broken screen help...

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XF8X

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Hi, my screen on my HP Pavillion dv2000 has been broken for a while now, theres a couple black splotches because it fell off my amp at a party I was having. I don't really want to go about spending 200 dollars or whatever to replace the screen, instead I was hoping to get a broken laptop with a good screen. My question is: Do I need the exact same laptop or can I get any laptop with a broken motherboard that's big enough to fit mine?

Thx.
 
Just lookup the dv2000 screen on ebay. I picked one up for my brother's Compaq laptop for like $45 or something half a year ago.

Just look up the disassembly instructions and follow that, and do it backwards once you get the new screen in. Was easy as pie. Probably much easier than trying to get a laptop where the screen works and swapping everything.
 
but I was thinking if I but I broken laptop I could get extra parts with it like an extra hardrive, better RAM, etc... I will see if I can find the screen though.
 
XF8X said:
but I was thinking if I but I broken laptop I could get extra parts with it like an extra hardrive, better RAM, etc... I will see if I can find the screen though.
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Unless you look locally, most broken laptops are sold without the hard drive, and RAM is pretty cheap anyway.

eBay is definitely your best bet.
 
You might get lucky but usually, as mentioned, when someone sells a broken laptop the good parts tend to get stripped.

Just grabbing the screen on ebay will probably be cheaper anyway, but if you find one then by all means go for it. Many ebay vendors will also give you a warranty for the new screen as well. IIRC the compaq one came with 6 months or a year or something. Was perfect minus one pixel that went out after a month or so, but I never cared too much.

Edit: Did a quick check on ebay. Seems that model screen will run you about $80 shipped.
If you don't need the laptop to be used as a 'laptop' you can toss a vga into its video out and run it like a desktop as well. Just another option if the replacement is too much money.
 
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ok, but just to answer my question, is it possible to put my motherboard and hard drive in another laptop?
 
XF8X said:
ok, but just to answer my question, is it possible to put my motherboard and hard drive in another laptop?
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Only if it's the exact same model. Sometimes different models in the same series of notebooks use the same motherboard, but that is difficult to check. But it's much easier to swap LCDs than to swap motherboards..
 
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