I figured creating a topic to share what people got in mystery boxes would be pretty cool! (Also hope this is different enough from the other more discussion based mystery box topic to warrant a new topic)
I haven’t messed around with these much yet to figure out what works and what doesn’t, but I personally got:
input cover kit (I think the track pad is wonky? but will test to see whats up with it) edit1 : Seems to work perfectly after reinstalling the trackpad!
I’m thinking it’s not fixable? Nothing outwardly seems to be wrong with the display, but from my understanding of display issues, they are kinda hard to fix?
The Bottom Cover Kit seems outwardly totally fine? Not sure what exactly to test on that (and I right now do not want to disassemble my entire laptop to fully test it frankly).
Quite happy to get a working chassis basically, two kits, typically worth $99 each both seemingly working great with a little tweaking? Well worth it
My Mystery Box contained the same itmes
keyboard and track pad worked fine.
Im not taking apart my laptop to test the chasie but it looks fine.
The display had a similar issue.
Has anyone got any ideas as to whether this sort of screen is repairable. I imagine some very fine wire has broken somewhere, but can’t think of a way to repair such a fault.
One has nothing to loose by at least trying.
Like technically yes but not realistically to my knowledge. There is a laser that is used on IPhone screens that might work. If you lucky just one of the ribbon cables connecting the panel to toe control board. more likely the problem is the glass mounted lcd driver. or its one of the traces in the 201 PPI display
if the IC is is the problem mabby you could pull one form a donor device
i dont know if theres any tuning that dont to match an ic to a display
if the IC came unpadaged or the flex cablme came louse you could mabby reattach it
if the ribbon cable came loose from the laptop side you could re solder
while doing all the work you need to not bend the display not over heat the display.
you fix has to work in a laptop assuming you are putting it in one witch will get jostled, dropped, and vibrated.
without a lot of experience/falling i don’t know of a way to figure out witch part is broken
after all of that if you want to try this pleas let me know you my kind of crazy
These links might help you
the laser in this video costs 5k today
In my large mystery box: i7-1165G7 mainboard with some sort of power issue? Kept bootlooping before it could load BIOS or self check. A dented top cover. A bottom cover that seems fine. And a very cracked, nonfunctional original display beyond repair.
