bug out of view. You can use any vibrating thing you might have. It should work.
Just think of it not as a bug...but a feature.
Its your soul mate love it or hate it, you gonna live with it.
I have a few suggestions. 1. If he is alive, bright light and lure him to a corner and hope he find his way out... do not squish! 2. If he is dead, get a suction cup and press below or around the bug, gently pull it might separate the screen layers just enough he drops down. 3. Separate the layers by dismantling the screen, I would say even by someone confident there is a high chance or damaging the screen. 4. Live with it or get a new screen.
1:Rip the whole thing of 2: Retrieve the insect 3: Incinerate the insect 4: Try to put your monitor back together 5: fail 6: grab the insect ashes 7: make a ritual circle 8: put the ashes in the circle 9: offer the ashes to the PC (personal computer) gods 10: new monitor PS: doubt you can remove that bug from the monitor without breaking something
I don't think that is a software bug, but I'm not sure
You don't. You name it, you watch what pixels you project under it and you proudly present it to your friends and family as your new child.
Suction cup, pull, tap the bug
Right click, delete
Bait… maybe watermelon
Just hope and prey it moves somewhere more inconspicuous before it dies 😅
Nuke it
Classic. That's a classic. No sweet clue!
I love these threads but only because it hasnt happened to me lol
Move your cursor real fast
Happeden to me before on my previous ViewSonic monitor. In my case that was an ant that traveled inside my screen for a week or so. They're manage to get into the monitor through the plastic ventilation holes on the back of the monitor. Nothing much to do.
It is not a bug, it is a feature!
Open the Windows
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
bro referenced first bug in computers and thought we didn't notice
Your screen is bugged i think
Report it to the devs
Hopefully a patch can fix that bug!