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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

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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

Divine intervention?

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

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

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!?