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Hi all,
I have an issue with a laptop and I’m pretty much stuck. It came in with display issues. It was obvious it needed a screen replacement (half of screen was a blurry and bleeding, well just a mess and hooking it up to an external monitor worked just fine.) So I disassembled it, took out the screen, ordered a replacement. Easy as pie. Well… no.
Laptop is an ASUS UX31E Zenbook which has a 13.3" 16:9 HD+ (1600x900) LED Backlight screen.
Yes, an ultrabook and taking apart the screen was no fun at all (double sided tape…) . This is my first ever ultrabook screen replacement and I might just have done something wrong, or...?
When I received the replacement I immediately noticed I only received the LCD panel. When I disassembled the screen I took out that same part PLUS a couple of layers/sheets of white and semi-see-through sheets with a spectrum colored or 'oil-on-water-like’ glow over it, which were behind of it. I assumed (yes…. mother of all…) that I’d receive a complete screen, so with all that attached, place it in the back cover, tape it shut and move on to the next patient.
Now I’m stuck with the question: in which order do I put these layers back? I'm just happy I didn't throw them away immediately after disassembly. Luckily the client is not in a hurry, I already informed him of the delay.
The anatomy of a screen is unknown to me. I did plenty ‘normal’ replacements but never took apart the display itself.
These are those layers.
1 hard plastic / clear see-through.
2 white / non see-through.
3 blurry or milky semi see-through.
4 blurry or milky less than semi see-through with an ‘oil-on-water-like’ glow.
5 somewhat see-through with an ‘oil-on-water-like’ glow over it. The two sides are not identical. Looking through one side (holding it in front of me) shows me what’s behind of it but lower. Like a horizontal spectrum. The other side is a lot harder to see through due to a mirror-like effect.
6 Same as 5 but the see-through side seems to show objects in a vertical spectrum.
Now I could just try some different combinations and see which one works best but I’m hesitant detaching and re-attaching it so many times. Obviously, since it’s an ultrabook, all connections are a really small and fragile. Breaking something else in a testing process is not something I’d enjoy very much.
I searched the TN forums on ‘LED backlit’ and ‘LED backlight’ but none of the posts it found were relevant.
Through Google I found plenty of screen replacements (video’s and pictures) but nothing about the anatomy of this particular LED backlight.
Here is a video on Youtube I found. This guy takes apart the entire laptop but if you only watch between 43:00 and 44:00 you’ll see what I’m up against. This video does tell me that the white sheet is the last one.
Any help whatsoever would be appreciated.
I did contact the supplier because I just received the LCD panel and not a complete screen. I feel a screen is the LCD panel + backlight, all-in-one. (Am I right?) They advertise it as a screen, not an LCD panel.
They basically told me to replace the LCD panel and leave the LED backlight in place because an ultraslim model (like this one) is different than a regular LED backlit display. That info doesn't help very much.
Unfortunately I was unable to find a service manual on the interwebz, that might have helped.
Thanks in advance for any tips / help.
EDIT nov. 25th: maybe I should add that the LCD panel and the LED backlight never were 1 part as a whole to begin with. You can see in the video at 43:34 how he's needs to hold the sheets (part of the backlight) against the LCD panel so that they don't separate.
Of course I could have bought a complete screen assembly but that's just way too expensive.
I have an issue with a laptop and I’m pretty much stuck. It came in with display issues. It was obvious it needed a screen replacement (half of screen was a blurry and bleeding, well just a mess and hooking it up to an external monitor worked just fine.) So I disassembled it, took out the screen, ordered a replacement. Easy as pie. Well… no.
Laptop is an ASUS UX31E Zenbook which has a 13.3" 16:9 HD+ (1600x900) LED Backlight screen.
Yes, an ultrabook and taking apart the screen was no fun at all (double sided tape…) . This is my first ever ultrabook screen replacement and I might just have done something wrong, or...?
When I received the replacement I immediately noticed I only received the LCD panel. When I disassembled the screen I took out that same part PLUS a couple of layers/sheets of white and semi-see-through sheets with a spectrum colored or 'oil-on-water-like’ glow over it, which were behind of it. I assumed (yes…. mother of all…) that I’d receive a complete screen, so with all that attached, place it in the back cover, tape it shut and move on to the next patient.
Now I’m stuck with the question: in which order do I put these layers back? I'm just happy I didn't throw them away immediately after disassembly. Luckily the client is not in a hurry, I already informed him of the delay.
The anatomy of a screen is unknown to me. I did plenty ‘normal’ replacements but never took apart the display itself.
These are those layers.
1 hard plastic / clear see-through.
2 white / non see-through.
3 blurry or milky semi see-through.
4 blurry or milky less than semi see-through with an ‘oil-on-water-like’ glow.
5 somewhat see-through with an ‘oil-on-water-like’ glow over it. The two sides are not identical. Looking through one side (holding it in front of me) shows me what’s behind of it but lower. Like a horizontal spectrum. The other side is a lot harder to see through due to a mirror-like effect.
6 Same as 5 but the see-through side seems to show objects in a vertical spectrum.
Now I could just try some different combinations and see which one works best but I’m hesitant detaching and re-attaching it so many times. Obviously, since it’s an ultrabook, all connections are a really small and fragile. Breaking something else in a testing process is not something I’d enjoy very much.
I searched the TN forums on ‘LED backlit’ and ‘LED backlight’ but none of the posts it found were relevant.
Through Google I found plenty of screen replacements (video’s and pictures) but nothing about the anatomy of this particular LED backlight.
Here is a video on Youtube I found. This guy takes apart the entire laptop but if you only watch between 43:00 and 44:00 you’ll see what I’m up against. This video does tell me that the white sheet is the last one.
Any help whatsoever would be appreciated.
I did contact the supplier because I just received the LCD panel and not a complete screen. I feel a screen is the LCD panel + backlight, all-in-one. (Am I right?) They advertise it as a screen, not an LCD panel.
They basically told me to replace the LCD panel and leave the LED backlight in place because an ultraslim model (like this one) is different than a regular LED backlit display. That info doesn't help very much.
Unfortunately I was unable to find a service manual on the interwebz, that might have helped.
Thanks in advance for any tips / help.
EDIT nov. 25th: maybe I should add that the LCD panel and the LED backlight never were 1 part as a whole to begin with. You can see in the video at 43:34 how he's needs to hold the sheets (part of the backlight) against the LCD panel so that they don't separate.
Of course I could have bought a complete screen assembly but that's just way too expensive.
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