Laptop screen suddenly ruined?

tronator

robgoingcrazy wrote: »

So I just have to throw £300 away, ...

Did you even bother to read other people's replies?

securityguy

robgoingcrazy wrote: »

As others have said, they make laptops flimsier these days

They also make them massively cheaper. A laptop for £300 is not going to be built to the same standard as a corporate tank. In other news, just because you can drive your Land Rover over the kerb without damage, that doesn't mean your little Kia will survive it more than once or twice.

robgoingcrazy

tronator wrote: »

Did you even bother to read other people's replies?

Please don't be rude to me I'm having a lousy enough time as it is.

The £300 means that I owe Argos £300 in January for this laptop. I do not have £50-100 AT ALL to pay for a new screen and get it fitted (I would have to pay someone, I don't know how to do it). Surely also getting it fitted would void the warranty and therefore if something else went wrong I'd still be out of pocket.

My only solution is to get a new one on my Argos card, and hope in 12 months I an pay it off - that is what I meant about the £300. Either that or stick with this through the televiso n but my back is already getting sore.

Ok, I must have done something then, I still can't recall doing anything different from what I've always done and feel really uncomfortable being told I am some kind of cack handed idiot because I am not pne. There are far more heavy handed people than me around but I don't hear of laptop screens breaking daily, I think this was just some kind of bad luck which I've had my fair share of in the last couple of weeks.

So can you direct me to manufacturers instructions on the correct way to open a laptop and what not to do, and I will follow this procedure to the letter if I can get this one replaced or fixed?

I'll have to try to muddle through with it on a monitor for now.

Mista_C

Putting aside the possibility you did this by opening the laptop from somewhere other than the top-middle...

I recently had a similar laptop in for repair. Chap swore he'd not done anything that could have damaged the screen.
On opening the lid section, to get the model of the screen, I found the screen support rod (goes from the hinge along the side of the screen to prevent pressure causing damage) had snapped. This in turn had caused the screen to flex while closing and ultimately crack.

securityguy

robgoingcrazy wrote: »

Please don't be rude to me I'm having a lousy enough time as it is.

The £300 means that I owe Argos £300 in January for this laptop. I do not have £50-100 AT ALL to pay for a new screen and get it fitted (I would have to pay someone, I don't know how to do it). Surely also getting it fitted would void the warranty and therefore if something else went wrong I'd still be out of pocket.

Why don't you ask Asus themselves how much they would charge you, which obviously would not affect your warranty?

http://www.asus.com/uk/support/Service-Center/United%20Kingdom

But I really can't understand your objection to spending fifty quid on a screen and getting it fitted.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/asus-laptop-screen

Do you seriously think that a subsequent warranty claim would involve a forensic examination of the fitting screws to see if they've been moved? Do you think that fitting a new windscreen to your car invalidates the warranty on the engine?

GwylimT

This recently happened to my work laptop which is hp, it was playing a slideshow and I heard a pop sound come from my laptop and almost the whole screen was like yours above, it has happened to two other members of staff, we've only had these laptops since September!