Unique issue: Ant got behind friend's 4k Screen

[YedZed]

Your not gonna believe this. An ant crawled into my friends new 4k monitor and got between the display and the panel. See picture. ITS IN THE MONITOR

LIKE WTF who has to deal with this shit?

How do we get it out?!????

[Himommies]

If you want you can just kill it and leave a permanent blob on the monitor otherwise you have to take it apart(Voids Warranty) 

[kalnick]

1 minute ago, YedZed said:

Your not gonna believe this. An ant crawled into my friends new 4k monitor and got between the display and the panel. See picture. ITS IN THE MONITOR

LIKE WTF who has to deal with this shit?

How do we get it out?!????

if it came out of the box like that then retailer should replace it.

 

[YedZed]

1 minute ago, kalnick said:

if it came out of the box like that then retailer should replace it.

 

It happened today...

[ARikozuM]

This is the second "bug in the machine" thread in a month! 

[YedZed]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

This is the second "bug in the machine" thread in a month! 

Can you link to that one  

[Himommies]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

This is the second "bug in the machine" thread in a month! 

Yet not a single bug has gotten into my case and 90 percent of time I don't even have the side panel on

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, YedZed said:

Can you link to that one  

Have you ever tried to use the search bar for something specific? It sucks...

[ARikozuM]

Just now, Himommies said:

Yet not a single bug has gotten into my case and 90 percent of time I don't even have the side panel on

Luckily, Florida has a ton of lizards protecting my home. Now, if only one could wear a tuxedo...

[Damascus]

Try blasting canned air into the holes it came in through.

[YedZed]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Have you ever tried to use the search bar for something specific? It sucks...

Fair enough I don't expect it

[YedZed]

Just now, Damascus said:

Try blasting canned air into the holes it came in through.

That risks it falling to the bottom, and he (my friend) doesn't know the path out.

[Himommies]

1 minute ago, YedZed said:

That risks it falling to the bottom, and he (my friend) doesn't know the path out.

It's still alive?

[YedZed]

1 minute ago, Himommies said:

It's still alive?

Yep alive and kicking. We were considering turning of the monitor and trying to use light to lead it out. Would it work?

[Himommies]

Just now, YedZed said:

Yep alive and kicking. We were considering turning of the monitor and trying to use light to lead it out. Would it work?

Try that.Depends on the Ant

[zeros]

I know this is not a helpful comment but: lol.

 

I was actually thinking of what you said as I was reading this thread, turn the screen upside down and shake it towards the corner... best case it gets out, worst case it gets stuck a bit closer to the corner than where it is now.

 

Sad 4k monitor

[YedZed]

1 minute ago, zeros said:

I know this is not a helpful comment but: lol.

I know, we had a great laugh

[YedZed]

3 minutes ago, zeros said:

I know this is not a helpful comment but: lol.

 

I was actually thinking of what you said as I was reading this thread, turn the screen upside down and shake it towards the corner... best case it gets out, worst case it gets stuck a bit closer to the corner than where it is now.

 

Sad 4k monitor

I will recommend that. I'll let you know if it works

[Bcat00]

woah...... 

[ThumbWarriorDX]

DUDE this happened to me with my new monitor.

Luckily my intruder was just a midge fly and after a day and a half (curse low power LED backlights) that dude was cooked and fell out.

Afterward I popped my monitor apart to fix a small crack in the bezel and put some electrical tape around the panel's metal shell to prevent any critters creeping between the layers again. I really lucked out not having to pull the layers apart to clear it out.

They really should come taped from the factory for exactly this reason.

[H0R53]

Try updating the monitor's firmware, that may get rid of some additional bugs.

[sunnytse1]

7 minutes ago, H0R53 said:

Try updating the monitor's firmware, that may get rid of some additional bugs.

Ha ha so funny

[H0R53]

3 minutes ago, sunnytse1 said:

Ha ha so funny

Your avatar makes your reply even funnier

[YedZed]

14 hours ago, ThumbWarriorDX said:

DUDE this happened to me with my new monitor.

Luckily my intruder was just a midge fly and after a day and a half (curse low power LED backlights) that dude was cooked and fell out.

Afterward I popped my monitor apart to fix a small crack in the bezel and put some electrical tape around the panel's metal shell to prevent any critters creeping between the layers again. I really lucked out not having to pull the layers apart to clear it out.

They really should come taped from the factory for exactly this reason.

Yeah, it probably entered through a vent or something.