Category: Spots and Dots

Yellow spots along the edges of a Surface Book 2 screen are usually a hardware problem, not a software bug. Heat or pressure from an aging battery behind the display is the top suspect. A UEFI test tells you which: if the spots show there, Windows is not to blame. When yellow blotches crept into […]

A black spot on your display is usually one of three things: physical pressure damage inside the screen, a dead or stuck pixel, or a software glitch. Pressure damage and dead pixels need a repair or replacement. A software glitch can often be fixed in minutes, for free. Seeing a dark mark appear on your […]

A white spot on your phone screen is usually one of two things: a software dot you can turn off in seconds, or a hardware defect that needs a real fix. The fastest way to know which one you have is a simple screenshot test, explained below. Take a screenshot of your screen right now […]

Seeing an orange mark on your MacBook screen can feel scary, but take a breath first. Not every orange dot on MacBook screen displays means something is broken. There are two very different problems hiding under one search term, and they look nothing alike once you know what to check. A tiny, perfectly round orange […]

Most of the time, a shadow on your monitor comes from a loose or cheap video cable (old VGA cords are the worst offender) or a docking station sitting between your PC and the screen. According to ViewSonic’s own support team, unplugging everything and connecting the monitor straight to your computer fixes it in most […]

A bright or white spot on your iPad screen can be worrying, especially if it shows up out of nowhere. The good news is you can often tell what’s going on in under a minute. A bright spot on an iPad screen is usually a hardware problem, not a software glitch. It often comes from […]

Those white spots on your LCD screen are not a virus or software glitch. They are a hardware problem inside your screen’s backlight layer. The good news: you can identify the cause fast, and one fix works almost every time. Your laptop or monitor uses layers of light and glass to show images. When something […]