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Gateway M320 Broken Screen
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Ben Myers typed on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:09:33 -0500: BillW50 wrote: In , Ben Myers typed on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:25:27 -0500: the wharf rat wrote: In article , Justin wrote: Should I get the entire LCD screen plus the plastic trim to fix the line and broken hinge? Kill two birds with one bullet? Laptops almost always decompose into a top unit consisting of the lcd screen and related components and the bottom unit consisting of everything else :-) You can usually buy one or the other on the used market. Replacing the entire unit at once is much easier than taking either one apart and replacing a sub-assembly, so try to buy an entire top lid, plastic, LCD, and all. Agreed. Taking apart a laptop LCD screen is a tedious and time-consuming effort. And then there is getting it back together. I guess it is all relative. If you are replacing LCDs all of the time, it seems pretty easy. Although I guess your mind is running in that auto pilot mode and you don't notice it being so tedious anymore. grin The line is possibly caused by a kink in one of the cables going to the screen... Ben Myers Yes and since the hinges are broken, that cable probably gets pulled on a lot too. No! I am right on the money. Disassembly of most any laptop screen is tedious because one has to remove teeny-tiny screws, You think those screws are teeny, you should see the screws for my Ultra USB 2.5 portable hard drive. As it makes the screws in your glasses you wear look huge. grin pop out (and eventually replace) screw covers, Speaking of which, I need to find a replacement for these. As once removed, they have a habit of not staying back there for the long haul. As within a few weeks or months, they start to fall back out again. remove the front bezel (often made of thin fragile plastic), gently remove the screen from the housing, disconnect and connect cables and inverter. If you can do this all in 10 minutes or less with ANY brand of laptop, you're awfully good. 10 minutes sounds about right for both removal and have the new one installed. Although I have never timed it. I can if you would like the next one I do. Each and every brand has its own idiosyncracies of LCD disassembly. Unless you are doing the same or similar models day after day, no way can you do it in auto pilot mode, so quit being a royal cantankerous pain in the ass. We are talking about the Gateway MX models. There must be hundreds of different MX models out there. And if you know how one of them comes apart, you know how to take virtually all of them apart. Given the choice, which is infrequent, I would far rather drop in a complete LCD screen than tear down the assembly... Ben Myers It is almost the same either way to me. Why which brands seems harder for you? -- Bill Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) - Windows XP SP2 |
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Gateway M320 Broken Screen
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BillW50 typed on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:54:19 -0600: In , Ben Myers typed on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:09:33 -0500: remove the front bezel (often made of thin fragile plastic)... You know, more thinking about this. I think it feels more fragile than you think it is. As I keep lots of spare parts and I am not so careful as I used to be. And I am really surprised how much bending they can really take. The only stuff which is what I would call is fragile would be from the mid 90's and earlier. Take the old Toshiba T1900 series for example in the mid 90's. As the bottom shell needed to be split just to get to the hard drive. And you had to be really careful when splitting it, as it would crack very easy (it was very brittle). Although plastics today seem so much different. As they can flex far much more than the older stuff. And maybe you are just being too careful and thus why you are taking longer to disassemble? I had a couple of DVDs out of hundreds that wouldn't burn correctly. I threw them in a junk box and to use them for something (make a clock or something). Well later I decided to throw them away and I was going to just snap them in half. Well I bent them over 90° and they just wouldn't snap in two. But rather they popped right back in shape. I was really impressed! I think I threw them back in my junk box. grin -- Bill Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) - Windows XP SP2 |
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Gateway M320 Broken Screen
On 12/23/09 3:26 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In , Justin typed on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:20:58 -0500: On 12/23/2009 10:35 AM, BillW50 wrote: In , Justin typed on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:30:43 -0500: Hi folks, I have an old Gateway M320 with a line through the screen. Here are a picture of the line - obviously I need to replace the screen. http://www.imagebam.com/image/ad322960885145 I know its not the video drivers since the line is there before the OS loads. My first question is, what part number do I need to replace the screen? I searched eBay for M320 LCD and I get some results with and without the external plastic trim. Hi Justin! Well that could be the LCD, video cable, or video card on the motherboard. Does it look okay on an external monitor? If so, it there is a good chance that another LCD will take care of it. But no guarantees. Yes, it looks fine on an external monitor. Should I replace the cable first? Can I check just the cable? I should probably download a service manual. I believe the cable is part of the LCD anyway on that one. And I don't think the Gateway service manuals are available online anymore. Oh wait, some are still there. And the ones that are not, I believe you can request them through email. And yes, that would be a good idea. Then there is the broken plastic on the rear of the hinges - thanks to somebody picking up the machine by the screen. Several times here are the pictures of each hinge. What do I need to replace that? http://www.imagebam.com/image/bd140260885151 and http://www.imagebam.com/image/3c46c160885152 Should I get the entire LCD screen plus the plastic trim to fix the line and broken hinge? Kill two birds with one bullet? Yes most definitely. I've never seen the Gateway hinges break there. You lucked out. As usually they break off from the bottom clamshell. And it is usually only the left one. And the old fix was to replace the whole bottom case. And used prices were outrages. Although the prices has dropped a lot since one bright guy has manufactured an aluminum block that screws into the video port socket. Like this one, eBay # 320466252183. They didn't break. They were broken. I have a Macbook Pro now and the person who broke the damn thing by picking it up by the screen isn't allowed near my machines anymore. Problem solved. Lol That was a smart idea. ;-) Speaking about lifting up a machine by the screen, which is usually a bad thing to do. But I noticed these Asus EeePC 700 series netbooks, this practice is just fine. As the lid and the hinges can support the weight many times over the weight of the netbook itself. Those Netbooks are lightweight enough that its probably OK to do that. I don't know about the other ones with larger screens than the 7 inch displays. But those 7 inch are much smaller than the lid and have the speakers on both sides of the screen. And 7 inch LCDs are so much lighter too. My plan is to get it into somewhat decent shape and eBay it Careful! Whatever you spend on it in parts, you may not get back in reselling it. I noticed just in the last year, used laptop prices have really dropped. Although the parts, no so much. I guess all of those newer laptops prices are getting cheaper and cheaper is causing this. Yeah, I know. I need to keep that in check. It might be more worth it just to replace the drive and sell it with the broken screen. Open it up internationally and let some sap in Pakistan buy it. - or use it as a Linux machine. I wouldn't mind having a POS laptop that I can take somewhere and not care about. That would be a good idea too. ;-) The hard drive went bac on this thing two years ago, and I'm int he process of getting another one. I also repalced the keyboard for a whole $7.00. That is a great price for a keyboard. And if you don't move laptops and use them like a desktop. The hard drives seems to last forever. Although using them as portable devices, their life really varies. One of the pluses when installing a SSD drive as the moving around doesn't effect them. I got a 120GB hard drive for $30. the keyboard was direct from China - it tok a month to get here So in summary, I should look for a cheap LCD assembly off eBay. The cheapest one I found was $86 off eBay. I tried to make an offer but he declined. $86 is more than half the value of the entire machine. I'll wait a bit and keep looking, maybe somethign will turn up after Christmas. Well if you are patient long enough, you might find one around 50 bucks. But that doesn't happen too often. I waited a month for the keyboard - I'm patient! |
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