My Laptop's Monitor Broken. Please Advise. (3 Viewers)

[prabha_friend]

Hi All,
Good Evening. I am Keeping a laptop for more than 8 years. Have changed its battery and Keyboard once. Also replaced the Hard Disk with an SSD. Now it's Display got broken. Please find below the link I purchased on:
amazon.in/dp/B073TWQNQ4
The above link has every details about it.
My Laptop's current Health Summary:
Keyboard needs to be changed again and also its battery. Now Display got broken. I believe I can fix everything with 5K INR. possible? and please advise on the same. Thanks.
p.s:
posted this from my laptop got connected to my wife's Monitor. It is her work from Home Monitor. I cannot use whenever I want.

 

[Minty]

If you can buy a display, battery and a keyboard for £45 (that's roughly the conversion to GBP) then it might be worth it.
The laptop looks a reasonable spec, unless you want an excuse to replace it.

Be warned that changing the display can be very tricky on some laptops, and it's easy to crack the new one when trying!
I need a new battery for one of my laptops and on it's own that is about £35...

 

[Pat Hartman]

Technology moves on. Eight years is a good run for a computer. I try to switch mine out after five years. Take your HD out and put it in a stand alone case so you can import all the data. Too bad there is no easy way to transfer installed software. That's the hassle with getting a new computer.

 

[June7]

Why does keyboard need to be changed - again - what happened?

By broken monitor, you mean it no longer displays anything? Replacement display in USD starts at $51.95, add cost of battery/keyboard (first and second time around) and SSD upgrade - at some point cost of maintenance exceeds cost of new.

Are you trying to keep this laptop mobile capable? If mobility is not required, consider https://www.amazon.in/s?k=dell+vostro+replacement+monitor&i=computers&crid=3464SUIQ6LGI9&sprefix=dell+vostro+replacement+monitor,computers,270&ref=nb_sb_noss

I do understand not wanting to give up what is familiar. I have two 17" HP Pavilion laptops, going on 10+ years for one, both were rebuilds and ~$250 each. Batteries no longer hold charge so have to be plugged in to work. I hate to replace because of disposal hassle as well as price of comparable new. I have upgraded one to Windows 11 and looking at doing the other (still have to deal with hassle of reloading apps but that's life). I am 72 years and want devices to outlive me.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I do understand not wanting to give up what is familiar.

Yep, there is a "hate to give up on an old friend" syndrome. My DELL XP 3800 series beastie lasted 16 years with one replaced system disk, but when things started going bad, it was time to replace. I had an SSD go out on the DELL about 5 or 6 years ago, but had good backups of my personal files so got a new system SSD and kept on going. That story is in the WaterCooler somewhere. But when the DELL's replacement SSD died and at the same time I started getting controller errors on my HDD and my system fan went out - and when I considered the age of the video graphics card - it was time to bite the bullet. That is also what forced me to finally move to Win11. For what it does, Win11 isn't so bad. Though for what it WANTS to do, yecchh! I must have regedit'ed a dozen things to turn off or block some actions that I didn't want happening.

 

[Isaac]

I suppose this is more of a comment than a helpful suggestion, but I'm more with Pat's rough 5 year approach.
I tend to buy cheaper laptops, in fact sometimes even refurbished ones for <$200, and am fine replacing them every 3-5 years.
My display totally broke in one of my Dell's about a year ago, I now use it to stack other things on and replaced it right away.
You're a better man than I if you can figure out how to 'fix' it - good luck

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I tend to buy cheaper laptops, in fact sometimes even refurbished ones for <$200

Unfortunately, I'm a gamer so need a little bit more "oomph" in my machine. My wife does OK with relatively inexpensive machines, but my games won't play very well on the cheapies.

 

[Isaac]

My son is the same way. He put his last PC together from kits here and there, I'd say somewhere around halfway between "totally atomic fabrication" and "a complete easy kit" - I was quite impressed. I know little about hardware, so when I buy a laptop, I mostly look at screensize, keyboard, enough various ports, and RAM and that's about it. Then again he's about to graduate as a Master's in robotics engineering, so I'd hope he knows more than his Dad!

I know gamers need something that's higher quality, but fortunately my work has a virtual desktop I use and there isn't a whole lot I use on my actual laptop except Office, Chrome, Adobe, Greenshot and a few tiny exe's to make current Windows' OS's functional again, like ExplorerPatcher.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

If it were not for the consumer-level (as opposed to server-level) disk bus/backplane, my system could reasonably act as a time-sharing server. It has the Intel 14th generation chip that has potential of 28 threads at once, with a mix of high-performance and lesser-performance threads so it can do things like have an "Affinity" setting for batch jobs and a higher-level Affinity for speed jobs. Believe it or not, even with my customization to add an HDD and a DVD player, it still cost less (not even counting inflation) as the 16-year-old machine it replaced. And that includes the higher performance graphics card. And it has 32 GB of RAM, so background stuff can run even when I'm gaming. I never see the load caused by my antiviral package even though when I later check the notices, I can see when it ran and what it found.

 

[Isaac]

my system could reasonably act as a time-sharing server

In my younger years I once sat through a long timeshare presentation and even ended up being convinced to buy one, on exchange for nothing but a free dinner. Eventually we changed our minds and backed out of it within the right of recision. But yours, reminding me of that time.

 

[Pat Hartman]

You should have taken one of the cruises or a weekend at their resort. For two hours of pain, you get a couple of days of fun.