Topic: Ants in my VP2 console's screen?! Liquid crystal display leak or blotch? Mold?

[NathanF]

This is my old cabled/wired VP2 console. It has been sitting on a shelf, unplugged and unpowered, for almost five years exactly. It was horizontal, as in flat, with the screen side up and was stored indoors.

Decided that I'd like to use it for a project today and pulled it out to find this screen damage. Frankly, I'm not sure how to refer to it other than ants in the screen. Maybe a liquid crystal "leak"?

Anyway, has anyone seen this before? If so, is there a fix? (I think I know the answer...) It's obviously under the glass, which appears bonded to the LCD and is not removable. The screen otherwise powers up and looks fine apart from the blotch.





Close up with light reflecting so it looks white:


Screen on, and sorry for the five years of dust. This was before cleaning it.


Thanks!

[davidmc36]

I had that when I bought a used console. Poor packing made the screen get hit during transit. And yes. It's permanent.

[johnd]

I agree, that does unfortunately look like a permanently damaged display. But with a bad display it's always worth power cycling the console a couple of times and checking that the internal display cable inside the console is still correctly in place at both ends. But looking at your pictures, I'm not optimistic in this particular case.

[cruff]

That is non-repairable unless you can find a donor unit to swap the display. That failure mode will get worse as time goes on.

[davidmc36]

My damaged unit has not changed. It has been a year or two.