Replace a laptop screen?
 

So mrs. gleff and I are heading off for the airport in a few minutes and she tips her laptop off the couch onto the hardwood floor and it hits in a way that has cracked something inside the screen of her HP Pavilion dv1000.

Is there any way to get a replacement screen? and quickly? Either in the DC area, in MIA over the next few days, or ...?

Any help much appreciated!

Of course the other option is connecting the laptop via a USB cable to a monitor, pulling all the files off, and buying a new laptop. But if it's doable to replace the screen on this 1 year old machine that would be ideal.

Thanks,
Gary

It's doable, but I don't know how to get a replacement that fast.

http://www.getpartsonline.com/ltn140w1-l01.html

$199+$42 for overnight shipping. But with that part you'd need to replace it yourself. I've done it before, it is doable, but you NEED to know what you are doing. Best thing is to find someone you know who is capable of making a repair like that (NOT something like the BestBuy geeksquad...)

Edit: this is the BrightView version of the screen, make sure that if you order, you get the correct one!

I replaced the screen on a thinkpad a few years ago. Grabbed the part off ebay. The removal and replacement took about 2 hours. I think I could have done it in 15 minutes but I was afraid of missing something so I took it real slow. Try to find a diagram of the screen connections before you start or even replacement procedure if it is out there.

The only tight spot I had was with the brightness connections -- on the T600 I had there was a mechanical slider that took a few tries until I got it seated properly. Go slow--you can do it.

Back up the hard drive first in case you fail and have to send it out for professional repair...

make sure you have everything you need too.

The right sized screw drivers, nut driver, whatever you need, the last thing you want to do is to have it all apart and need one size you don't have. Download the service manual to be sure.

(starting at pg 141 of this document)

I've done it on a few Dell Inspirons and older Toshiba Tecras.

Not THAT tough, IF you are mechanically inclined and are familiar with various bulkhead connectors and odd ribbon ("connectorless") connectors.

Perhaps this would be easier if the OP buys an entire lid assembly off of eBay.

You mean a VGA cable, right? Connect the laptop to a spare monitor (or borrow one from a desktop system), If the new screen doesn't come up automatically on your monitor, press "function" plus the function key marked LCD/CRT (or marked like that pictographically) until the monitor comes up. On my Dell i600m it's the F8 key, so I would press and hold the "Function key" and press and release F8, wait a minute to see if it comes up, if not, repeat. Usually, it should just come up by itself as a duplicate copy of your main screen, which of course, you can't see since it's damaged, but the default mode is what you want. If it doesn't come up by itself, try the function key, giving it several seconds to initialize the adaptor to get in dual screen mode between attempts. The settings are usually laptop LCD only, external monitor only and both LCD and external monitor on. The key sequence should cycle through those three modes.

-David

Proabably late - but use the exteranl VGA port in the interim as this will allow access and then haveti fixed or take the advice and try fixing your self when you have time