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Does your head ever make you want to scratch it from the inside?Ummm.... no. That sounds pretty scary, actually. I hope it never happens to me.
Winter break - and you left the computer ON all that time for nothing. Shut it OFF. Problem solved !!!!
Better yet. Get your diploma/degree and a job in the real world and you'll never get a winter break to mess up your monitor. Problem solved.
How do you know it was for nothing? Maybe he wanted to be able to access his files while on vacation, or VNC/remote desktop control his computer to do something. Or maybe it doubled as a web server. Or... I can come up with any number of possibilities for why you would want to leave your computer on while you are away. You can't assume he left it on for nothing.
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I was just joking about actually getting a 'winter break'. I assumed he is a student. As an IT professional myself we dont get 'winter breaks'. I'm glad there was no will effect and he fixed it.
What a great hint - thanks. And I liked your 'scratch your head from the inside' joke, which was very apropos given your situation.
If you're away for a month - or even a day - TURN IT OFF! And we wonder why the planet is warming up...
Those of us with a grounding in actual science understand exactly why the planet is cooling down. It's called that great big light in the daytime sky.
This is a problem on 24' iMacs, it happenned to me while the machine was preparing DVDs with iDVD.
An easy way to solve it is to make a white jpeg the size of your screen, put it in iPhoto and use it as a screen saver.
To solve the problem with iDVD, open system prefs / desktop and screen saver / screen saver and click on 'Test', the screen won't burn in ;)
OK, I have no idea why LCD displays 'burn-in' and I've been in the A/V display industry for a long time. The phosphors in CRT and Plasma displays (and cameras using tube pickups) burn fairly easily and you can usually use a white image to burn the entire image to the same level.
Liquid Crystal Displays are a different technology and, frankly, I don't understand why they 'burn-in'. But I have definitely seen it on several occasions, although it usually takes quite a bit longer for this to happen than a phosphor-based technology. Are the crystals in the liquid getting stuck? Often using a changing pattern will 'un-stick' the stuck pixels or on screens with live video, the 'burned' image simply works itself out over time.
I'd love to understand more about LCDs getting 'burned-in'.
LCDs (and plasmas, but not CRTs) suffer from an unrelated phenomenon called image persistence. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_persistence
All it takes to fix it is to have the pixels flip back and forth a few times, kinda like exercise.
I have a 20' iMac and I get slight burn in if my screen freezes for even 24 hours. The burn in goes away after an hour or so.
As for the folks who say 'Turn it OFF!', I agree from the power saving side to some small extent, however, some of us still need to access our iMac even when we are away from the home/office. Turning it off defeats that purpose.
As for power consumption, my iMac uses something like 10 Watts of power when it is asleep, and it uses 8 Watts when it is turned off. Not a huge amount of planet saving going on with 1488 Watts (2 Watts per hour * 24hrs * 31 days) of power over a month. Yes every bit counts, but there are much more efficient ways of saving the planet while we are away from home. My flat screen TV uses 14 Watts of power when turn off. So, bottom line, if you REALLY want to save the planet, then unplug your electronics when not in use, or turn off the power bar.
Apologies for going off topic :-)
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Then again, you could just take the position that the carbon dioxide you are helping to create is much appreciated by your local plant life and quit worrying about it.
Where I live, the planet seems colder to me now than it did 6 months ago. Is there something wrong with me?
Oh yeah- and thanks for the LCD tip.
Nothing that a good hard look at a calendar won't fix.
i believe that this issue is not 'burn-in' but some sort of pixel memory issue. it occurs on my 24' alu iMac quite often. this issue appears to be heat related, and always goes away with time and use, or non use. it is very annoying when editing photos, but is not permanent (so far).
i say it is heat related because it is worse when the machine is running hot, and improves if you cool it. some people have helped their problems using fan control utilities to speed the fans, some find turning down screen brightness helps.
I have a 24' aluminum iMac with frequent 'image persistence', wherein I can actually read partial contents of web pages long after having shut the browser window. After googling the problem, I came across the JScreenFix applet from jscreenfix.com. Running the applet in my browser window, with the window set at full screen, has been successful in scrubbing out the smudges of text, but they reappear as soon as I have any window open for too long.
So long as I use a desktop photo that has lots of detail I don't tend to see the image persistence, but if I am doing work that has a plain background, the image is very distracting and I then take the time to scrub it out.
This problem never evidenced itself in my older 20' white iMac, or my even earlier 22' plasma cinema display.
There's never been a plasma Cinema Display (or any other plasma display from Apple, for that matter). All Cinema Display models are LCD.
In my effort to fix my screen problem I wrote this applescript to make running the test multiple times easy. Maybe some of you will find it useful. Instructions for how to use the script are included. My screen problem wasn't fixed unfortunately, but I think it's different than the problem described here.
An additional comment about heat and image persistence. It is surprising how much CPU time some webpages use. I have just checked iStat on my machine and found the power supply to be running at 82°C (very hot) and the CPU running at 80% although the machine was 'idle'. I closed one web page, I think it might have been running Flash ads and the PS temp drops 10° in a couple of minutes and CPU goes idle. In retrospect, often the image persistence is of this web site, i dont know if those two facts are related or not.
My point is that some web pages generate a lot of CPU use and heat, and may be related to image persistence / ghosting on LCD screen such as the 24' iMac.
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I have a 24' iMac and am quite annoyed with screen burn indeed. I trade stocks on a number of computers from home off of a java-based Scottrade brokerage. On my PC screens there are no screen burns despite them running for hours with small windows of everpresently changing numbers. However, on the iMac, even if one of these windows is left open even for just under a minute, the shadow of the window, even after i have close that window, remains burned into my screen, and is still there after i restart my computer. I then have to run a screen burn fixer to repixelate (http://www.jscreenfix.com/basic.php) which makes it disappear but this is really annoying me and I doubt it is due to my personal iMac, as I just got it! Could there be a thing to adjust in my java or what?
Can anyone give me some insight on this or a way by which to improve this?
Thanx