I accidentally crushed my laptop screen while lowering my car seat. co-incidentally I had an old screen which got damaged earlier, but was still about 80-85% visible with 4 round black dead pixel blobs about an inch in dia. basically not usable on a regular basis, but it can work for testing.

I tried connecting an external HDMI monitor while loading the bios screen and it worked a couple of times,(VGA did not work) and after a few reboots(laptop also has some power issue and kept shutting down) the power issue was resolved once i connected the battery(was running it directly on power),...

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I'm Inderjeet from Punjab, India. I'm an IT software company owner and an ex-merchant mariner. I like to pull apart and fix used laptops as a hobby, have no prior IT or electronics knowledge, owning to my original field of study. am currently trying to fix my old samsung laptop which I crushed by mistake. cant seem to find the parts and need could use some help from the experts...

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