Success!!!
I nearly had a stroke the other day when I thought I broke my laptop... in exactly the same manner I broke the previous one. I knocked the monitor against a chair and the monitor's colours went all screwy-- the black parts of images displayed as green and the white parts as pink. No physical damage to be seen and when the output was externally connected to a TV, the image was perfect.
Called a repair guy for a quote and he said it could be anywhere from 80 GBP for labour alone to 250 GBP for everything if a part replacement was required.
Well, I was pretty certain it was just a loose video cable connection so I said fuck that and took apart my laptop myself. Disassembled it, tweaked the cable connection and reassembled it. Fixed it this morning with a borrowed screwdriver, a pair of eyebrow tweezers, a guitar pick, a wee bit of sellotape, and some eyelash glue (good thing I just recently bought some false lashes!). Display is up and working again, like brand new!
Which leads me to believe my old laptop is completely salvageable...
Extremely pleased with saving a potential 250 quid. :D
Called a repair guy for a quote and he said it could be anywhere from 80 GBP for labour alone to 250 GBP for everything if a part replacement was required.
Well, I was pretty certain it was just a loose video cable connection so I said fuck that and took apart my laptop myself. Disassembled it, tweaked the cable connection and reassembled it. Fixed it this morning with a borrowed screwdriver, a pair of eyebrow tweezers, a guitar pick, a wee bit of sellotape, and some eyelash glue (good thing I just recently bought some false lashes!). Display is up and working again, like brand new!
Which leads me to believe my old laptop is completely salvageable...
Extremely pleased with saving a potential 250 quid. :D