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Tech Crisis. Please Help!

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  • 28-01-2012 9:03pm
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    Niall0001
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭


    During the week one of my pets knocked a glass of orange juice across my keyboard (HP Pavillion dv7 3020sa) & it's gone haywire since - no keys working when I press them, but screen scrolls everywhere making it unusable. So I found a tutorial for taking it apart so I could clean the keyboard/replace it with newly ordered keyboard. After doing so I turned it on but the screen doesn't work now! Totally blank. I plugged it through VGA into a desktop monitor but still nothing.

    Any help massively appreciated.


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    ED E
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    Take it back down again, you've forgot to reconnect something. We can assume its the screen. Its usually a small connector about an inch long with a flap on it so you can pull it straight up and out, and replacing it is as simple as pushing it back down.

    I suspect you connecting the VGA would work, except you arent switching the laptops output, one normally must use a keyboard to activate VGAout. Look for Fn+F5 or similar.


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    Niall0001
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭Niall0001


    ED E wrote: »
    Take it back down again, you've forgot to reconnect something. We can assume its the screen. Its usually a small connector about an inch long with a flap on it so you can pull it straight up and out, and replacing it is as simple as pushing it back down.

    I suspect you connecting the VGA would work, except you arent switching the laptops output, one normally must use a keyboard to activate VGAout. Look for Fn+F5 or similar.

    Thing is, the keyboard isn't working. & I just had a look to double check & everything's plugged in where it should be.

    Haven't screwed it shut yet. Could that have a bearing on it?


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    ED E
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    Screws arent important, except in the case of bezels with buttons in them, but I assume the power button works so you're ok there.

    Does it beep when it boots, if so how many times/long or short?


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    Niall0001
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭Niall0001


    ED E wrote: »
    Screws arent important, except in the case of bezels with buttons in them, but I assume the power button works so you're ok there.

    Does it beep when it boots, if so how many times/long or short?

    No beeps & still have keyboard unplugged. Should I plug the keyboard back in or would this make a difference?


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