Gah! My laptop screen is cracked!

[llatch]

I got it that way from a client whose son got mad at it and punched it- It was spontaneously shutting down and he lost his temper.

My gain!

After removing the ten thousand screws that Toshiba used to hold that thing together, I took the motherboard out to the garage to spend some quality time with the air compressor. This time was used to remove the rug of shmegma that was jammed in the fins of the cpu cooler causing it to overheat.

On reassembly, I purposely omitted the reinstall of the screen and viola!
A headless laptop! Wee! See picture below!

Spoiler

 

[brownchm]

I got it that way from a client whose son got mad at it and punched it- It was spontaneously shutting down and he lost his temper.

My gain!

After removing the ten thousand screws that Toshiba used to hold that thing together, I took the motherboard out to the garage to spend some quality time with the air compressor. This time was used to remove the rug of shmegma that was jammed in the fins of the cpu cooler causing it to overheat.

On reassembly, I purposely omitted the reinstall of the screen and viola!
A headless laptop! Wee! See picture below!

Spoiler

That is awesome and very practical

 

[llatch]

Aye! These days, I have been playing Cave Story on it!

 

[nickdalzell]

A laptop sans LCD is super cheap on eBay. The bulk of the price must be mainly the screen. Dandy way to mount one inside an old multiplex TV console from the 60s to make a generic smart TV out of it though

 

[llatch]

I think it's more the fact that with a screen, it's a whole computer. Most people throw things away if they are partially nonfunctional.