XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10
From: G6JPG@255soft.uk
On 2025/7/17 13:50:19, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 17/07/2025 12:00, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-07-17 11:16, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
[]
>>> (Personally, after checking for switch/cable problem, I'd be
>>> expecting to replace the display [even though working] and backlight
>>> all as one sealed unit, as that's easier in my [very limitd]
>>> experience - but check [I'm not sure how] that the inverter, if it's
>>> that sort of display, is included in the display module, or is OK if
>>> not. And, again based on very limited experience: get the part number
>>> off the existing module. I found doing that produced much cheaper
>>> modules than searching for "display for a ".)
>>
>> I don't feel up to doing it myself, I would need to find a shop
>> willing to do it. The laptop has seen 14 years of service, so whether
>> this is worthwhile I have my doubts. It was a good purchase and served
>> me well. Maybe cheaper to buy something else.
It's not hard, just fiddly (there's a YouTube how-to-replace-the-display
for more or less every model of laptop in existence) - and there's a
great feeling of satisfaction when it works! In my case I knew it was
the display, as I'd tripped and fallen on it, and it was now displaying
just vertical and horizontal lines )-: - well illuminated, so the
backlight was fine, it was just easier to replace the whole sealed
module than trying to separate them. (I still have the old one - there
are plenty of articles on how to make a light panel out of them, though
my tuit shortage suggests I'll never do so.)>>
> The second hand market is a awash with out-of-service-contract ex
> corporate machines bought for Covid.
Trouble is, Carlos wants good speakers, and that's probably hard to
judge online - unless he can find one of the same model that's broken in
some other way (no HD, smashed keyboard, etc.) but with a working display.
[]> IN all case however spending a day learning to take one apart to find
> the problem, and order the part and another day to reassemble it when I
> can get a new better 'preloved one' for less than $300 is questionable
IIRR, the replacement - new - module for the one I smashed was
thirtysomething pounds. They do vary widely though. As I mentioned,
looking for "display for a " produced plenty of hits but
they were a _lot_ more expensive than looking for the specific module
number I got from the module itself once I'd opened the laptop lid.
(That also made sure I got the right one: it's possible any given laptop
model might have used different displays during its production run,
though one would _hope_ interchangeably so.)>
> Especially if it has a board fault. I have not got the gear -
> microscopes, tweezers, hot air guns, infra red cameras - that seem
> necessary to diagnose faults, nor yet access to a bin of scrap boards
> to pirate for a component whose value is unknown and on a machine with
> no circuit diagram.
I was lucky - didn't need anything more than fine screwdriver(s).>
> I think the pro laptop fixers charge a flat fee on the basis its all
> labour anyway, if you have scrap laptops for parts, that you couldn't
> repair with blown CPUs or GPUs.
>
> Three hours of UK average labour rate nets me a new refurbed laptop.
> Go figure
>
Can't remember how long it took me: might have been as much as three
hours. Was the first time I'd dismantled a lid.
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
One of my tricks as an armchair futurist is to "predict" things that
are already happening and watch people tell me it will never happen.
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