also, you DO know why screensavers were invented & called screensavers, right? :)

LCD's can do this. That's why plasma TV's are better. read projection TV's can do this too.

i haven't heard of his in YEARS though. if a re-boot doesn't help could be a defective monitor.

That's why plasma TV's are better

er.... not in my universe... plasma TV's are known for their problems with screen burn. LCD's are not.

LCD's don't "burn in" like CRT's or Plasma screens. The display adapter isn't refreshing the whole screen. Try dragging any window into the area and it should replace the old stuff.

Try dragging any window into the area and it should replace the old stuff.

In the example I provided above... doing this did not cure the problem. In the example PJ gave (the original post) I think re-booting would be doing a little more than merely dragging windows about. In other words... if a reboot didn't fix this... then dragging windows about cannot possibly be any better.

Plug the screen into another source? - That should prove something! - G

I think this is a laptop.... not an independant LCD monitor.

Yup! "on my dell inspiron 9200" . . .wellll . . see if this can be outputted to another LCD or CRT? - G

Yes.... that'll work.

ok, woke up this morning and its gone. no sign of it whatsoever...
im not so comforted though.. why was it there? and when/will it come back?

ive had many'a'laptop in my day... never had a problem like this....
my warrenty is up in dec'05
should i do anything? or wait and see if it happens again?

it was very odd...

it was about one inch above the taskbar... right over the start menu and ran all the way over the clock... it effected about 3.5 inches above that as well, while the rest of the screen above it was untouched...

do you think this is a LCD issue?
or could it be my video card itself?

thanks everyone

pj

I think it's a Windows issue. My guess is that your computer was running low on resources, which is not hard to believe after having Vegas and a few other programs running simultaneously. After closing Vegas Windows tried to redraw the screen areas that had been behind the Vegas window, but didn't have enough free memory to complete the task. So in those spots what had been there immediately before closing Vegas didn't get refreshed. A few moments later Windows probably "adopted" those areas as being part of the desktop bitmap and left them there. A reboot should always solve this.

Maybe Windows 2043 won't have the low resources problems anymore. ;)

It is entirely certain that nothing got "burned in" on your LCD display. This isn't physically possible unless the circuitry of the display panel itself is failing, and in that case you would probably have a non-functional display.

hmm.. stange
i did try dragging a picture over the ghosting lines...
ad they popped right though of course...

just ealier that day, i was editing a photo that was HUGE with photoshop cs2... no problem there...
i have 1GB of mem...
and not too much running in the backround...
(i use security task manager) along with killing many of the msconfig startup apps..

thanks
pj

Don't tell the drug companies about "LCDSSS" (LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY STICKY SCREEN SYNDROME) or we will have to take some kind of pill for it.

JJK

btw, LCD's do indeed burn-in, just not as much as CRTs.

I've had an icon in one spot on my desktop for a long time, and now that icon is visible on my LCD, when there is a smooth grey background.

yes.. but trust me.. this is not a typical burn in.. its not a burn at all really...
(its gone today... but afraid it will come back)
i heard also, that a true burn-in will ghosting that isvisable when the monitor is shut off completely....
mine didnt... even when i shut it down right afterwards... when i turned it back on it was there though....

the next day, after my computer had a goodnight sleep, it was gone...
for now...
scary

pj

Yeah, I wasn't suggesting that...
Like others have suggested, it was probably a video card issue (I would say a windows issue, but you said you could drag stuff over it, and the lines didn't go away).

My NEC 1980SX LCD display manual states that LCD screens do burn-in, but that the burn-in disappears if the display is powered off for an equal amount of time that caused the burn-in. That said, I have never seen any visible burn-in on any of my 3 LCD screens