Chances of fixing this?

[Dougiebabe2003]

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.

 

[Dougiebabe2003]

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.

 

[Dougiebabe2003]

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.