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The hinge on Mrs Riggrrrr's laptop has taken a bit of a beating from our 3 year old lad and has snapped, obviously taking some sort of cable with it as the screen longer works.

I have tried to connect it via a HDMI lead to our TV but I can't get it to display.

The wife desperately needs to access some documents on the laptop so has anyone got any ideas of how I can get the display working on the TV or similar?
 
I sometimes connect my laptop to my tv using a vga lead, never had any problems doing it that way.
 
The should be a button that switches the laptop between monitor & TV,you'll need a VGA cable tho.At a push,if you have a USB external HD,you could pop the HD out of the broke laptop then connect that as a external HD to a second PC,I had to do that with my laptop when the HD failed & I had to replace it,only way I could recover the files.
 
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With some laptops you need to connect the HDMI lead before you boot up the machine or it won't "sense" that its connected. Also some laptops need you to toggle the F4 key to switch on the external monitor
 
riggrrrr said:
The hinge on Mrs Riggrrrr's laptop has taken a bit of a beating from our 3 year old lad and has snapped, obviously taking some sort of cable with it as the screen longer works.

I have tried to connect it via a HDMI lead to our TV but I can't get it to display.

The wife desperately needs to access some documents on the laptop so has anyone got any ideas of how I can get the display working on the TV or similar?
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Connect it to an ordinary monitor via VGA and switch it on.
 
riggrrrr said:
Cool, cheers guys. I'll get myself a VGA cable tomorrow. I take it they are relatively cheap and available?
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Maplins or PC World have them. If you cant get the screen up, get a cheap hard disk caddie from Maplins or similar, open her up, take the drive out, insert into caddie, then plug into another PC via USB cable.
 
azorius said:
Maplins or PC World have them. If you cant get the screen up, get a cheap hard disk caddie from Maplins or similar, open her up, take the drive out, insert into caddie, then plug into another PC via USB cable.
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Good idea,then you can use it as a external HD & buy a new cheapo Laptop for OC Domestics.
 
Just had to do this for the missus - external HD caddy cost about £3.50 off fleabay.

If you do this pop the HD out first to see if it's an IDE or SATA...
 
If you're technically minded it's actually rather simple to replace the screen too, well certainly on the 4 laptops that I've had in bits over the past couple of years: do a search through google along the lines of "dismantle Acer 5920G" or whatever your laptop is and you should find the relevent instructions (I've used this site before --> http://www.insidemylaptop.com/ ) Just beware that there a lot of variants of the same model so you may have to apply a bit of lateral thinking. Not sure of the prices of new screens though so that's what you'll have to weigh up against a new laptop.
 
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Teh Wal said:
If you're technically minded it's actually rather simple to replace the screen too, well certainly on the 4 laptops that I've had in bits over the past couple of years: do a search through google along the lines of "dismantle Acer 5920G" or whatever your laptop is and you should find the relevent instructions (I've used this site before --> http://www.insidemylaptop.com/ ) Just beware that there a lot of variants of the same model so you may have to apply a bit of lateral thinking. Not sure of the prices of new screens though so that's what you'll have to weigh up against a new laptop.
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Well, believe it or not, this is the second time the hinges have snapped. The first time I managed to get replacement parts with the plan to change them myself as I assumed it was just the hinges but ended up having to get the screen replaced which I left to a pc specialist. Now, just over 1 year down the line, they've gone again. It's an old Compaq and apparently the hinges do have a tendency to give up quickly under abuse.

I don't particularly want to spend out on another screen and hinges only for it to go again so as soon as I can get it hooked up to the TV for her to find her CV, I'll sort out a HD caddie in the new year and we'll just have to share laptops for a while!
 
Oooo, new laptop for missus Riggrrr for Xmas... now there's an idea that'll get you plenty of brownie points :PDT_Xtremez_31:

The caddie is a very effective and straightforward way of accessing the files you need plus it's cheap too - IIRC I paid about 8 quid for one early last year, there's no need to get a super-duper, spangly, all-dancing one if you're not going to be using it permanently. Check whether the hard drive is IDE or SATA before you go out and buy the caddie. If you're close to ISL I've got one (SATA) you could borrow if you want.
 
You can pick up a small netbook for about £120-180 with Windows 7 these days.

You can purchase an external usb floppy, or an external usb dvd/cdrw drive if its needed.

The days of having a massive laptop with built in floppy/dvd drive have gone. Most media these days is electronic, shared through a USB stick. When at home on the wireless you can connect to the "big home PC" through a windows workgroup sharing files/internet connection.
 
Chicco said:
You can pick up a small netbook for about £120-180 with Windows 7 these days.

You can purchase an external usb floppy, or an external usb dvd/cdrw drive if its needed.

The days of having a massive laptop with built in floppy/dvd drive have gone. Most media these days is electronic, shared through a USB stick. When at home on the wireless you can connect to the "big home PC" through a windows workgroup sharing files/internet connection.
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I don't store anything on my laptop,I have it all on 3 USB hard drives,partly because I can connect them to my TV,but also because it's easier if the laptop blows,then I've lost very little...
 
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I don't store anything on my laptop,I have it all on 3 USB hard drives,partly because I can connect them to my TV,but also because it's easier if the laptop blows,then I've lost very little...
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I don't even trust USB drives, all our data is on a RAID1 NAS connected to router. The onboard media server means that I can access any media from everything including the PS3. And files are accessed over the network.
 
riggrrrr - thought of opening a can of coke at some point whilst working on the laptop? It's strange how when these things go wrong coke can accidentally find its way onto the motherboard? :PDT_Xtremez_19:
 
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