Old HP notebook out of warranty, could I still get it fixed?

[natalie888]

Hi!

I have an old HP notebook, that has been broken for about 3 years. The SN is CND80779KH. I can not get a spec list unfortunatly as the laptop screen doesn't work and the laptop battery is dead. I will try to charge it sometime today and see if i can gtlet it to boot. A friend and I both suspect broken backlight on the screen. The back panel is out of alignment with the keyboard, which I have attached photos of. The warranty ended in 2019, but I am wondering if it is worth trying to fix this laptop. If it is not worth fixing, I will use it as a training dummy for learning to open laptops and fix them confidentially. 

[manikyath]

it's probably not worth fixing some 8 year old laptop with that much damage.

[natalie888]

Yeah that's what I thought, just wanted to confirm in case there was some hope of fixing it. 

 

[jaslion]

5 minutes ago, natalie888 said:

Yeah that's what I thought, just wanted to confirm in case there was some hope of fixing it. 

 

If it turns on at the screen still works you can just get some jb weld and epoxy the hinge back to the screen. It works pretty well surprisingly. Wont be worse than the plastic mount hp uses

[natalie888]

The laptop is dead currently

But 3 years ago, the screen wouldn't turn on, and I had to use a flashlight to be able to see it. My friend said he thinks it's a broken backlight, and new screen should fix that

[natalie888]

I'm going to try charge the laptop today and see if it boots

[Needfuldoer]

The cables connecting the screen to the motherboard are damaged. (Probably caused when the hinge ripped apart.)

 

If it has an HDMI port, connect it to a TV or monitor. It will probably work fine as a stationary computer.

 

It's not worth the cost to fix, unless you can find an identical model that has a bad motherboard. Then you can make one good laptop out of the two broken ones.

[natalie888]

6 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

The cables connecting the screen to the motherboard are damaged. (Probably caused when the hinge ripped apart.)

 

If it has an HDMI port, connect it to a TV or monitor. It will probably work fine as a stationary computer.

 

It's not worth the cost to fix, unless you can find an identical model that has a bad motherboard. Then you can make one good laptop out of the two broken ones.

Ok that's interesting

I did wonder if there were some cables damaged

I'll try connecting it to an external monitor this afternoon when I have it charging. 

Thank you!

[SpookyCitrus]

Not worth it to fix, imo. You can look on eBay and usually find an upper screen assembly for those older HP's for less than $80. Then it's a simple swap. But you'd want the whole assembly with hinges and cables and everything. Battery is going to be around $30 on Amazon. Plus the time you'd have to put into it to replace everything, if it has a standard mechanical HDD it would be best to get an SSD in it as well. At that point you'd be putting the amount of money needed to purchase a refurb/used probook into fixing it. Might as well just get a more up to date probook on ebay for $150 to $200. Unless that one you have is a 9th gen or newer i5/i7, it's not worth putting any money into it.

[natalie888]

It's 8th gen i5

I'm just gonna see if it will work with an external monitor and if it does then victory

 

[natalie888]

Ok so I have the laptop on charge, the charging loght is on and the fans are going. I can see the lock screen, but very faintly. The laptop is connected to an external monitor by HDMI butt he monitor is black.

Do I need to connect the monitor to anything else to get it to turn on???

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

4 hours ago, natalie888 said:

Ok that's interesting

I did wonder if there were some cables damaged

I'll try connecting it to an external monitor this afternoon when I have it charging. 

Thank you!

Disconnect the display and the machine should default to the HDMI out. At least, that's what their EliteBooks did last time I tried. 

[natalie888]

Yeah we fixed it but we've run into an issue with the wifi

It's saying connect an ethernet cable to connect to the internet, it's not connecting to our network wirelessly

[natalie888]

The laptop doesn't seem to have an ethernet port tho

We have the ethernet cord

[natalie888]

ok so i had a look at the IO more closely and it does have an ethernet port, so I got that hooked up, but then ran into a problem with the web browsing.

That laptop has a internet search safe filter on it, and that flter has 2 modes, one where you can search on the internet, but some things are blocked, and the second mode is completely locked down, no internet searching. I did try to refresh the settings on the safe search filter and change the mode from locked down to the first one, but i can't, so I'm using the laptop as a testing ground. (I did take out the battery before I started trying to take it apart)

I said something about it on the LTT discord, and i posted a screenshot of the error page when i try to search something on the web on that laptop