broken samsung chromebook screen

unclemax

Hi, I got a samsung chromebook for my teenage daughter not long ago, think ti was about £225 new. Anyhow she did a classic teenager, left it on the floor then trod on it breaking he screen. Sent it to a local PC repair place and they say the exact type of replacement screen is not available anywhere and would cost £150 to replace anyway! So I looked at claiming on household contents and will cost £75 excess plus premiums will go up.

Does anyone else have any suggestions? Any good places to get it fixed?

AshleyPomeroy

unclemax wrote: »

Does anyone else have any suggestions? Any good places to get it fixed?

You don't say which model, but it seems that the panels are available on eBay for £30 or so. Judging by this video the replacement process is surprisingly easy.

I replaced the screen on my Asus 1005HA a while back and it wasn't much bother to swap the panels, the difficulty involved getting all the plastic back together.

The big worry is that something else might be snapped inside the screen bezel or indeed that the hard drive is toast. Does the machine turn on and display images through the DVI port?

securityguy

I had to swap the screen on a cheap netbook which I dropped. Unfortunately, cheap laptops tend to be flexible, there was a USB stick in the case with the netbook, and it hit the ground (actually, the marble floor of the foyer of the National Gallery) stick-down; the USB stick pushed into the lid, which in turn smashed the screen.

I replaced the screen, which was a cheap part and a thirty minute job. I then bought an appropriately sized piece of carbon fibre from a place that sells parts to radio control modellers and young men keen to spoil the look of their cars, and araldited it to the lid. That lid is never, ever flexing again.

chunter

You'll need to open it up to get the exact model no of the screen.

I had a nightmare trying to get a replacement screen for a chromebook. Gave up eventually. There are any amount of different screen sizes and model numbers and half a dozen different suppliers couldn't even recommend a compatible. replacement. Cheapest i could find was £150 out of America or 100 quid off some crowd in China. Minefield. good luck.

andydiysaver

doable though - I can fix them and I've got big man hands - key is precision, and patience. those two words. get some cups put each type of screw in each, remember each one and where from, then just do it backwards to finish off. fiddly as anything but PC world told me my mrs broken screen was 50 quid just to look at and then parts, ...so got screen off ebay 30 quid, saved at least 20 quid, probably 70 quid..


whatever it costs to get a replacement, prolly double that to get someone to replace it. if that price approaches a new gizmo, cut the losses - but then if you sell on your broken gizmo there are those out there buying them for that reason, fitting and parts! So they are out there!