PSP Dead Pixels anyone?

mobileplaza · 01-09-2005 07:23PM #1

anyone suffered any?

just finished charging mine up powered up and noticed one dead pixel! how do i stand as reguard to returning it?? should i just grin and bare it? its only 1 dead pixel that iv noticed so far :mad:

Liquidus · 01-09-2005 07:31PM

no, but id say more dead pixels will appear as they get older?

Sparky · 01-09-2005 07:37PM

ive had mine since may and only have 3, but youd forget about them tbh especially when your playing a fast game like ridge racer

mobileplaza · 01-09-2005 07:44PM

yea ridge racer rocks... really annoyin though! espcially when watchin umd movies!

qz · 01-09-2005 08:08PM

I just got a stuck pixel (stays on one colour) while playing Wipeout, so I'm gonna try download this clip that flashes red green and blue (I think it's those colours), to force the feckin thing out!

Takeshi_Kovacs · 01-09-2005 08:21PM

absolute ****e quailty control, also i think you have to have more than 5 dead pixels, before they will replace screen, although i'm not too sure about that one..

Liquidus · 01-09-2005 08:34PM

well it cuz be that the jap psps screens are sharp and are made in japan and the euro screens are made in china by samsung, which could be of lower quality.

going off the point here but what connecter do i need to hook up my pc to psp, the port is too small for normal usb cable?

qz · 01-09-2005 08:35PM

Liquidus wrote:

going off the point here but what connecter do i need to hook up my pc to psp, the port is too small for normal usb cable?

No it's not, any USB cable will suffice, make sure you're putting it in the right way up!

delly · 01-09-2005 08:38PM

qz wrote:

I just got a stuck pixel (stays on one colour) while playing Wipeout, so I'm gonna try download this clip that flashes red green and blue (I think it's those colours), to force the feckin thing out!

I reckon i'm in the same boat, its stuck on what looks like a green pixel just off the centre of the screen. Where or what is this clip that you speak off?

Also, is it a dead cert that one pixel isn't enough to bring it back?

dregin · 01-09-2005 08:39PM

Yay Japanese!1 I've had mine 6 months and have no dead pixels.

qz · 01-09-2005 08:39PM

delly wrote:

I reckon i'm in the same boat, its stuck on what looks like a green pixel just off the centre of the screen. Where or what is this clip that you speak off?

Also, is it a dead cert that one pixel isn't enough to bring it back?

Towards the end of the first post.

Creamy Goodness · 01-09-2005 08:42PM

i got no dead pixels on my psp (it's a jap one though)

when you're making screens at such a huger production rate (read in the indo that 2million psp's have sold world wide) it's impossible to check every single one for dead pixels.

as regards to the pixels themselves, they will appear from the very start i mean that new ones rarely appear after a long use.

i've heard about that flashing video that's meant to fix stuck pixels, tell us if it works.

with regards to connecting the psp to the pc, you'll need a bog standard usb cable (as stated above) you get these cables with certain mp3 players (iriver's one that i know of) and digital cameras

note not all cables supplied with mp3 players and cameras work.

Liquidus · 01-09-2005 08:42PM

theres a port at the top of psp, but its half the size of normal usb port, so is there a connector, or another port on the psp i cant find

qz · 01-09-2005 08:43PM

Liquidus wrote:

theres a port at the top of psp, but its half the size of normal usb port, so is there a connector, or another port on the psp i cant find

Your cable should look like this.
cable.1.jpg

Creamy Goodness · 01-09-2005 08:44PM

Liquidus wrote:

theres a port at the top of psp, but its half the size of normal usb port, so is there a connector, or another port on the psp i cant find

yes you need a cable that has one end a normal usb and the other fits into that connecter on the psp

i think it's called a "A to B usb lead".

you should be able to get them in peats, maplins or any game shop that sells the psp

Dont be at yourself · 01-09-2005 08:47PM

Available from all good camera shops...

Liquidus · 01-09-2005 08:47PM

yeah i need one of those, been searching for wallpapers for psp, heres a load of em

http://mras.revhost.net/pspbgs/

Creamy Goodness · 01-09-2005 08:48PM

Liquidus wrote:

yeah i need one of those, been searching for wallpapers for psp, heres a load of em

http://mras.revhost.net/pspbgs/

funny i quite like the default wallpaper, well i'd need to as i can't change it.

qz · 01-09-2005 08:49PM

Cremo wrote:

funny i quite like the default wallpaper, well i'd need to as i can't change it.

You can, it's just kinda tricky.

Liquidus · 01-09-2005 08:52PM

for abstact wallpapers

http://themepsp.com/thumbnails.php?album=3

Creamy Goodness · 01-09-2005 08:53PM

well, it's okay for the moment i'm still trying to get use to going around it so i think i'll leave it for the time being

Dont be at yourself · 01-09-2005 08:55PM

Default one changes colour every month, it's pretty cool!

Liquidus · 01-09-2005 08:57PM

so my next purchace will be the cable, and the 1gb sandisk mem stick so i can watch stuff on it

Kevok · 01-09-2005 09:16PM

No dead or stuck pixels.

My DS is the same. Karma at work ater my first LCD monitor was just outside the warrantee for replacement due to dead/stuck pixels.

32mb memory stick is killing me, It can only hold 2 minutes of video at decent quality. Using http://www.pspvideo9.com to convert my "modest" collection of tv shows to psp video. Just waiting for delivery of 2, 1GB sticks.

delly · 01-09-2005 09:17PM

ok, i've downloaded the movie onto my formated memory stick, but as there was no folder marked 'movie', i copied it into the root and every subfolder, but alas the PSP can't find any movie files. Any ideas?

/EDIT found the answer here

Creamy Goodness · 01-09-2005 09:17PM

wow, two sticks :O

godtabh · 01-09-2005 09:22PM

I have one dead pixel (which is blue) just to the left of center.

Its poxy!

qz · 01-09-2005 09:23PM

delly wrote:

ok, i've downloaded the movie onto my formated memory stick, but as there was no folder marked 'movie', i copied it into the root and every subfolder, but alas the PSP can't find any movie files. Any ideas?

Follow the three steps

delly · 01-09-2005 09:28PM

qz wrote:

Follow the three steps

Thanks, but i got a linky up above. Not used to being on dial up compared to dsl in work. It makes looking for answers a whole lot harder

Franky Boy · 01-09-2005 10:01PM

I'm stuck with a small chip in the screen which is really starting to piss me off.

Kevok · 01-09-2005 10:05PM

A chip? Claim it was during shipment and they should replace it. Dead pixels are an excepted production anomaly, a chip is not.

PSP Dead Pixels anyone?

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