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Hi, Maybe one of you guys with more tech knowledge than I can help me out. Earlier today, I dropped something on my laptop. The screen immediately scrambled, and it has stayed that way. It is hard to describe what it looks like. It has a white area and black area and there are lines mostly vertical and a few horizontal. I tried turning the laptop on and off. I removed the battery and turned it back on and got the same scrambled screen. I was able to hook the laptop an external monitor via an HDMI cable. The picture on the external monitor looks fine. The laptop seems to operate fine. I don’t seem to have any problems with using connected to the external monitor(I am posting this from the laptop in question). Any ideas what could be causing this weirded out screen? Any advice on how to fix it?

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Sounds like the layers of laminate within the monitor glass have cracked and that is why it looks so funky. I am not an expert by any means, but I have seen it a few times when I worked for Ford Motor co. We had laptops in the shop for diag and every so often one would take a tumble and need repair.

Depending upon the model, replacement parts can be found and the unit repaired; screens can be fairly simple to replace if you are handy. The alternative would be a laptop shop, but then you would need to weigh cost of repair vs replacement of the laptop.

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from what you describe Warmbler mate, one69chev is correct - you’ll need a new screen (or continue to use the laptop hooked up to an external monitor).

I’ve no idea on US prices - but if you were here in the UK a new laptop screen (standard 15.4") would cost around £35-50 on ebay, and if you don’t want to fit it yourself^, expect to pay about £30-45 for labour to fit it by a computer engineer/repairman.

^ = it can be very fiddly to do - and you don’t want break the screen bezel (they are VERY flimsy) or snag any cables etc - and some laptops require the keyboard to be removed to get at the wiring to the laptop screen too.

 

There are usually 2 differing types of screen - both have different connections - so anyone needing to order a new screen will likely want to have a look at the laptop first to make sure they order the correct type.

It may be worth typing in your model of laptop into youtube to see how others have replaced their screens etc too.

Good luck with it mate

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Do you think I can use it hooked up to the external monitor longterm? Will it further damage the computer if not repaired?

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You could, if you don’t mind using it that way. It shouldn’t do any further damage to the laptop if you keep the screen shut.

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Well, I have to keep the lid open. It is kinda difficult to operate the keyboard with the lid shut.

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You don’t have an extra spare keyboard lying around?

Also, there’s no problem with keeping the lid open. It just looks kind of weird, with the screen in a condition like that.

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Well, I have to keep the lid open. It is kinda difficult to operate the keyboard with the lid shut.

On some laptops you can remove the screen from the rest of the laptop (you’ll have to take care removing the hinges and wiring from the screen) - in essence just having a ‘chunky keyboard’ with hdmi or vga cable from it going to the external monitor.

Looks a little weird - but certainly nothing wrong with it 😃

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Depending on what all you use it for you can get a cheap acer laptop at Wal-Mart for less than a hundred bucks these days.

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Yeah, the screen is a goner but the good news is that you’ll be fine using an external screen for an extended period of time. Not really a big issue aside from losing the portability option.

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Depending on what all you use it for you can get a cheap acer laptop at Wal-Mart for less than a hundred bucks these days.

The thing to watch out for is the less expensive laptops can have a pitifully tiny amount of memory, and no expansion slots on the motherboard. (Even the battery can be hard wired.) The HP I bought in a hurry last year for around $200 to replace my dying netbook right before a trip required a SD card, just so Windows 10 could do it’s upgrade crap.

Other than that, it suits my modest travel computer needs.

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