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Do you mean that the hinges broke and the screen is no longer attached to the laptop. I googled '
Alienware M11X R2 screen' and one of the first results is a story from PC World which contains:
"Dell will repair broken hinges on any Alienware M11x system for any R1 or R2 customer worldwide regardless of warranty status," wrote Dell's John Blain, in a blog entry on the company's website.
A very dark blue screen on a laptop that otherwise appears to be "on" is a sign that the backlight on the screen portion of the computer may be burned out. You can test this by shining a flashlight on the screen. If you can see your desktop icons, the backlight is burnt out. Replacing a bad backlight is not a do-it-yourself task unless you are comfortable doing delicate electronic repairs and have the design schematics for your model in hand. Your safest course of action will always be to take the laptop to a professional repair depot. There is one alternative repair option available if you're not comfortable doing surgery and a trip to the repair shop is not in your budget. Replace the entire screen module, case and all.
Doing Surgery Yourself
1.Remove the battery from the laptop. With the laptop model schematics in front of you, use the small Phillips screwdriver to separate the monitor from the laptop base. The schematics will indicate how to uncover the monitor hinges and free the monitor. Handle the screen gently because it will still be tethered to the base by a group of wires. 2.Remove the plastic case covering the "power bar" on the upper part of the laptop keyboard base. Refer to the schematics to find the way to release this cover and lift it off the keyboard. You'll see a group of fine wires leading back to the monitor. Unplug this cable so the monitor is now free from the base. 3.Follow the schematics to remove the casing covering the monitor screen. Be forewarned that the design of a laptop monitor "under the hood" is complex and delicate. Don't force anything. Don't experiment. Take frequent photographs of each successful disassembly stage so you can have some hope of getting it all back together again correctly. 4.Find the slim fluorescent backlight instrument behind the glass layers of the screen. Unplug it from the tiny cable receptacles and remove it. Insert the fresh backlight fixture and reconnect it to the cable plug. 5.Restore the screen assembly and the casing using the schematics and your reference photographs. Plug the screen back into the laptop base at the power bar. Don't reattach the screen hinges to the base until after you have tested it by booting the laptop. If the test is successful, turn the laptop off and connect the screen to the base unit at the hinges.
Alternative Repair
1.Purchase an entire screen-and-case assembly for your laptop make and model. Many intact assemblies are available online for reasonable prices. You will usually pay slightly less for an entire screen-and-case unit than you would for a professional repair on just the backlight alone so this could be an economical alternative for you. You can save even more money by purchasing as "Used but Good" unit, rather than a new unit. 2.Remove your old screen following the previous section's Step 1 through Step 3. 3.Plug the new screen-and-case unit into the laptop base. Follow the schematics and your photographs and thread the monitor wires through the hinge passes. Restore the power bar cover. 4.Test your replacement repair by booting the laptop. If the screen looks normal, shut off the laptop and reattach the new screen to the base at the hinges. Restore the hinge covers.
The LCD monitor has some rubber cover around the edges next to the monitor screen. Take those off with your nail and unscrew all the screws. Remove the plastic cover and look down the bottom where the hinges are located. Unscrew those screws that hold the monitor onto hinges and also disconnect the video controller. Your LCD monitor can be taken apart now.
I fixed my with 100% Silicone RTV adhesive, just put the button back in the hole and apply a blob of RTV to what you left of the broken button hinges, the button is being held in place by small molded palstic hinges, it is a very cheap way of making button assembly for expensive monitor, they skimped on this one. http://s807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/budm/HP%20F2105/
Generally, the optical drive can be removed without taking the casing apart, just one screw holds it in under the laptop. If yours is one of those that does need to come apart, you will need to make sure that the two screwsat the rear of the laptop are undone. When you take the bexel off where the power button is, there will be two more screws holding the hinge in, they need to come out too. Then you need to remove the LCD screen before the rest of the case will come apart.
Sure you can, and it is pretty simple. First off, you want to remove the bezel that is between the F keys and the monitor hinges. There may be a little screw on the back side of each hinge cover, and also under the battery if the battery is below the hinges. Once you pry the bezel off, you can remove the little screws that are under the round covers on the glass side of the monitor. There should be 4 or 6 of them located on the monitor bezel. Once you remove these, you can separate the bezel on the glass side from the back of the monitor. There may be 2 or 4 screws that hold the LCD to the hinges that will have to be removed. Now you will be ready to unplug the monitor from both the motherboard and the inverter. Replace the new LCD in the reverse order.
New LCD's can be purchased from Ebay at a reasonable cost.
I know this may seem simple to you, and I'm not talking about the power light. Your monitor tilts up and down at the top of the stem connected to the base. At the top, where the stem connects to the back of the monitor is the hinge that allows the monitor to tilt up and down and it should be covered in plastic. You should be able to see what looks like a metal rod going through the stem and the monitor. If you squeeze together the plastic on both sides, they should come off to reveal the screws that hold the stem to the monitor.
As far as the power goes ... my first thought is a fuse (won't turn on and no power LED) or something has blown your power supply.
Generally speaking, LCD monitors have a plastic cover that snaps onto the back side which covers the hinge and screws holding the base plate 'post' to the monitor. Remove the cover, and remove the screws. The post that engages the base plate will come off with the hinge intact. tom
Depending on the model the base would be removed by the clips on the underside, push them in and lift the base off,
if the whole stand comes off there will be a catch on the back of the monitor under neath/behind where the hinge connects to the screen, you may have to pull hard but don't apply too much force or it may snap
He may have damaged the inverter or left the cables disconnected from the backlights. The inverter supplies the required voltage to the LCD Back lights.
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