TVs & Streaming
Dead or Stuck Pixels on Your TV? Here Is What Can Be Fixed
Stuck pixels sometimes recover, dead ones do not. Here is how to tell them apart and what manufacturers will accept as a…
Tag: display
Laptops & PCs
PC Not Detecting a Second Monitor? Work Through This Order
A second screen that will not appear is usually a cable, a port that does not carry video, or a display the…
Laptops & PCs
Monitor Colours Look Wrong? Get Them Back to Normal
A washed-out or oddly tinted screen is usually a colour profile, an HDMI range mismatch, or a picture mode. All are fixable…
Laptops & PCs
Laptop Brightness Stuck or Changing on Its Own? Fix It
Brightness keys that do nothing, or a screen that dims by itself. Adaptive brightness and graphics drivers are the usual causes.
Laptops & PCs
Monitor Going Black Randomly? Track Down the Cause
A screen that blanks for a second and comes back is usually a cable or a power saving setting, not a dying…
Phones & Tablets
Phone Screen Won’t Rotate? Check the Lock Before Anything Else
Rotation lock is the cause nine times out of ten. When it is not, a sensor calibration or a single misbehaving app…
Laptops & PCs
PC Won’t Detect a Second Monitor? The Order to Check It
A second screen that stays black is usually a cable, an input source, or a display setting. Here is how to work…
Phones & Tablets
Phone Screen Flickering? How to Tell Software From a Failing Display
A flickering phone screen can be a setting, a rogue app or a dying display. One boot-mode test tells you which, before…
Phones & Tablets
Phone Screen Flickering Randomly? Here’s How to Tell Software From Hardware
A screen that flickers, strobes or briefly goes grey is alarming, but it is software far more often than people assume. Here…