New screen time?

Dreadi · 12 Apr 2012 at 15:20

Been passed a laptop by a bloke I know, its a Dell inspiron 1545. Said the screen was knackered and he couldnt get it working with an external monitor. Works fine for me with an external monitor and dells diagnostic program gave no ram or gpu errors so is it new screen time or could it be something else? It Still works fine and the picture below shows the display.

TheHitMan-1973 · 12 Apr 2012 at 16:10

Look on ebay or give Dell a ring , or do a search via google

Dreadi · 12 Apr 2012 at 17:37

TheHitMan-1973 said:
Look on ebay or give Dell a ring , or do a search via google

Gosh, thanks so much for your wonderful help, off you pop!

Makhaira · 12 Apr 2012 at 17:59

They use a ribbon connector to link to the motherboard, and there are detailed instructions for disassembly on the dell website. Since you'll have to dismantle it to fix it anyways, it would be worth seeing if there is a loose connection somewhere, since that can sometimes cause a failure like that. Failing that, you're probably looking at replacing the entire screen unit, which I believe is common across all the Inspiron 15x range if you're after something you can buy "for spares"