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    Alienware m9700 Teardown

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by eosgood, Jul 13, 2010.

  1. eosgood

    eosgood Newbie

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    Hey, my m9700's screen is showing some vertical lines about a pixel wide and the right quarter of the screen is completely black. I believe the video card cable is going bad from opening and closing it so much.
    Does anyone know how to open the thing up and get to it and replace the cable?
    Thank you!!
     
    eosgood, Jul 13, 2010
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  2. simonmpoulton

    simonmpoulton Notebook Deity

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    The procedure is fairly simple:
    Remove the power button strip and keyboard (all screws on back and the two screws to the furthermost right and left on the bottom back of the unit)
    Disconnect the wires to the LCD
    You should then be able to feed the cables back through and then remove the LCD
    Then simply remove the rubber screw covers on the screen and unscrew the screws.
    Remove the front plastic part of the lid
    After that is done you can continue disassembling the screen until you get to the point where you can disconnect the cable.
     
    simonmpoulton, Jul 13, 2010
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  3. MissEntropy

    MissEntropy Newbie

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    I have a similar problem. About three weeks ago a single vertical line appeared on the far right side of my screen. Then this week another line appeared about two and a half inches to te left of the original one. Is it my RAM, the video card, the video card cable, or something else entirely? What do I do about it? I've already had to replace my RAID 1 hard drives this year.
     
    MissEntropy, Aug 29, 2010
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  4. eosgood

    eosgood Newbie

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    I JUST swapped out my screen and that fixed my problem. I tried the video cable but that didn't fix it. I got a new screen from screencountry.com and that fixed it! I think I torqued the screen in my backpack and that busted it. Good luck!
     
    eosgood, Aug 29, 2010
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  5. MissEntropy

    MissEntropy Newbie

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    Hmmmm...I haven't moved mine from my desk in eons. I guess that could be it. Any idea on how to check before I layout that kind of cash?
     
    MissEntropy, Aug 29, 2010
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  6. eosgood

    eosgood Newbie

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    Take it to a shop and see what they say if you're uneasy about opening it up yourself. You can always return a part if it's not what you need.
     
    eosgood, Aug 30, 2010
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