Replacing laptop screen..............help needed

[Bensars]

Just wondering does anyone have any experience of replacing a laptop screen.

Mrs Bensars dropped the laptop and although the outer screen is intact the liquid display inside is shattered ( similar to a dropped mobile phone ). Although the home insurance has covered replacement cost screens are availale at about £70.

Are these difficult to install ?   Any help appreciated.

[Mhic Easmuint]

If you search on the internet for the service manual for the laptop model you should be able to get step by step instructions on how to replace it. 

[Drumanee 1]

this happened myself,it ended up cheaper to replace the laptop

[Mhic Easmuint]

this happened myself,it ended up cheaper to replace the laptop

Yeah I've done it on a few but it was usually screens from spare old laptops that were used.  any time I priced one it was always over £100 and up to £150 for the new screen so just replaced the laptop in them cases.

[Gnevin]

Just wondering does anyone have any experience of replacing a laptop screen.

Mrs Bensars dropped the laptop and although the outer screen is intact the liquid display inside is shattered ( similar to a dropped mobile phone ). Although the home insurance has covered replacement cost screens are availale at about £70.

Are these difficult to install ?   Any help appreciated.

Had a Dell Engineer place a screen in work . It quite complicated , he had to remove about 30 screws, the hard disk, ram , cables even he had trouble doing it

[aidanmcg33]

I have done it before and it can be very tricky depending on the make and model of the laptop. As Drumanee said it can be cheaper to replace the laptop. However an option that alot of people aren't aware of is to purchase a flat screen monitor and attach the cable to the vga output of your laptop. You can then attach the laptop to the back of the screen. Of course the laptop is no longer portable but at least you would still have a workable computer and with a wireless keyboard and mouse it can be a more affordable and tidy solution.

[stephenite]

Just wondering does anyone have any experience of replacing a laptop screen.

Mrs Bensars dropped the laptop and although the outer screen is intact the liquid display inside is shattered ( similar to a dropped mobile phone ). Although the home insurance has covered replacement cost screens are availale at about £70.

Are these difficult to install ?   Any help appreciated.

Had a Dell Engineer place a screen in work . It quite complicated , he had to remove about 30 screws, the hard disk, ram , cables even he had trouble doing it

Used to do that job for Dell back in the late '90s, and 30 screws would have been manna from heaven. The earlier Latitudes had 107 screws, nightmare putting the thing back together