{"id":36,"date":"2012-10-29T06:44:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T06:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-10-31T19:35:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:35:45","slug":"gigabyte-m1405-screen-repairreplacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Gigabyte m1405 screen repair\/replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my nice 14in Gigabyte notebook has been humming along, until I picked up the satchel and it slid out – falling 50cm onto the floor edge first.<\/p>\n

This caused a crack along the left most 10% of the screen. I lived with it for a week or so, then bit the bullet to replace it.<\/p>\n

A place on ebay sold me a screen for $100 shipped from the USA. After doing the swap I see the part number indicated the same screen is used in some SONY and Dell notebooks, so if I break it again I’ll be using a $75 part. The part number is\u00c2\u00a0b140xw02 V.1 (You can buy one here from Amazon<\/a>. Note I get a dollar or two if you use that link).<\/p>\n

I couldn’t find any instructions online, so I began with a bit of trepidation. The key things to know if you are going to do this yourself:<\/p>\n

– the screen can be replaced without disassembling any of the laptop base.<\/p>\n

– there are four screws under the rubber plugs at the corners of the silver screen fascia.<\/p>\n

– The silver frame can be unclipped very gently. I used guitar picks to carefully prise it forward.<\/p>\n

– The wedge shaped hinge covers can be removed by ripping off the mirror stickers on the outersides and removing a screw. I did this, but it may be possible to leave them in place if you are very careful.<\/p>\n

– Once the front frame is off, there are only four screws holding the screen to the red metal lid.<\/p>\n

– The wiring harness just pushes into place with a piece of tape to hold it.<\/p>\n

– Now put it all back together!<\/p>\n

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Just pull it free and push in the new one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The silver screw is one of four holding the screen tabs in place. No need to remove the black ones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my nice 14in Gigabyte notebook has been humming along, until I picked up the satchel and it slid out – falling 50cm onto the floor edge first. This caused a crack along the left most 10% of the screen. I lived with it for a week or so, then bit the bullet to replaceRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}