Hi All,
My brother in law dropped his Acer 5733 laptop causing some display issues where lines would appear on the screen etc. He asked me to take a look.
I plugged in an external monitor and that worked fine suggesting it was the screen. However on checking the screen and connections they all seemed fine too and I realised that the laptops display was fine when the machine was in pieces, but as soon as it was all screwed back together it was dodgy again. It had taken a fairly decent hit, there were various bits of broken plastic floating around within the case that i removed.
After a bit of trial and error I realised that when the keyboard and top wasn't screwed down, a finger pressed lightly in the middle of where the motherboard would be within the machine whilst it was on, would cause the display issues, when released it was fine. Once it was all screwed together the problem was constant.
I guessed it's an issue with the motherboard (no connections or wires appear to be near this dodgy point) so I took all that out and inspected but I couldn't see any obvious issues. Now it's all back together again and it's now actually worse. No picture at all and nothing on an external monitor either.
Any thoughts? Whilst looking for replacement motherboards I came across a lot of fleabay adverts to fix graphics issues with these laptops, so I'm starting to wonder if there's a known weakness or something?
Thanks in advance,
E-I
My brother in law dropped his Acer 5733 laptop causing some display issues where lines would appear on the screen etc. He asked me to take a look.
I plugged in an external monitor and that worked fine suggesting it was the screen. However on checking the screen and connections they all seemed fine too and I realised that the laptops display was fine when the machine was in pieces, but as soon as it was all screwed back together it was dodgy again. It had taken a fairly decent hit, there were various bits of broken plastic floating around within the case that i removed.
After a bit of trial and error I realised that when the keyboard and top wasn't screwed down, a finger pressed lightly in the middle of where the motherboard would be within the machine whilst it was on, would cause the display issues, when released it was fine. Once it was all screwed together the problem was constant.
I guessed it's an issue with the motherboard (no connections or wires appear to be near this dodgy point) so I took all that out and inspected but I couldn't see any obvious issues. Now it's all back together again and it's now actually worse. No picture at all and nothing on an external monitor either.
Any thoughts? Whilst looking for replacement motherboards I came across a lot of fleabay adverts to fix graphics issues with these laptops, so I'm starting to wonder if there's a known weakness or something?
Thanks in advance,
E-I
