Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:19 pm
I've been thinking I should update this with the good news that this turned out to be repairable. The site of the damage in the pictures was actually the ribbon cable ripping away from the plastic 'male' end. It cost me <$50 australian to get the replacement ribbon sent from a US ebay seller, did the job myself. It was a Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance thing - after looking at that darn socket and wondering how it worked about once or twice a day for a week and being puzzled, I finally saw it correctly and just took out the broken-off header, leaving a perfectly functional socket on the screen. I also found and removed a little stick that one of my children had broken off in the headphone socket.
Next up: my wealthy little sister slung me an old basic Vaio with an early i3 she had sitting round. It's main strength is a 15" 1366x768 screen, which after a 1920x1080 on a bare 11" is actually OK. But, it turns out its from the era of socketed laptop chips and I have bought an i7 740QM for $32 that I aim to install just as soon as everything else in my life is going very very well.
Athlon 620e, Asus 7790 (1GB), 8GB KVR 1333, Asus M4A785T-M, Samsung 830 256GB, WD Green 1TB, WD Green 2TB, E-mu 1212m, Dvico HD Dual Digital 4 TV tuner, Hyper 212 Evo (mounted ironically), Antec Earthwatts Platinum 450W.