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laidbackliam

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Feb 1, 2006
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so, i brought my laptop into the michigan ave apple store to schedule them to fix my laptop screen and the right fan of my laptop.

i get home, open the laptop, and now i have dead pixels on the bottom of my screen, near the bottom. i'm going to try restarting to see if this fixes anything, but i highly doubt it. any ideas on what i should do?
 

Shadow

macrumors 68000
Feb 17, 2006
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They could just be stuck, theres a program which flashes the screen to get rid of them, try VersionTracker. If that doesnt work, try massaging them...(carefully)
 

felipson

macrumors member
Dec 10, 2006
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If the pixels were fine BEFORE you took it in for service, seems to me that Apple should be responsible for that.

I agree and would demand an explanation or some sort of product damage reimbursement of some sort
 

onthat

macrumors regular
Feb 26, 2006
179
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Ruston, Louisiana
Download a pixelfixer and try that, but don't attempt to rub the screen in any way...nor either side. Give the program time, it took me a little over 2 hours to fix one on my first Powerbook. If that doesn't work, bring it to the apple store.
 

joseph_68

macrumors member
Apr 8, 2004
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Sounds like your display carelessly handled. There is no way I would stand for that. It sound like someone began picking up your notebook by the display OR in reassemling the case put some pressure on that part of the screen.

I would take it back in immediately and take a firm stance on a resolution.
 
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