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Warning: This just fucked my 2k$ 4k LG display. I ran the website 15 minutes ago and quickly closed it after 15 seconds. My screen is still flickering in the po

by adv0r 3y ago

Warning: This just fucked my 2k$ 4k LG display. I ran the website 15 minutes ago and quickly closed it after 15 seconds. My screen is still flickering in the portion of the screen where it used to be the webpage. I rebooted. Still happening FML please put a big disclaimer.

personalityson 3y ago
I have the same, but a thought crossed my mind that it somehow stimulates your vision so that you start seeing the flickering which is always there
- roflmaostc 3y ago
  For me, I can exclude this. I only notice it on the now broken screen, four other screens are fine (where I did not run it). Also my slow-mo phone video confirms it.
eigenvalue 3y ago
Jeez, I'm really sorry, I hadn't thought of that. It worked fine on all my screens without any issue (I tried it on 3 different ones). I just added a warning about this. Sorry again, I hope your screen recovers.
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eigenvalue 3y ago
People are saying that that if you turn it off (maybe even unplug it) for 10 minutes, it goes away. Hopefully that's the case for you.
- dghughes 3y ago
  Yeah I'd say unplug for sure it's amazing how many things can be solved by just unplugging something and letting any charge dissipate. That was my go to trick when I was a slot tech at a casino. The old $50K/each slot machines often went crazy with errors some due to EEPROM "chip creep" other errors possibly static. So I just unplugged and waited ten minutes or so.
Tade0 3y ago
If it's anything like my something something UltraGear LG monitor, disconnecting power for two minutes or so might help. I had severe ghosting in the shape of YouTube's home page and disconnecting it solved the issue. Apparently the type of panel they use tends to do stuff like that.
matei88 3y ago
found that something like this fixes it https://youtu.be/t6jlhqNxRYk?feature=shared&t=8468 https://youtu.be/t6jlhqNxRYk?feature=shared&t=8468 just play it in full screen for a few seconds
- andrewjmg 3y ago
  worked like a charm. thank you so much!
joshspankit 3y ago
What is going on? Burn-in is understandable but “the content on my screen flickered” should not be a breaking edge case.
mmh0000 3y ago
It did the same thing to my monitor, which is NOT the program's fault. That's terrible hardware/hardware design if software can break it forever, especially if a webpage can do it... Someone could be so malicious with that. My monitor has a built-in "LCD conditioning" thing, which just slowly flips through various solid color screens. That "fixed" it. I suspect a YouTube video doing the same would also work.
- voltaireodactyl 3y ago
  I had a weird app do this to my screen, and a 4K YouTube video of just that appeared to fix it fairly quickly.

by adv0r 3y ago

personalityson 3y ago

I have the same, but a thought crossed my mind that it somehow stimulates your vision so that you start seeing the flickering which is always there

roflmaostc 3y ago
For me, I can exclude this. I only notice it on the now broken screen, four other screens are fine (where I did not run it). Also my slow-mo phone video confirms it.

eigenvalue 3y ago

Jeez, I'm really sorry, I hadn't thought of that. It worked fine on all my screens without any issue (I tried it on 3 different ones). I just added a warning about this. Sorry again, I hope your screen recovers.

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eigenvalue 3y ago

People are saying that that if you turn it off (maybe even unplug it) for 10 minutes, it goes away. Hopefully that's the case for you.

dghughes 3y ago
Yeah I'd say unplug for sure it's amazing how many things can be solved by just unplugging something and letting any charge dissipate. That was my go to trick when I was a slot tech at a casino. The old $50K/each slot machines often went crazy with errors some due to EEPROM "chip creep" other errors possibly static. So I just unplugged and waited ten minutes or so.

Tade0 3y ago

If it's anything like my something something UltraGear LG monitor, disconnecting power for two minutes or so might help. I had severe ghosting in the shape of YouTube's home page and disconnecting it solved the issue. Apparently the type of panel they use tends to do stuff like that.

matei88 3y ago

found that something like this fixes it https://youtu.be/t6jlhqNxRYk?feature=shared&t=8468 https://youtu.be/t6jlhqNxRYk?feature=shared&t=8468 just play it in full screen for a few seconds

andrewjmg 3y ago
worked like a charm. thank you so much!

joshspankit 3y ago

What is going on? Burn-in is understandable but “the content on my screen flickered” should not be a breaking edge case.

mmh0000 3y ago

It did the same thing to my monitor, which is NOT the program's fault. That's terrible hardware/hardware design if software can break it forever, especially if a webpage can do it... Someone could be so malicious with that. My monitor has a built-in "LCD conditioning" thing, which just slowly flips through various solid color screens. That "fixed" it. I suspect a YouTube video doing the same would also work.

voltaireodactyl 3y ago
I had a weird app do this to my screen, and a 4K YouTube video of just that appeared to fix it fairly quickly.