Help with a faulty laptop

[rhino34567]

I think it's the connector that is fucked now. One of the tiny little prongs or whatever they're called is bent and I cant get anything to come up on the screen. Hope the screen isn't fucked as if it is there'll be no point fixing it.

How badly bent? You can still get it straightened up in most cases. If it's too small for your fingers, try with a credit card.

[hilariousandco]

I think it's the connector that is fucked now. One of the tiny little prongs or whatever they're called is bent and I cant get anything to come up on the screen. Hope the screen isn't fucked as if it is there'll be no point fixing it.

if the screen is fucked, you could easily buy a new panel.. easy to replace. or you could take the screen out of a broken laptop and see if that works.

Cheapest on ebay are like £60. Be better off just buying a new one (which I still might do).

How badly bent? You can still get it straightened up in most cases. If it's too small for your fingers, try with a credit card.

Not ridiculously so, just a little. I'll try bending it back into shape later. How do I find out what sort of replacement connecter I need?

[beetcoin]

I think it's the connector that is fucked now. One of the tiny little prongs or whatever they're called is bent and I cant get anything to come up on the screen. Hope the screen isn't fucked as if it is there'll be no point fixing it.

if the screen is fucked, you could easily buy a new panel.. easy to replace. or you could take the screen out of a broken laptop and see if that works.

Cheapest on ebay are like £60. Be better off just buying a new one (which I still might do).

How badly bent? You can still get it straightened up in most cases. If it's too small for your fingers, try with a credit card.

Not ridiculously so, just a little. I'll try bending it back into shape later. How do I find out what sort of replacement connecter I need?

how much are laptops in the UK anyways? probably something like 15% higher than in the U.S. i'm guessing. suckers, your prices are higher than your former colonies  

[Cryptopher]

It sounds to me like the cutting out was potentially a short circuit, assuming that you were just tinkering with the laptop without any earthing gear.

As for the situation you find yourself in, I would consider replacing the laptop. Unless it is worth quite a bit and is otherwise fine, I would say that it is false economy/too much hassle to sort it.

Sell the machine on eBay/Craigslist/Gumtree as faulty, and buy a new machine that fits your needs. You can pick up pretty good laptops cheap these days, and you will be pleasantly surprised with how much people pay for faulty goods on eBay.

Hope that helps!

[hilariousandco]

I think it's the connector that is fucked now. One of the tiny little prongs or whatever they're called is bent and I cant get anything to come up on the screen. Hope the screen isn't fucked as if it is there'll be no point fixing it.

if the screen is fucked, you could easily buy a new panel.. easy to replace. or you could take the screen out of a broken laptop and see if that works.

Cheapest on ebay are like £60. Be better off just buying a new one (which I still might do).

How badly bent? You can still get it straightened up in most cases. If it's too small for your fingers, try with a credit card.

Not ridiculously so, just a little. I'll try bending it back into shape later. How do I find out what sort of replacement connecter I need?

how much are laptops in the UK anyways? probably something like 15% higher than in the U.S. i'm guessing. suckers, your prices are higher than your former colonies  

Depends. Cheapest is around £200 for an compact Acer one, but from £300-500 is what you can expect on average to pay. Obviously that's not including macbooks and shit.

[beetcoin]

It sounds to me like the cutting out was potentially a short circuit, assuming that you were just tinkering with the laptop without any earthing gear.

As for the situation you find yourself in, I would consider replacing the laptop. Unless it is worth quite a bit and is otherwise fine, I would say that it is false economy/too much hassle to sort it.

Sell the machine on eBay/Craigslist/Gumtree as faulty, and buy a new machine that fits your needs. You can pick up pretty good laptops cheap these days, and you will be pleasantly surprised with how much people pay for faulty goods on eBay.

Hope that helps!

probably not worth it to sell on ebay.. as shipping the laptop itself would cost him $15 or whatever that is in pounds.

I think it's the connector that is fucked now. One of the tiny little prongs or whatever they're called is bent and I cant get anything to come up on the screen. Hope the screen isn't fucked as if it is there'll be no point fixing it.

if the screen is fucked, you could easily buy a new panel.. easy to replace. or you could take the screen out of a broken laptop and see if that works.

Cheapest on ebay are like £60. Be better off just buying a new one (which I still might do).

How badly bent? You can still get it straightened up in most cases. If it's too small for your fingers, try with a credit card.

Not ridiculously so, just a little. I'll try bending it back into shape later. How do I find out what sort of replacement connecter I need?

how much are laptops in the UK anyways? probably something like 15% higher than in the U.S. i'm guessing. suckers, your prices are higher than your former colonies  

Depends. Cheapest is around £200 for an compact Acer one, but from £300-500 is what you can expect on average to pay. Obviously that's not including macbooks and shit.

here in the united colonies of america, you can get an 4th gen i5 15" laptop for $400.

[Cryptopher]

Depends. Cheapest is around £200 for an compact Acer one, but from £300-500 is what you can expect on average to pay. Obviously that's not including macbooks and shit.

What is your usage? If it is just for using the web and documents then I would go for one of those smaller machines with the SSD, you will notice how zippy they are instantly.

It's a nice cheap replacement that should serve you well. You can get some pretty decent machines for £300 or too, but again you will be limited in what you can use them for.

I'm a MacBook Pro user, I don't think that I could move away from this now, maybe to a *nix OS, but never to Windows.