off topic but thought it was a good place to continue my IT progression from novice to rookie
Firstly Ill brag a little, Ive had an old acer laptop that the power connection died, got it fixed but 3 months later it died again, we got all the stuff off it that we needed before it died thankfully - for some reason I chucked it under the bed never to reappear until yesterday. About 4 months ago our newest laptop (also an acer) was dropped by Mrs Dutchy and the screen smashed, the PC part worked fine jsut didnt have a screen, i hooked it up to a monitor and it has worked fine since but not as a true laptop cause it is no longer portable....looked into a new screen and looks like the cheapest was $150 off ebay.....then i had a light bulb moment, would the screen from the older laptop that was useless fit in the new laptop considering they were both acer? quickly measured it up and googled both models and it seems i had a match.....so i took apart the old one with little idea of what i was doing with connections etc etc, just followed my nose and put it into the newer laptop, took about half an hour and a lot of mucking around with little screws etc and then hit the power button...sent up a prayer and bingo it worked! quite proud of myself and for the first time in years Mrs Dutchy was impressed with me
Next question I have for the gurus is, the old dud laptop - i took out the hard drive also, is there anyway you can get a connection to make it connect to a USB of another PC and use it like an external hard drive?
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:34 pm
I just pull them off and brush out the inside, then put them back on.