A couple of weeks ago I talked about the successful replacement of the screen assembly on my Dell Latitiude C810 laptop. I did this without the aid of a great article from Instructables.com called DIY – Replace Broken Laptop LCD.
This Instructables article takes a more complex aproach to replacing the LCD on an Apple iBook G4 than I did with my Latitude; The article shows how to replace the LCD but leave the upper case and the surrounding components intact. I didn’t do this because:
- it’s potentially a lot more difficult,
- there was a possibility that more than one display component was malfunctioning on my laptop,
- there were a number of complete display assemblies that are compatible with my C810 available on eBay at reasonable prices.
I think that articles like this one are really helpful because they help laptop owners to realize that display component failures are fairly common, and that you don’t necessarily have to buy a new laptop or spend hundreds of dollars on an out-of-warranty repair at a computer repair shop. I found more specific instructions on how to take my C810 apart in the Dell Latitude C810 Service Manual, but I never would have realized that replacing the entire laptop display assembly was a viable strategy by reading the service manual.
I’m going to delve more deeply into Instructables.com to see if other articles they’ve published are equally useful. [ via Lifehacker ]