My school computer has a cluster of stuck pixels near the bottom-right corner of the screen. Most are on blue, a few are stuck on red, and the rest of the cluster is stuck on both colors. Flashing colors only seemed to shrink it. Can I get some help?

Yes you can, by calling your school's IT department. Seriously, this mentality of taking matters into your own hands on school equipment is a BAD idea. If anything goes wrong, you are going to cop it. Contact the IT department, show them the monitor, chances are they'll either fix it or replace it. Trust me, as a former high school tech, there is nothing more annoying then students trying to fix equipment themselves (especially when it goes wrong). Leave it to the professionals, no matter what the issue is.

I've had to get it fixed twice, both times they totally missed it.

Did you show the tech? You'd probably find that the monitor is covered by warranty which means you get a brand spanking new one. I wasn't trying to be rude with my reply or anything, but take it from me, if anyone finds out you did anything out of the ordinary on the machine and something on the machine fails or breaks (doesn't even matter if its related to what you did or not), the school WILL try to pin it on you. Its best to leave it to the school to fix, that way if anything does go wrong, you just spotted the problem

Try running a pixel fix video in a loop for a few hours. If that doesn't work then you have no other choice but a replacement, or living with them.

I've heard that tapping on the pixels does help. Had a single pixel stuck on an older laptop, running a loop and tapping on it fixed it. Don't know which actually worked though.
Don't do anything invasive to the device, because as was stated, if something goes wrong and the school's IT finds out you did something, you'll be on your own.

Firm rubbing can also help, but not too hard or you could damage it more.

Yes I did point it out to them. Its one of the older MacBooks that came with Leopard on it.


I have rubbed it with a cuetip before, but I dont think it was very firm.