Wednesday, March 21, 2012

How To Replace Broken Hinges

Today we are going to learn how to  replace broken laptop hinges.One ine day you feel a strong  urge to use your laptop, when all of a sudden, you feel your laptop being unhinged. This is because your laptop hinges are broken. Now why are they broken? or better yet, what causes them to break? Usually, it's because your laptop monitor is loose, and consequently it is unable to stay open for too long  a time. And when that happens, it means it is time to change the hinges.  

Things You'll Need for the Exercise

  • Flathead Screw Driver
  • Phillips Screw Driver
  • Replacement Hinges
Now Onward!

  • Remove power cable, hard drive and memory sticks from your laptop
           

  • Remove all screws holding the laptop to the keyboard base.



  • Use Your flathead screwdriver to separate the keyboard from the laptop. you then remove You then separate the bezel, located along the keyboard, from the motherboard.



  • If there are hinge covers, remove them and separate cables connecting the LCD display to the motherboard

  • Carefully remove all screws connecting the LCD to the laptop base. then carefully remove the display from the laptop base

 


  • Remove screws connecting both sides of the display. Separate the front bezel from the LCD display cover.Carefully remove the LCD display from the cover. Then unplug the video cable before removing the screen.

 

  • Remove all screws holding the old hinges to the display cover and then replace the old hinges with the new hinges.
  • Finally, put your laptop back together by doing the reverse of the above steps.

    Before you do this exercise, contact your laptop manufacturer for replacement hinges. You can do that with your model number and serial number. If you have any of the laptops listed below, click on them to purchase your replacement hinges
  • SONY
  • Asus
  • Lenovo 
  • HP
  • Dell Inspiron


    If you're unable to get the hinges from your manufacturer, visit CompUSA or  Amazon  for these parts.  Also, if you are a laptop user and would like to learn how to fix your laptop, including removing and replacing broken laptop hinges, Download Laptop Repair Videos.
So That's wrap on "How To  Replace Broken Laptop Hinges.  I'd say it is moderately challenging, but hopefully, you will get the hang of it.

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