Well, BUGGER.
Mar. 18th, 2002 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo, I went up on compaq.com and discovered that they do in fact have a manual that talks about how to do things like take your display panel off your laptop, which I have successfully done; the thing is lying in pieces beside me right now. However, that only served to demonstrate to me and Dar that the suspect hinge is in fact cracked, and neither of us could figure out any obvious way to fix it.
So I called Compaq, and they pointed me at an authorized reseller who wants to charge me $950 for a new display panel. This is, I must note, a thousand dollars less than what the service center in L.A. wanted to charge me, but still. Fuck that.
I am now registered on eBay so I can see if I can buy a busted laptop for parts. There is in fact a guy trying to sell his Presario for parts up there, but according to the auction description the unit has no video, either with or without an external monitor, but he's unclear as to whether the video problem is the fault of the video card or the actual display panel. He's asking $200 for the thing; we'll see if I get an answer out of the email I've sent to him to ask him about it.
So I called Compaq, and they pointed me at an authorized reseller who wants to charge me $950 for a new display panel. This is, I must note, a thousand dollars less than what the service center in L.A. wanted to charge me, but still. Fuck that.
I am now registered on eBay so I can see if I can buy a busted laptop for parts. There is in fact a guy trying to sell his Presario for parts up there, but according to the auction description the unit has no video, either with or without an external monitor, but he's unclear as to whether the video problem is the fault of the video card or the actual display panel. He's asking $200 for the thing; we'll see if I get an answer out of the email I've sent to him to ask him about it.
