I’ve never done a hardware review before (with the exception of the odd Amazon review), so bear with me. For those who’ve been following my rarely updated blog, I’ve been plagued with laptop issues for a while (here, here, here and here – oddly enough all LCD related) so I figured it was about time […]
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A lesson on LVDS, impedance and cheap cables from China
A handful of months ago, my laptop (Lenovo Ideapad Y500 for those wondering) started suffering with screen issues. Specifically the ones that result from the tiny wires in the LCD cables shearing in the hinges. Taking it upon myself to go to eBay to find a replacement, I found a single seller selling the part […]
Compaq CQ60 Display Woes – Part 2
So in my previous post relating to this, I’d sent the machine back twice to HP to be repaired. The first visit gained a new motherboard and CPU. The second visit gained a new LCD assembly. But still the fault persisted. It sort of worked alright-ish for around a week or so, but then gave […]
Compaq CQ60 Display Issues
So lately I acquired a (almost) new Compaq CQ60 laptop from the missus as she got a new one from the government (*sigh*). Anyway, we got this laptop about 6 months ago back in November ’09. When setting it up, I noticed the internal screen would take a while to switch on. I never thought […]