How to forum: can you change screen on samsung notebookoo

Most notebooks can be repaired but at what cost or ease of availability of parts. You didn't mention what model# you have and were talking about a physical item or some s/w setting as in desktop backgrd. screen. Provide more...

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Hi i have a samsung notebook 305V5A-A09 and unfortunatly Thursday evening some thieving jerk tried to rip out of my grasp and the end result being a rather large scratch across the top it as it is i am a stay at home mom with little income and the laptop being our comunication with our family if you can help me find affordable salution my kid and i would appreciate highly thankyou you for your time staci

Seeing that this thread is about the laptop screen, I assume the scratch you mean is on the screen, not on the other side.

- The most expensive solution: ask a repair shop to order a new screen and use it to replace the old one.
- A cheap solution: find the same laptop (with, say, a broken motherboard, so rather cheap) on eBay or freecycle or a site like that and do the repair yourself.
- Free: learn to live with it

Sorry, hardware isn't free, and technical expertise isn't free either, unless you have family or friend who can do it.

Kees

Let's be clear about this "scratch", so any repair is topical. An actual scratch and not any breakage of any type? Is this more of an annoyance than showing a display. if breakage, then replacement is the only cure. Depending on your skills or any *trusted* friend get the part from a laptop parts source. However, if only a scratch and omnipresent, then maybe the use of an LCD or CRT spare monitor can be done. Simply input the monitor into the spare video port and select that or it "auto-selects" or provides a menu to determine video output. Doing this allows to not repair anything provided the video signal still works and you now have access to a larger monitor or settle to have a unscratched display. You could even use your HD-TV provided it has and you get the required cable for connection and configure outputs. If display besides the scratch is actually a rotten display and thus damage, you can still use the video port for the time-being until repair is possible. This option is possible if a video signal is still present and you can see some initial display to allow you to select the 2nd display output. Google for ext. display options if this seems confusing but it really is easier than you think.

The specs link below offers that you have several video ports available:

http://www.notebook.tech-details.com/Samsung_305V5A/

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