Last night my laptop, while in its padded case, fell from about 3 feet in the air and hit the concrete just right. The screen is the classic all white with a bit of black and some blue hues, classic screen-cracked with 100% functioning everything else.
I slipped an LCD home pc monitor over my open laptop ATM and it works pretty good, but portability and bed-surfing is out of the question.
Assuming the stories were true about it costing more to replace the LCD than it would to buy a new laptop, I was searching for a new one, but then came across this article just now:
http://computershopper.com/laptops/howto/replace-your-laptop-screen
My current laptop is still perfect and loaded with XP, so I have no reason to buy a new one. It's an an HP dv6105us Entertainment Notebook PC, bought it IIRC 3 years and about 3 days ago.
If someone has recently gone through this or just feels like being helpful, I would really appreciate a link or two to a good place to buy my replacement. I know I need the exact info from the back of my LCD, but I haven't gotten that far yet. I'll tinker with it in the next few days, once I have that info, I'll begin more detailed searches to finalize the process.
Just for fun, here's a pic of my "new" setup:
I slipped an LCD home pc monitor over my open laptop ATM and it works pretty good, but portability and bed-surfing is out of the question.
Assuming the stories were true about it costing more to replace the LCD than it would to buy a new laptop, I was searching for a new one, but then came across this article just now:
http://computershopper.com/laptops/howto/replace-your-laptop-screen
My current laptop is still perfect and loaded with XP, so I have no reason to buy a new one. It's an an HP dv6105us Entertainment Notebook PC, bought it IIRC 3 years and about 3 days ago.
If someone has recently gone through this or just feels like being helpful, I would really appreciate a link or two to a good place to buy my replacement. I know I need the exact info from the back of my LCD, but I haven't gotten that far yet. I'll tinker with it in the next few days, once I have that info, I'll begin more detailed searches to finalize the process.
Just for fun, here's a pic of my "new" setup:
