LCD Burn-in?

I am having an issue with my 20" LCD Cinema display (older plastic surround model, 2 years old). I am now noticing that after I have any window open for longer than a few minutes, when closed, I can see a ghostly remant of it on the Desktop. Same goes for the Desktop folder icons on shut down or restart. It looks exactly like CRT burn-in. Though I never keep my computer on for more than a few hours at a time and rarely ever leave a single window open that long. Any thoughts or suggesstions? I upgraded to a newer graphics card in December, but the issue did not exist until yesterday; could this be the cause?
I also tried resetting the PRAM, but nothing changed. I remember ages ago a remedy for resetting VRAM on my old Performa 630; is that still around and would that help? Many thanks.

No, he says he has a "Clear Enclosure" display, which is ADC only (unless used with the ADC-DVI converter).
Plus his G5 is a Dualie 1.8 and his card is an x800xt, which has direct support for the ADC connector, not DVI.
I think he's talking abut "ghosting" of images, not true "burn-in", which would be present at all times on his display. the ghosting would appear if he has a window that is open with a white background (or other light colored background), and then he closes it to return to a dark colored desktop pattern or moves a dark color filled window on top of the light colored one. then you would see remnants of the light colored window. The ghosting should disappear eventually, but can take some time.
On newer displays, I don't think this is an issue, but I notice it all the time on my 23" ACD "Clear enclosure". Maybe it occurs with age also. I'm hoping to take mine in to the genius Bar and find out if it can be serviced (mine's under AppleCare warranty).

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Do you know if the LCD screen has a bad backlight, or is the screen data drive bad? If it's just the backlight, shine a strong light on the screen, you should be able to see everything, just dim. I can estimate clicking on the Apple menu, then with a strong flashlight, I can easily see the dropdown menu to pick the System Preferences, and then to Displays and mirroring.
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N82 lcd spoil ......wonder can get fix in singapor...

Dam sad , brought n82
last week
and now got one patch of black burn mark located left side below corner !
problem is my screen got scratches just above the burn marks.
what I read from the warrenty , nokia will not cover scratches..this I can accept to pay for the plastic cover of the phone if I wanna get it fix. I curious n82 cover is it available in singapore nokia repair centres?now?
next about the lcd burn mark , I haven;t go my side singapore local repair centres and ask.
what I worry , they will amuse I bang it so cause that portion of the lcd got black patches because above this patches got the scratches.
if due to no choice , have to get it pay to fix the lcd for n82 roughly whats the cost?and the casing of the front .
thanks.I do hope someone in here who work in singapore nokia repair center can give an answer.
I feel dam sad now.

Well, there's always a chance to crack the display, you know
But since N73 Nokias get better protection. BTW I don't know how many people are aware that though N95 8GB has really good screen protection, it has less hard plastic just below the screen - press it and the screen will be affected.
As for the N82 - pressing near the screen borders will not do anything - the plastic is very resistant there. In the middle of the screen, though, applying some medium force will make the protective film touch the screen - but force should be applied anyway.
So for normal use and even some squeezing the pocket, N82 display will be well protected...
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why would cost $700 in Japan and free in America? Isn't Apple the same everywhere? More than that.... 1 year and LCD burns out??? What's up with that!!?
Hi Aaron,
The regular warranty for the iMac is country / region specific. If you read the terms you will see that the user has to obtain the necessary service in the country or region where it was purchased. Only products defined as "portable" (ie Powerbooks, ibooks and iPods) are covered internationally.
(the same applies to AppleCare, by the way. If you had it you would still have to return teh Mac to the country of purchase for service.)
The picture with the motherboard extended iMac G5 Rev A motherboard coverage is a bit more confused, though when I asked for clarification about this from Apple a while back I was told that it, too, required the computer to be returned to the country of purchase.
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Hello,
I use adobe reader to read books regularly. I just have one suggestion when it comes to the app. Is it possible for the app to go completely full screen and hide the navigation buttons on devices that have soft keys such as the Moto X or the Nexus devices?
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Your talking "eReaders" eh.
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Hello to all.
I am a..somewhat happy fresh owner of a X220, model 4287-2SG,in short Core I5, Ultrabase, IPS display, TPM & fingerprint. The ram size is 8GB.
I did not have any fan or whining issues as a lot of people here, but... the fingerprint is somewhat dead. It appears ok in device manager, the Thinkvantage diagnostics show the usb (connection?) to it ok. The problem is that I cannot enroll any fingerprints. The FP worked ok fora while, but after that...it wouldn't be recognized at boot, or in windows(the green light won't turn on when I was suppose to scan my finger. The curios thing is that at that time, the bios authentication by fingerprint and also power on worked ok. At this moment, windows sees the upek device ok, any usb monitoring utilities show it as connected to the usb port, but the lenovo fingerprint software always gives the error(s):"can't enroll user; can't find fingerprint device".
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d) "mounted" the usb device in an vmware win xp and installed the upek protector software; the error was: calibration error(-1080);
e) tried to enroll some fingerprints with fp-demo from ubuntu: when I am supposed to move my finger over the sensor, its green light doesn't turn on so...nothing gets enrolled;
f) flash all bios-es that I could find(1.11, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17)
[you can get 1.17 from:
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http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/8duj07us.exe
don't worry, the bios is in english];
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That would be it.
My questions would be:
a) is the sensor dead? to be onest I've never heard of such a thing, but whatever...
b) is there a way to perform a hardware reset of the sensor?
c) if the sensor is dead, why does windows sees it ok in device manager? ->
d) is it possible that the internal sensor's database is somehow corrupted or/ there is some kind of communication mismatch between the sensor an the systemboard's ..bios/electronics/something? Like...the bios sends unencrypted data, but the sensors waits for encrypted data?
e) if I speak to a lenovo service center, is there any possibility that they send me the part that contains the fingerprint sensor and after i do some tests, I would return the bad part and/or the laptop assuming that the fp sensor is not the problem?
That would be ideal because I prefer not to let anyone disassemble ...my 1300e toy;
f) is there a general hardware reset of the systemboard? I suppose could remove the system battery, but..something more..straightforward?
PS - for those interested, the IPS displays also has burning simptoms, but for now...it's useless to change it. Maybe in 6 months once lenovo changes the lcd manufacturer. To be onest I'm kind of disappointed of the purchase; my old elitebook 8530p had no such problems from the first month and obviously, no lcd burn-in(but it wasn't IPS).
PS 2- sorry for my english, I'm not exactly a native english speaker
Best regards...
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Thanks for the reply!
Nope... standard WIN7 x64 image shipped on the recovery partition.so.no UEFI.
One more ...detail.. in the windows system logs appears an error regarding WUDfrd.sys driver(something like "WUDfrd failed to load for the xxx device", where xxx is the VID unique code corresponding to the fingerprint sensor; the Microsft online help says that this is related to driver/hardware malfunction...As I am the only one that has this problem, I guess it is the last one...
Not a (first) nice experience with Thinkpads...
Best regards...
LE: Authentec/UPEK support's conclusion was short and simple: FP partially dead (technically half dead, must be replaced); Ive contacted lenov support about this issue; I will keep you informed...
2011.07.02 -> Final Edit:
The fingerprint was replaced (actually the palmrest) and everything is ok now. The Lenovo support was very helpfull and I wish th thank them for that. All updates are to date (including windows updates)
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The finerprint is (hardware) faulty if:
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In the ending I would like to thank Lenovo's support for their wonderfull cooperation in resolving this issue and UPEK's support for their fast response and professional attitude regarding this problem.
Thank you all for your time, ideas and responses.
Best regards...

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Hello
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Doc burned in:
#1 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1477936/apple/DSC_0751.jpg (need to make it 100% to see)
#2 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1477936/apple/DSC_0754.jpg (need to make it 100% to see)
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
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