laptop salvage

[TheSneakinSpider]

so I have had a dying laptop for a year now and I tried to repair the issue but it wasn't fixed the charge port was still dead so now I have the screen and dvd drive from it

[yathis]

charge port would seem like an easy repair to me.

[Billy_Mays]

You can make a Portable screen with the laptop screen if you don't mind sparing ~$50

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, yathis said:

charge port would seem like an easy repair to me.

Everyone isn't a soddering master

[yathis]

1 minute ago, Billy_Mays said:

Everyone isn't a soddering master

Is it surface mount?

[TheSneakinSpider]

thtas why I got the screen out and for you other person the laptop has already been replaced and it was just to see if something was loose in it because of hard drive trouble on another computer and this was easy to swap drives now I will have to just buy a sata to usb adapter

[Billy_Mays]

1 minute ago, TheSneakinSpider said:

thtas why I got the screen out and for you other person the laptop has already been replaced and it was just to see if something was loose in it because of hard drive trouble on another computer and this was easy to swap drives now I will have to just buy a sata to usb adapter

Do you have a PC? If so you can use a SATA cable to use the drive (all HDDs except IDE can be used in the same system) IDE looks like this

[TheSneakinSpider]

yes but the system can't use the drive for some reason even though the drive works

[TheSneakinSpider]

wait what about SCSI drives

[aisle9]

28 minutes ago, TheSneakinSpider said:

so I have had a dying laptop for a year now and I tried to repair the issue but it wasn't fixed the charge port was still dead so now I have the screen and dvd drive from it

Take it to Best Buy. If you can somehow, some way get it to boot into Windows, they'll give you a $75 gift card for it until the 15th.