fly in the monitor

Pete · Wed 19 Jul, 2006 09.49

one of them frickin corn fly things is walking around inside my expensive LCD monitor. How the hell do I get it out? I don't want it to die inside leaving a grotty looking mark :S

Bail · Wed 19 Jul, 2006 10.53

Is it inside the casing? Or between the LCD and the plastic screen? (can you see it now?)

If its in the back then you should unplug it for a few hours then carefully remove the plastic casing, find the blighter, take him out and put it back togeather.

Dr Lobster* · Wed 19 Jul, 2006 11.45

i'd argue that's a manufacturing defect - is it still under warranty? we use a fair few tft's at work and i've never seen that happen - in fact, when i took one apart a few months ago, seem to recall that everything was pressed together tightly - there wouldn't be a space for an insect to crawl between the layers (it was an acer panel which dropped btw)

Pete · Wed 19 Jul, 2006 12.46

welllllll

it's probably not under warrantee anymore as it's gotta be 18 months old by now. The flies are everywhere though, my window is black because of them and they do have a habit of crawling inside stuff such as picture frames. It's very annoying.

The woman at ebuyer who I rang had a chat with her chums at the call centre, the guy said he'd had it happen at his house and the woman next to her said she'd seen it up stairs. In both cases they have a habit of falling down when they die so that's good.

I can't see it at the moment though, not sure where he's gone.

DAS · Wed 19 Jul, 2006 12.53

Solve the problem at source and improve your personal hygiene. You dirrrty dirrrty boy.

cdd · Fri 21 Jul, 2006 16.34

try with a powerful vacuum cleaner at the edges of the monitor. Otherwise if he has gone in the front (if that is where the gap is - a front fitting screen) you willl never get it out; just wait until he dies, which shouldn't be long! Once he is dead he should drop to the bottom and that will be the end of it

Pete · Sat 22 Jul, 2006 01.42

he's gone btw, dunno how or why nor do i care tbh

Sput · Sat 22 Jul, 2006 09.06

Divine intervention?

Nick Harvey · Sat 22 Jul, 2006 12.16

I sent him off to write out the BBC World presenter's rota for June, one hundred times.

Sput · Sat 22 Jul, 2006 13.10

I bet the poor thing hurled itself from the monitor and plunged to an untimely demise after sentencing.

iSon · Mon 24 Jul, 2006 00.08

How very strange - the same thing has happened on my laptop. It's only a little black midge thing but it's now been motionless for a while and has failed to fall down.

Do they decompose!?