Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop?

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Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday January 12, 2004 @07:54AM from the more-difficult-than-you-might-think dept.

halosfan asks: "I recently broke the LCD bezel (the plastic thing that holds the LCD and related wires together) on a laptop that I bought half a year ago. I checked eBay as well as a few online stores specializing in laptop replacement parts, but still couldn't find the replacement. I contacted the manufacturer, but they were absolutely useless. Local laptop repair shop said they wouldn't replace the bezel without replacing the LCD, which isn't acceptable. It is an extremely frustrating situation, as the bezel is a minor part that I otherwise couldn't care less about, but it is necessary to carry the laptop around. I am wondering what other ways are there to obtain a laptop replacement part? Also, any recommendations for manufacturers that are good about making obscure replacement parts for their laptops available to the general public?" Does your laptop manufacturer make it easy or hard to get the necessary replacement parts?

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woot by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 07:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

first post. burn your tv^H^Hlaptop!
Re:Ask Slashdot: I'm hungry by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 07:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Replacement Parts. What is it all about... is it good, or is it whack?
Re:Can't find a replacement bezel? One answer by StarManta · 2004-01-12 08:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

damn, someone beat me to it.

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Re:Ask Slashdot: I'm hungry by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 09:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

LOL! Thanks for a chuckle. ;)
Re:Two Words..... by Slime-dogg · 2004-01-12 10:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Read the post lower down, that was posted half an hour earlier.

Moderate accordingly.

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Re:Everything is made cheap and unrepairable... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 10:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

While we are at it, I would like to tell everyone about my Maxtor 80 GB HDD, used at home multi boot between Windows 98 and Linux. It lasted about 90 days. It suddenly slowed down, as if the motor shorted. Windows 98 crashed, and Slackware refused to run, as did Redhat 7.1 This is a 7200 RPM drive, and it runs quite slow now. This drive is so bad, that MS-DOS refuses to install on it! I finally forced Mandrake 8 to do an install, but as each file is written to the disk, the "progress bar" gets "stuck" at the end for a while, then Mandrake proceeds to the next file. It'll boot, but not into KDM, only to a console prompt. First boot, Mandrake said the "filesystem needed repair". What? on the first boot?

Now, about powermax.exe, Maxtors HDD utility. I downloaded that, on two separate machines, and made the floppy. It boots, but won't run anything but a couple of text information screens. So, I have two useless floppies. Tested them on other boxes with Maxtor HDD's. Same thing.
Who would have thought that a brand new Maxtor 80 GB HDD would only last 90 days?.

BTW, I put two older HDD's in the box, and now multi-boot Windows 98, Debian and Mandrake. The computer seems fine, I'm using it now, but I hesitate to try another Maxtor 80 GB HDD!