Sorry for my late response and if the answer doesn't really help. In all honesty, I've never heard of dead pixels growing in size other than maybe your monitor is loosely wired, but usually green lines appear when that happens. You can always check to see if anything will happen when you run this test. http://www.jscreenfix.com/applet.php...280&height=800 Just press F11 for full screen so that it hits your entire monitor. You'll also, probably, want to set the page at your monitors width and height.

If you decide to do it tell us if anything happens or if you've already resolved the problem, then great!