screen broke - what do i do desperately - urgently

[Deleted User]

Hi,

if you decide to have a go at fixing it yourself:

Screen, others will be available, so search around, check out ebay, and this video will show you what's involved, it's not your model but same proceedure.

Sorted for less than £50, save losing your excess.

raq

okay, rang maplins, they don,t do them.
PC world , far too much messing around and wouldn,t give me a rough price over the phone.

just checked ebay - which was the best to be honest. prices go from £115 onwards

did also look at the video and looks pretty simple to install
i got until 2pm this afternoon whether I am going go ahead with the insurance . sooo difficult to choose

macman

Please don't even consider asking PCW/DSG to repair a laptop!

Figment

raq wrote: »

okay, rang maplins, they don,t do them.
PC world , far too much messing around and wouldn,t give me a rough price over the phone.

just checked ebay - which was the best to be honest. prices go from £115 onwards

did also look at the video and looks pretty simple to install
i got until 2pm this afternoon whether I am going go ahead with the insurance . sooo difficult to choose

What do you get for '£115 onwards' on ebay?

Post #22 has a link to a replacement screen for your model for £39

LINK


ETA: There are several screens available for the RV515. Check the screen is the correct one for your laptop before purchase

googler

googler wrote: »

Do you have any other laptops or PCs in the house?

Laptops are made up of component parts, as are desktop PCs. The component that has the DATA you want to work on is the Hard Drive. All else is superfluous to this in an emergency situation like this.

You can take the Hard Drive out of the laptop and install it in another laptop (within limits) and work from it there.

You can install it as a secondary or primary drive in a desktop and work from it there (again with some limitations). You may need adaptors to adapt the wiring in the desktop (for 3.5" drives) to the laptop drive (2.5"), but it's doable.

Do you have a Maplin, PC World or similar close by?

You said it was an emergency because you needed to work with the data on the laptop, but everything seems focused on doing a screen repair. Aren't you considering options to get at the data on the hard drive and actually work with it?

You said you have another laptop, and I suggested you move the drive to that laptop. Have you tried this?

raq

Figment wrote: »

What do you get for '£115 onwards' on ebay?

Post #22 has a link to a replacement screen for your model for £39

LINK


ETA: There are several screens available for the RV515. Check the screen is the correct one for your laptop before purchase

so sorry, yes just seen it. Great price but what am scared of if it,s more to the problem. i.e. inside problems. i have also checked the video link on how to fix the screen, which again looks fine.

i rang our home insurance people and they wasn,t much of a help to be honest. what we really don,t want is for our premium to go really high next year.

raq

googler wrote: »

You said it was an emergency because you needed to work with the data on the laptop, but everything seems focused on doing a screen repair. Aren't you considering options to get at the data on the hard drive and actually work with it?

You said you have another laptop, and I suggested you move the drive to that laptop. Have you tried this?

thanks for the quick reply but really unsure on how to move the drive to the other laptop. My daughters laptop is really slow anyhow.

googler

raq wrote: »

thanks for the quick reply but really unsure on how to move the drive to the other laptop. My daughters laptop is really slow anyhow.

At the risk of repeating myself.... from another of my earlier posts in this thread....

"The other laptop may be slow, but that's to a certain extent a function of its own HDD and what's on it. Place the HDD from the injured laptop in it, and it should run at the speed of the injured laptop (assuming them to have similar RAM memory specs and similar processors)
"

Moving HDDs between laptops is merely a matter of unscrewing a securing screw, perhaps a cover plate and sliding drive in/out of the drive bay.

There's guides on how to do it all over YouTube and other areas of the WWW.

Figment

googler wrote: »

At the risk of repeating myself.... from another of my earlier posts in this thread....

"The other laptop may be slow, but that's to a certain extent a function of its own HDD and what's on it. Place the HDD from the injured laptop in it, and it should run at the speed of the injured laptop (assuming them to have similar RAM memory specs and similar processors)
"

Moving HDDs between laptops is merely a matter of unscrewing a securing screw, perhaps a cover plate and sliding drive in/out of the drive bay.

There's guides on how to do it all over YouTube and other areas of the WWW.

Unless things have changed, moving a hard drive from one machine to another causes untold problems due to hardware differences, unless the machines in question are identical specification.


The OP had the option of connecting the laptop to an external monitor/TV to gain access to the data

macman

Using a £10 caddy connected to another PC or laptop by USB will give you instant data access. But of course you should have a back up of your data on an external drive anyway for just this kind of eventuality. You have got away with it this time, don't trust to luck again-next time if could be hard drive failure.