Hope someone can help me out here. I was using the Omega Radeon drivers to center my image on the screen. After a couple of adjustments I got dead pixels (stuck at on, 3 blue lines running slightly diagonal towards the lower portion of the screen). This is at 1280x1024 @ 75Hz. They go away at any other resolution or refresh rate. I was wondering if anyone knows whether I'm stuck with these dead pixels or if there was something I could do short of returning the monitor. I'm using a 19" Optiquest Q95 with a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro. It's overclocked to 425/634Mhz (could this have anything to do with it??). Drivers are from Omega and based on ATI's Catalyst 3.9.

Yes, it could be due to the overclock...return the settings to stock and see if the problem persists. Next, try a different monitor and finally, return the monitor when you're convinced it's not the video subsystem causing the problem. Skip

you don't have dead pixels, they are either dead or they aren't they don't come and go with screen resolution. This type of behavior is common with poorly written or incorrect drivers. Your screen is perfectly fine.

Thanks Tom, I was wondering about that too, either the pixels are dead or they're not - I just didn't stop to think it might be the drivers.. So I loaded ATI's 3.9 drivers and yup, no more dead pixels, even when overclocked.. I'm glad it wasn't hardware.. Thanks guys!