Chances of fixing this?

Dougiebabe2003 · 28 Apr 2008 at 21:03

Hi all,

Know someone who has a laptop I can have for free.

Laptop completely works when hooked up-to a monitor.

The only thing wrong with it is the screen. It works as you can see the outline of what you are doing on the screen but the backlight doesn't work.

She dropped it and it's never worked since.

Anyone reckon this can be repaired or would it be a new screen?

Cheers, Doug.

beermonster · 28 Apr 2008 at 21:26

could just require an inverter this powers the backlight around £10-20 or the screen itself, around £70, obviously these would require labour ontop if you take it to a repair place, what make and model is it.

peetee · 29 Apr 2008 at 01:57

its free, take it and have a fiddle.

Solus · 29 Apr 2008 at 21:31

Might be lucky and the inverter cable might just be loose, rather than the inverter/screen actually being damaged.

Just take the screen surround off and check the cable is inserted correctly in to the rectangular board at the bottom of the screen.

Dougiebabe2003 · 5 May 2008 at 15:56

Cheers for all the replies!

I now have the laptop which is:

HP Pavilion zv5000

It's nothing really amazing but it will do me and the g/f to browse interweb in bed.

I have taken off the surround to the screen and found nothing to be unpluged.

There was a wire that was split that goes into the metal frame behind the monitor... I'm guessing this is the antenna for the wireless (which doesn't work since the drop)

The screen is still displaying a picture but without a backlight is verrrrry hard to see.

There is a big cable going into the monitor (guessing data) and two smaller cables (white and pink) going into the bottom of the monitor, are the two smaller ones the backlight? They come off this:

Could the above be broken?

I'm hoping for an easy-ish fix and if it's not to easy what are the chances of me being able to get a replacment monitor? (I guess it's impossible to reaplace a backlight?)

Cheers again, Doug.

beermonster · 5 May 2008 at 17:30

yeah the pink and white powers the tube in the lcd, quite high voltage too, it could be the inverter in the picture which if broken will need replacing, or it could be the tube in the lcd not normally replaceable, i have tried it once but failed as they are too fragile and hard to extract. maybe try a multimeter on the end of the inverter? if current is there it would figure the screens broken.

the grey and black wires are for the wifi antenna, if one is split the other should still work.

Dougiebabe2003 · 5 May 2008 at 20:35

Cheers again BeerMonster

I tried a multimeter on the points and got nothing so have now hunted down a new inverter for under a tenner

Will report back if he works or not

As for the wireless, should that still work ok-ish then? It didn't seem to want to turn on last night and I was thinking of ordering a usb or PCMCIA wireless card...

Cheers again, Doug.

beermonster · 5 May 2008 at 22:02

they have a MAIN and an AUX but only need one cable to work, the other is just a backup but if its the MAIN is giving poor signal maybe disconnect it from the card, usually under a panel on the base.