Can any laptop experts help with this please?

[WAVman]

This white band has appeared on the side of my 10yr olds laptop screen.
She says she hasn't dropped it, but who knows?
It's an old one, so not the end of the world if it's had it but if it's a simple fix then it will save getting another one.
Thanks in advance.

[Andeh1]

She's dropped it. That black smudge in the bottom right hand corner is also a good sign it's been dropped and/or the lid has been closed on something.

Afraid it's time for a new laptop, no repair will be economical unless it's a very common laptop!

[WAVman]

Andeh1 said:

She's dropped it. That black smudge in the bottom right hand corner is also a good sign it's been dropped and/or the lid has been closed on something.

Afraid it's time for a new laptop, no repair will be economical unless it's a very common laptop!

Thanks for confirming what I suspected.

[AJB88]

If its common might be able to pick up a new or 2nd hand screen on eBay, but might be out of your technical scope to repair it.

[Order66]

Do they move it much? Could buy a cheapo monitor and turn it into a desktop

[Baldchap]

There's a ribbon cable connecting the screen to the base - if you can get a new screen it's a square peg, square hole swap.

[WAVman]

AJB88 said:

If its common might be able to pick up a new or 2nd hand screen on eBay, but might be out of your technical scope to repair it.

I get a man in to change bulbs mate!

[Paddymcc]

If you take off the bezel round the screen you will be able to undo the screws holding the screen on place.

On the rear of the screen there will be a model number with 4 characters after it. Stick that number and the 4 characters into eBay and you will usually pickup a screen panel for around £20

[Paul Drawmer]

Paddymcc said:

If you take off the bezel round the screen you will be able to undo the screws holding the screen on place.

On the rear of the screen there will be a model number with 4 characters after it. Stick that number and the 4 characters into eBay and you will usually pickup a screen panel for around £20

And..
Some of the vendors have detailed instructions on how to replace as well.

If you can do this, it IS an economic repair.

[WAVman]

Thanks all.
Sounds like it's worth a try.
I'll keet the thread updated with my cack-handed efforts to do it myself!

[Murph7355]

Put some duck tape down that side of the screen, covering the white bar and the black smudge in the corner.

Note to 10yr old that as a result of dropping it/otherwise not looking after it, the screen size has now reduced by 2in and demonstrate how to use apps windowed.

Note that next time they may not be so lucky and a screen size reduction may not be possible. At which point pencil and paper will be the only alternative.

[FlossyThePig]

My daughter bought three laptops for her three eldest (out of 4) for homework duties. When eldest went off to uni the youngest inherited the laptop. So far I have replaced 2 screens, 2 keyboards and two hard drives, spread over three laptops. Dead easy to do, YouTube videos can help. Now that number 2 son has gone to uni there is a spare. I’ve offered to make two good ones by combining bits from all three.