refurbishing a laptop

Postrefurbishing a laptop by **Niz To The Biz** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:18 pm

I'm buying a laptop from a friend for £100 it a pretty ace toshiba. Now the proplem is there is no display (proplem with the screen) I think it would cost about £90 to fix. Jusy wondering if anyone thought this would be a good idea

PostRe: refurbishing a laptop by **Glowy69** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:42 pm

A screen will cost more than £90 to fix.

PostRe: refurbishing a laptop by **Niz To The Biz** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:53 pm

glowy69 wrote:A screen will cost more than £90 to fix.

How much?

PostRe: refurbishing a laptop by **Glowy69** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:06 pm

It depends whats wrong with it, when my laptop screen broke, due to liquid being spilt. It cost upwards of £200.

I didnt pay it of course, Im not that stupid. :shifty:

PostRe: refurbishing a laptop by **Green Gecko** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:13 pm

If the extremely thin ribbon tape that connects the display adapter on the motherboard to the screen is faulty, that would cost hundreds to fix as they are very unique, delicate and rare parts, as would the panel itself if that is damaged. Unless you fancy carefully studying an entire circuit board for faulty solder joints or blown capacitors.....

Probably not worth it.

You could however try connecting it to an external display if the specs are any good.

PostRe: refurbishing a laptop by **Harry Bizzle** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:41 am

You should probably have it looked at prior to buying it.

PostRe: refurbishing a laptop by **Niz To The Biz** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:39 am

Harry Bizzle wrote:You should probably have it looked at prior to buying it.

I've not bought it. But I asked him to take it to a computer shop and get them to see what they thinks wrong before I buy

PostRe: refurbishing a laptop by **satriales** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:49 am

When my screen broke I opened it up just to get some part numbers and when I put it back together it magically started working again.

It depends on what's wrong. Sometimes the ribon cable comes loose, or it could be more serious.

If you want a cheap PC, just plug a monitor into it :lol:

It would probably be cheaper that getting the laptop fixed.

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