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New screen for Dell inspiron 1525

  • 13-06-2011 11:10pm
    #1
    hang time
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    Hi

    Just turned on my laptop for the first time since Saturday nite when I used it after been out drinking for a few hours to find my screen broken:mad:. The glass is grand but there is lines and black marks all over it. It's a Dell inspiron 1525 can someone recommend a good place to get it fixed at a reasonable price


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  • #2
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Hi,

    It mightn't be broken and it might be covered by the recall on nvidea graphics cards that happened a while back, give Dell a call and see if you can get it fixed for free, nothing ventured and all that. Otherwise, I would suggest that it would be as cheap to get a new laptop as it would be to replace the screen on 1


  • #3
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    sounds as if you have cracked the screen , does it look like ink inside the screen , a screen for a 1525 would be around 100 you could get one second hand well worth repairing imo.


  • #4
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    If you don't want to try it yourself and are around Dublin TechPros in Tallaght or Lucan will do it for €149 including parts and labour. €144 if you join their facebook group.


  • #5
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    GarIT wrote: »
    If you don't want to try it yourself and are around Dublin TechPros in Tallaght or Lucan will do it for €149 including parts and labour. €144 if you join their facebook group.

    does that include vat ?


  • #6
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    duckysauce wrote: »
    does that include vat ?

    Yes, thats the full price you pay. That's presuming its not a HD or LED screen or some other types of screens that are fairly expensive and that it's also 15.4 or 15.6 inch. A quick Google says it's a 15.4 inch WXGA so it should be that price.


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  • #7
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    I got a new screen for my 1525 on Adverts for 70 euros only I cannot get it to light up. The screen is very dark and hard to see.


  • #8
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    I got a new screen for my 1525 on Adverts for 70 euros only I cannot get it to light up. The screen is very dark and hard to see.

    Either the backlight or the inverter is gone. If its the backlight there's not much you can do its inside the screen casing and very hard to replace. You'd have to buy another new screen. If its the inverter its just a few screws to get too and not much work at all.


  • #9
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    GarIT wrote: »
    Either the backlight or the inverter is gone. If its the backlight there's not much you can do its inside the screen casing and very hard to replace. You'd have to buy another new screen. If its the inverter its just a few screws to get too and not much work at all.

    Is the inverter a little rectangular circuit board connected to the screen by 2 wires?????


  • #10
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    Is the inverter a little rectangular circuit board connected to the screen by 2 wires?????

    Its connected to the screen by 1 wire, at one end and connected to the laptop by a wire at the other, its in between the laptop and screen, it should be about 1 cm high and about 8cm wide roughly.


  • #11
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    GarIT wrote: »
    Its connected to the screen by 1 wire, at one end and connected to the laptop by a wire at the other, its in between the laptop and screen, it should be about 1 cm high and about 8cm wide roughly.

    Cheers I will look at that, It must be that I made a balls of changing the screen..:o:o


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  • #12
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    Cheers I will look at that, It must be that I made a balls of changing the screen..:o:o

    Sometimes it can just be that the inverter wires aren't in properly, the screen will turn on but it wont know how to light itself properly. If the inverter is damaged it would be the same with any screen though.


  • #13
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    GarIT wrote: »
    Sometimes it can just be that the inverter wires aren't in properly, the screen will turn on but it wont know how to light itself properly. If the inverter is damaged it would be the same with any screen though.

    Cheers I better take the dam thing apart again..:mad:


  • #14
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Let me know how it goes.


  • #15
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    GarIT wrote: »
    Let me know how it goes.

    I will. Might be better sticking to the day job me thinks..:o


  • #16
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Did you have any luck in the end?


  • #17
    -Corkie-
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    GarIT wrote: »
    Did you have any luck in the end?

    I couldnt find the thread to update!!!. I hadno luck at all but it dont really matter as I use the laptop in the dark mostly. I will flog it shortly and get something newer.


  • #18
    HelpWithIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭HelpWithIT


    GarIT wrote: »
    Its connected to the screen by 1 wire, at one end and connected to the laptop by a wire at the other, its in between the laptop and screen, it should be about 1 cm high and about 8cm wide roughly.

    It's actually two wires usually pink and white, if you didn't plug the screen to inverter cable in properly then you may have blown inverter, new inverter about €20 on ebay, some of those Dells actually need a Dell coded screen, €145 a bit steep, I charge €130 for the Dell screens and €120 for the generic screens with 12 month warranty, did your screen come with the inverter attached? usually the Dell coded screens come with an inverter.


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