Hello all,
I recently got this laptop Zenbook UX31E second hand.
I disassembled it to try a few things. One of them is attempting to attach a full HD LCD panel belonging to a UX31A zenbook.
(with the new panel the led lights were switching on, but no display.)
While attempting to reatach the LCD cable to the internal socket on the MB for the LCD display.
While the 2 sockets not completely positioned but still touching each other,
I heard a short cracking noise and I smelled burned.
After this moment the LCD would not power on!
No visual damage.
HDMI to External display works and the laptop is functional with external display.
However the internal display does not work.
The other display that I was trying still works properly on the other laptop UX31A.
but on this laptop UX31E none of the displays lights up.
Still if LCD attached and laptop powered on there are very very subtle flashes of life in the display, almost unnoticable, but it still stays OFF.
Im OK with buying a new LCD screen. I was about to do that anyway because the original one had visual defects. A LCD display for this laptop is somewhere 50-60$ with shipping.
However I suspect, even with a new display, it will not work.
I am not professional laptop technician.
I am suspecting is the display socket on the MB. Maybe it has a small chip to do something that got fried, no idea.
So as I see it I can either use this laptop forever with external displays, which is a pity. Its a 1kg pretty powerful thing.
Option 2: I can sell it to someone that needs a small server.
Option 3: Buy a new MB. its around 170 usd. In adition to the 60$ screen.
My question is:
Is it really the MB?
Is it repairable?
How much would a repair cost?
Any software tool to diagnose this types of problem in a zenbook?
I recently got this laptop Zenbook UX31E second hand.
I disassembled it to try a few things. One of them is attempting to attach a full HD LCD panel belonging to a UX31A zenbook.
(with the new panel the led lights were switching on, but no display.)
While attempting to reatach the LCD cable to the internal socket on the MB for the LCD display.
While the 2 sockets not completely positioned but still touching each other,
I heard a short cracking noise and I smelled burned.
After this moment the LCD would not power on!
No visual damage.
HDMI to External display works and the laptop is functional with external display.
However the internal display does not work.
The other display that I was trying still works properly on the other laptop UX31A.
but on this laptop UX31E none of the displays lights up.
Still if LCD attached and laptop powered on there are very very subtle flashes of life in the display, almost unnoticable, but it still stays OFF.
Im OK with buying a new LCD screen. I was about to do that anyway because the original one had visual defects. A LCD display for this laptop is somewhere 50-60$ with shipping.
However I suspect, even with a new display, it will not work.
I am not professional laptop technician.
I am suspecting is the display socket on the MB. Maybe it has a small chip to do something that got fried, no idea.
So as I see it I can either use this laptop forever with external displays, which is a pity. Its a 1kg pretty powerful thing.
Option 2: I can sell it to someone that needs a small server.
Option 3: Buy a new MB. its around 170 usd. In adition to the 60$ screen.
My question is:
Is it really the MB?
Is it repairable?
How much would a repair cost?
Any software tool to diagnose this types of problem in a zenbook?