I like learning how to repair broken laptops. There are so many out there for a bargain that need repairs.

Nice fix mate, love your content. I learn so much here! I'm a noob today, but, i wish someday be so good as you.

dude I haven't even owned a laptop in like 11 years lol, yet still enjoy these teardowns, fix something, and rebuild videos. my mom got me a tv for Christmas probably in 03 and I immediately took it apart haha. Have always enjoyed tinkering with electronics. you've just helped with the stuff I didn't/still ain't good at which is tracing the circuits , replacing contents ect . Thanks 🤟

I wanted to add one thing: Don't be tempted to re-use the existing metal hinges, even though they look and feel fine. They're not. HP uses a hinge lubricant known to dry up and thicken over time. I sometimes call it a warranty timer. Eventually, the hinges become so stiff that you're exerting 60+ lbs. of force on the plastic mounting posts every time you operate the lid, and the posts just snap off, causing the hinges detach as they did here. So it's critical to replace the hinges with new ones with fresh lubricant. However, There is an EASY way to re-use the existing hinges, but it takes a little extra time. There is a :"clutch nut" on the end of each hinge which you can loosen around 1/8th of a turn with pliers and vice grips to reduce the force needed to operate the hinge. Loosen it too much and the lid won't stand upright, so you have to be careful. That, plus a little bit of spray silicon lubricant on the old hinges, will not only give the hinges a new life, but will prevent this problem from ever happening again. It's actually a more permanent fix than replacing the hinges, since the lubricant in the new hinges will thicken just as before after a few years. I've been fixing laptops professionally for over13 years and have personally repaired this model HP more than once.

15:28 - "drop this into place" - that might be a good explanation of why we come to be here today.

He only vid that shows wiring thank you

Excellent work.

GreAt knowledge and great visions... and skills!!! Appreciate it.

Great Video as always i always order the covers as well as they are about £4.95 just to keep everything new looking

I always do a thorough cleaning of the LCD face before I put the bezel back in place. It can be difficult to get into the corners of the bezel to clean the LCD surface later, so why not clean the entire surface when it's readily available? Also, the bezel will cover areas that may be dirty, so cleaning the LCD beforehand gets rid of contaminants that may squeeze past the bezel later. At that point, I switch to medical gloves to prevent oils/fingerprints transferring from my hands. Handing back a pristine laptop makes for a great look to the client.

@chrisharvie-smith486

3 жыл бұрын

RS Foam cleanser works a treat to clean plastics of finger residue. Paintbrush to work it through the keyboard & microfibre towel to remove. If replacement parts are not available or you are keeping the hinge: Solvent weld carefully. Over time the grease in the hinge leaves & it becomes stiffer. Then opening/closing starts to pull too hard on the embedded nuts & it starts to snap the plastic or undo the screws (if very lucky). This starts as the floppy for part of its travel stage & the last chance for an easy repair without new parts or several stages of fix. The hinge tensioner can be undone slightly to get it back to reasonable force to open/close. So it works with monkey strength not gorilla strength :-) This is usually the fault that caused the break. So if you only bought new plastic parts it still needs to be done to re-use the hinge without repeating the fault damage. Loose screws can be tightened AFTER adding a drop of low/medium strength thread-locker. Most glues don't bond well. I used to drill small holes & wire together with epoxy on top but found a better way as follows: Back to new. Cracked plastic can be repaired with a small bottle of (usually) acetone solvent with (abs) plastic added in until single cream / batter thickness. Acetone is known as nail polish remover (but get your own don’t pinch it !). It will fully dissolve abs & settle over a day with thicker at the bottom & thinner at the top. This IS what you need so don’t shake. Caution: Solvent used so don’t breathe it in during use or drying ! You need fresh air. Start with the base that usually also has damage but is better hidden. Any spills learning are not very visible there :-) Align & paint the inside of the bare crack with a little of the runnier mix from top of the bottle to key/melt/join into the surface flush. Taping the outside over the crack can help align & prevent leakage. If in doubt put a little on & let it tack together then move along the crack. Let that dry for an hour & fill between the snapped off bit and where it came from with the bottom of the bottle mix more like mayo/mayonnaise. In particular apply between the plastic reinforcement webbing snapped off ### and the lid/case it should be part of. It does not need to be filled solid but just a fillet (in the corners). It needs at least 4 days to dry out SLOWLY. The filler actually melts into the surrounding plastic & then hardens for a strong join. Do NOT move the hinge, apply any heat or leave it in the sun as it needs time to merge rather than boiling off the solvent into bubbles before it has joined. I usually leave it alone for a full week so it is better than ‘as new’. If you are impatient & disturb it early you can add a bit more runny & wait longer. I can’t tell how warm it is where you left it or how gloopy you mixed the glue so your mileage will vary (time needed to dry). Keep an eye out for the screws you try to tighten/loosen that the embedded nut spins as it has let go of the plastic. The runny mix can wick into the gap well but it needs the screw removing first so it doesn’t go into the threads & prevent tightening/loosening permanently ! It still needs the time to dry. If you fix several damaged cases then you end up having various colours of plastics in bottles to match each case. Particularly useful when the bezel has been snapped & the crack will be on the seen surface. It can also join/fill other broken areas on the case such as around the power in socket. Some mousepad buttons use S shaped plastic springs to hold buttons in pace without a separate metal spring. With care to prevent wicking they can be fixed. They need a slight gap so not to glue them to the surface they are next to.

I very much appreciate your opting out of the KZread mid-roll advertisements. Many other channels I watch do not opt out and the ads are becoming oppressive. I literally counted 10 ads in the first 20 minutes of a video recently. I understand that YT needs to make a profit, but I think they are seriously overdoing the mid-roll ads. I hope more channels follow your lead and opt out.

@jonchapman6821

3 жыл бұрын

KZread needs to make a profit? KZread are trying to be the new Netflix, they have no need for content creators anymore, they’re either demonetising videos entirely or they’re adding extra ads and not paying their creators for them, it’s an absolute sh*t show

Adamant IT @ 2:22 : "It's really hard to explain this method" Me: As a previous owner of a hp laptop with broken hinge, it is really easy to understand what you are trying to explain.

Here's a tip for you Adam, On these laptops that are showing signs of age and the hinges are being a problem - This is because the nuts that hold the friction are a bit to tight and - what I did with my old Toshiba was adjusted the friction tension so that the hinges are not over stressed - this is done by undoing the nuts by 90 degrees or a quarter turn and the stress is reduced...

That screw driver sound's like a dentist drill at speed 😳

@jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj454

3 жыл бұрын

How u know it isn’t just with a different head

Same problem in my laptop bt after watching this I successfully change my laptop hings. Now working fine Thanks 😃👍

What a great video l really happy to watch bz its my existing issue, thank a lot.

I have always hated laptop hinges with a passion for reasons like this but I still think their designs are super fascinating!

that aluminium sheet is not only for grounding but also helps in getting good WiFi signal

I had one of those terrible laptops for just under a year before I gave up and bought an Asus TUF. In that time, the space bar stopped working, the left click had to be pressed in the centre, both display hinges didn't break, but the thread that held them onto the chassis ripped right out of the plastic. I used loads of resin to completely fuse the hinges to the chassis of the laptop. In the end, every single USB Port, the webcam and the SD Card reader stopped working, and it became incredibly unstable and wouldn't run with Dual Channel RAM. Worse £349 I had ever spent on a laptop, especially when I only got a 28 day warranty.

Благодарочка, именно потому что разбор такой полный, набрано аж 14к просмотров

Loctite Threadlocker Blue 242 removable was designed exactly for these applications and holds the screws in until you remove them with a screwdriver. If you applied too much and the screw doesn’t come out use a little heat gun or the tip of a soldering iron until it softens up and you can get the screw out. This used to happen with Dell all the time before they learned their lesson.

Damn, no 3080 teardown - how refreshing :)

You look like the singer from The Lamb of God, keep it up! I'm learning a lot.

Finally something to watch that isn't commercial ..

Fixed one this week. Usually I have to replace back cover, hinges, (and the top cover/palm rest which also breaks a lot). Otherwise, The quick fix: loosen the hinge nuts and epoxy everything back together and tell them to save up for a new PC (until it breaks again).

Thank you for this informative video. I want to mention that you forgot to transfer the under-display foam cushions from the old screen cover.

This video was good but once I got the thing apart I realized that the thin little plastic housings that hold the brass bushings for the screws had completely disintegrated so I had nothing to screw the new hinges into anyways. 😅 Thanks HP. I wouldn't expect anything else from modern engineering. 🤦‍♂️

Thnx bro ur video helped me a lot to fix my laptop by my self ✌

this video helped me alot JAZAKILLAH thank you

I do a lot of hinge repairs at my shop, since I work in a low income area most times most people don't want to go for a replacement so I always offer to epoxy the hinge to the back cover for free. It's not a permanent solution but it works and people always appreciate the help

that was some super fast cleaning hahaha

Don't know if anyone has mentioned, but I would have given the fan assembly a good going over with compressed air. That would save the customer bringing it back in the near future due to it overheating.

The little cooling fan appears to have some dust buildup, which could be improved with an application of compressed air.

@billob4285

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that and said to myself "why not clean that fan?".

@aschris87

3 жыл бұрын

He didn't get paid to clean the fan it's that simple

@billob4285

3 жыл бұрын

@@aschris87 using your line of reasoning he got paid to replace the screen hinges, not clean it.

Thank you..good video

Got the same model with the same side boken. If you are not concerned about looks why pay for a new replacement that has the same weak point? Going to drill and tap metal plates each side of the lid. Then adjust the friction on the hinges which are so stiff the casing flexes. If I am working near the CPU fan, I clean it and repaste the CPU. The laptop will run cooler, quieter and if it was really clogged up helps prevent overheating shutdowns. Oh and I clean the screen last. Just found your videos and subscribed. I also have a dead graphics card to play with.

Thank you

Thank you. it helped

Thank You

Had a similar problem back in 2015 where my HP Envy dv7's bottom case broke exactly where the screws would go in. Every time I opened it up, the left side where the single fan was and power jack was would open up. When I opened up the laptop it only had a single heatpipe for both the hot i7 3630qm and GT635M, so my theory is that the plastic screw moulding just couldn't withstand the heating and cooling that area would have experienced. I looked online for a replacement shell, but couldn't find any adorable ones (it was around 180USD) At that point I had the laptop for two and a half years, so I just waited a bit for a decent sale and bought a Dell Inspiron 7559 (still one of my all time favorite laptops)

Nice repair video. HP 15-bs laptop repair process is identical for anyone interested. Useful for sure getting kit with everything included even the hinge covers plus some screws. Absolutely true that these laptops are not built to last. Poor design on a device intended to be carried around from place to place.

you should use a thread locker for screws in hinges...they will loosen in a while. Dell experience :D

I use epoxies and adjust the tork of the hinge so it gets more soft and assemble, i let it perfect and if the hinge is broken i use bronce soldering.

Thanks again! When I repair computers, I kinda steer away from accepting repair jobs involving hinges and LCDs. So I'm just fascinated with how you made it look easy in your video.

@em0_tion

3 жыл бұрын

Because he just bought spare new parts and replaced them, he didn't "fix" shit. 99% of people on this planet will tell you "that's too expensive for my cheap ass laptop, are you mental?" xD Get some broken ones and start fixing, don't let fear stop you from new knowledge and experience ;)

@zulu6756

3 жыл бұрын

@@em0_tion laptop repair always takes up more time than a tower in most cases especially on cheaper models and most techs are well aware of that, so how else is he actually going to fix it hmm, solder or glue it back together? if the parts are damaged the best way to repair it is to replace the broken parts, and i'm pretty sure he's got other computers lined up to repair too.

@em0_tion

3 жыл бұрын

@@zulu6756 kzread.info/dash/bejne/lHmLmLawabeek8o.html&ab_channel=RCompHacks for example

@zulu6756

3 жыл бұрын

@@em0_tion that's so crazy you cannot be serious man, that would take hours to fix a laptop that way you know that? there would be nothing to gain from using these kind of techniques and then the customer would be getting very impatient waiting on their laptop to get repaired its common sense, and the glue is only going to hold the pieces together for a short while, its just going to be a matter of time before they have to bring the same problem back in again, this is more for a hobbyist than a real working technician.

@em0_tion

3 жыл бұрын

@@zulu6756 Well, i just gave you an example as to what i understand when it comes to actually "fixing" broken hinges. Personally i take the approach of gluing them together and building them back like a dentist :) Yes, the client won't receive the laptop in half an hour, but my approach isn't such to begin with. I stray away from clients that want everything NOW and i've fixed countless of hinges. Just matter of explaining to the customer, most of them are understandable human beings when it comes to paying less for a fix then to order replacements parts which are far more expensive and take more time to arrive... I don't spend a lot of time on the actual work, it's just a lot of pauses for the glue to cure, which is ok - i do other repairs meanwhile ;) Let's say they bring the laptop in on Monday, by Thursday it's tested, cleaned, reinstalled and made to look like new. No wait and a happy customer. After spending 3 to 5 years of destroying their tech daily, 3 to 5 days of staying without it to get it back to excellent shape is more than acceptable for 99% of them :) Works for me, maybe not for you and your clients and that's totally fine. P.S. Most of my repairs come back years later for cleaning again and everything holds strong, disassembly is not obstructed either ;) Overall gain is more money for you, instead of giving them to the parts' importers.

i love your electrical knowledge of video cards you should do some video card shunt mods and such in modifying pcb's to be more optimal

Smashing repair :-D The brass inserts in the plastic can move around and crack the pathetic plastic mouldings, skimping again :-( My four million year old Acer Aspire 5315 has some minor cracks, but it is old and has two antennas. Wafer thin cases are very silly, i like chunky ones but i'm an old git so meh lol. Modern laptops are just junk, too much merging of chips make them a pointless repair :-(.

14:35 u read my mind

hi there, thanks for the explanation... one consideration: having noticed that the back-cover inner screws crack because of the unusual and unnecessary tightness of the hinges themselves, is there a way along the process to uptight them a bit? they stiffness put too much stress over the whole upper monitor case when flipping it open and closed. thanks a lot again.

Great!

Excellent video ! How much does the replacement kit costs ?

i had broken one of my hinge covers upon replacing bottom base , hinge screws had tore out anchors on bottom , not to mention couple other mishaps , chipped screen bezel upon disassembly , then waiting a few weeks for parts to arrive .. i did loosen just a bit on hinge swivel nuts to release a bit on tension upon opening/closing lid as to not happen again .. ?

Cool 🤓👍

As long as HP males laptops you'll have business :O

I've a G7-2217cl that possibly needs it's bottom cover replaced. Left side will not close flush despite screw all in the way inside. Either hinge and or bottom cover broken inside. Better to buy new than buying 10 year old replacement part(s)?

You didn't put thread locker on the screws, just a nice touch of secure fit.

half of that hinge mounts to the palm rest case. And I had broken screw receptacles there also. So I had to stop and order a new palm rest. While I'm at it I'm getting a new keyboard. It's worn off also. Still not a bad option with the cost of laptops and chip shortages.

@tedstriker754

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSpotify95 Well I did it, and with the price increases in laptops that helped to justify it. I had recently done what you said with a Dell Vostro, which wasn't worth fixing. I pulled the hard drive, memory and the rest in the trash. It was too soon to go through the same thing again. The keyboard I put in the HP has already died, so I plugged in a usb one and it's still going. Not replacing it again.

Perhaps some grease and thread lock would have been beneficial, personally I’d hot glue it aka sorin style but your fix is much more cleaner. Ps my mate vince needs your help check out his laptop video 😂

Antennas? If you put in a Wifi card, does it matter which antenna pops onto which of the 2 tiny socket if its a diff card? i see sometime red goes with red ect or numbered, but are both antennas equal so doesant matter or? BTW- Great channel- found yours just recently and now going back through all your back vids. Lots of shorts vids and tricks to pick up here.

On the wifi bit. You can not even put an other wifi card in to give you a double wifi aerial. the battery is in the way.

how do you know whats the correct amount of volts in a component? you can tell if a component is failty by the amount of volts that it has, howd you do it without schematic

where would you buy the hinges replacement from? I did not see where you get these hinges. Great video as well . thanks

@mattscomp

Жыл бұрын

Ebay or Aliexpress

good old hp 15-dw

Hi author. I want to ask something, this is not related to your, recently i bought a phanteks rgb strip lights, the problem is its port is a 3 pin which i dont have on my mobo (a320M-A Pro max) cheap mobo it is. I want my rgb to be functional and i dont want to purchase another hub for the phantek strip light. Is therr anythin i can do to make my phatnkes strip light functional? Thank you

The reason I don't ever recommend hp laptops. I have used epoxy to fix these when replacing the body was not an option.

@tonybarden8563

3 жыл бұрын

made me chuckle ,remembering the acer 3610 .......and you thought HP had issues with plastic lids and self destructing hinge screws..........

Is that possible to use this same hinge top 15.6 inches replacement for 15-cs series?

How the antenna cables are connected ? cable 1 were cable 2 were ? in A and B antenna point of connection.

Do the hp bw and hp gw have interchangeable screens/lid covers. Trying to find the cheapest replace,ent parts and found a black on that looks exactly like the one you’ve used, but it’s labelled hp gw….. otherwise they look exactly the same

What is that nifty little screwdriver you use? NVM. Found your video on it. :)

Labour costs/parts availability must be good in the UK Where I’m from it would have been cheaper to just replace the laptop than pay someone for that repair

HP stands for Hinge Problems

Same problem with my same HP laptop. 🧐 But two more problems occurred in my laptop i.e. 10+ keyboard keys are not working & battery needs to replace. While starting up error msg show (601 error detected) please replace your battery or press enter to continue startup.. So my question is >> What's the estimated cost of repairing?

Will you be doing a video on the rtx 3000 series

I strayed to My Mate Vince. : )

Man i have trouble with my pc i tried resiting cpu , ram change and removing gpu and using the onboard gpu .. it still not posting . My motherboard is msi b150m night elf and i3 6gen , when i press the power button the pc torn on with max fan speed and i feel the cpu heatsink heating up but no post , it just continue to turn no shutdown sequence or anything

Sir this is not rebuilding this is replacing but well done

It's really weird to see how everybody is eventually adopting the electric screwdriver now - despite the early resistance to them!!! I wouldn't be without mine now : it's just so quick.

@Adamant_IT

3 жыл бұрын

I've not been using mine this week, and weirdly I've been like 'urrgh... I have to do it by hand, like some kind of peasant...'

@gxc90

3 жыл бұрын

@@Adamant_IT Hi, just curious if any of the items you post that was purchased on Amazon UK, like the electric screwdriver, is it available on Amazon in Canada? Thanks PS: Your videos are very interesting to watch, without going overboard :)

@mariolemerise7732

3 жыл бұрын

@@gxc90 yes www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07VPHBW6S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Have you one on a HP15-d051sa Energy Star

How much would it cost for repairing outside

Now I'm worried about this Probook 4540S which appears to use the same kind of hinge and upper case.

i've got the same problem with a hp envy 13-ad141tu. Where do i find replacement parts from? It's missing a lot of the screws as well. Cheers

@Adamant_IT

2 жыл бұрын

I start on eBay, the back of the screen is called the Lid, so search for "hp 13-ad lid". If you can't find a match, next port of call is Aliexpress, who usually have everything if you don't mind waiting for china shipping.

@JojinKang

2 жыл бұрын

@@Adamant_IT wow, you actually replied. Thanks mate i'll try that! 👍

My HP Laptop held 9 years was a ProBook 4710s, the screen broke because i stepped on it. Never leave your laptop lying in front of your bed.

HAHA I just had 2 of this same model come in my shop 2/3 days ago for the same issue.

My son's Acer Aspire ES1-572 has the same problem. I fixed it once with epoxy but it's come apart again - I can't seem to find the top lid anywhere. Do you know if they are interchangable with other models or a better place to look for them - or should I just epoxy it better this time? lol

@tonybarden8563

3 жыл бұрын

try an ebay search using the part number of the lid (remember to check the search description option)

@Adamant_IT

3 жыл бұрын

Try searching by 'acer aspire es1 top lid' rather than the full es1-572. But make sure you look real close at the pictures and your broken top lid to ensure the screw holes match up. If eBay's out, try Aliexpress. Longer delivery because china, but they've usually got anything you need.

@stormriderstudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonybarden8563 Thanks, via searching for the part number list online I found the right term to search for on ebay ("lcd cover" rather than "top lid"), I guess different makes have different descriptions...

Cooling fan full of dust?

Can you send links for the parts pleasee

when taking things apart, the biggest issue I have is not the actual repair job itself, its undoing all the different screws. It is so difficult to remember where all the screws go when you put it back together.

@Graham_Langley

3 жыл бұрын

Simple - use an Ice cube tray. Put the screws in it in the order you removed them.

how much was the repair cost?

GPU fan could have done with a can of air to clean all that dust out of fan fins.

Hello sir ... I need urgent help please .... I have a HP laptop MOD: 15-n021se Computer problem is a terribly high temperature and the device turns off after a few minutes and affects the screen card ... I tried to replace the cooling paste, clean the fan, the heat sink ,And replaced the cooling fan ... etc. ... it did not work ... So what do I do ... Thank you ... and thanks for the quick reply. Translation by Google.

@dancoster7332

3 жыл бұрын

Does the heat pipe get hot at both ends? It could be that the heat pipe has been damaged, collapsed or was poorly manufactured and doesn't conduct heat well enough.

9:05 are you sure that metal strip isnt grounded to the wifi aerial ?

@Adamant_IT

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. I'm not sure why they actually have foil on the antenna 'sticker', as you want it to be isolated.

I wish u could fix my Alienware area 51m the cpu keeps going up to 100 degrees when I play games

If I was to have something like that repaired I would at least give it a wipedown before.

Mine broke today and I bet its expensive to fix it😭😭

Did you get an original HP kit for this?

@Adamant_IT

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on your definition of original. Certainly the parts are identical, but I did not buy from HP. Although if HP want to sell me OEM parts at an agreeable price, from an accessible online store, I'm more than happy to buy direct.

I think you cut too many corners on this repair. I enjoy your videos and the way you pronounce "H"ach. Keep making the videos.

I wonder why did you replace the lid and not only hinges?

@Adamant_IT

3 жыл бұрын

The hinge breaks because all the screw holes in the lid are broken. Both need to be replaced for a long-term fix.

@davidm7640

3 жыл бұрын

@@Adamant_IT Thank you for clarification. I thought that could be fixed too.

My friend didn't want to spend 30€ on a new back cover and we had to glue all the screw holes 😭😭😭😭😭😭 the result was a piece of modern art sculpture, but it worked 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

I've recently been looking at running an external graphics card on laptops using either the expresscard slot or removing the internal wifi card and using that slot instead (then plug in a usb wifi dongle). But you end up with something which isn't very pretty (the setup also needs it's own dedicated PSU for the GFX card). Has anyone here done this and if so : does/will it eventually thrash then trash the laptop itself??? I've been desktop/tower free for 10 years and I'm not gonna give in too easily.

@Jasontvnd9

3 жыл бұрын

You could always just buy a gaming laptop , the i7 10750h + RTX2060 combination most have is proper desktop replacement level.

@sparrowbe4k802

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jasontvnd9 Thx. That type of laptop is an expensive hammer to crack a very small nut. I was just thinking that the external GFX would be better than the high power consumption of a full tower. I think I'll trial the external anyway just to see how it behaves. I've decided to buy a tower anyway so the cost for the GFX card & psu comes out of the price of the external experiment.

Im actually triyng to repair an hp laptop that has water damage, and all the plastic is just so weak and cheap

Mine broke today, I don’t know what to do.

My Samsung needs to be fixed. Two hinges, top cover and back. 300 dollars Canadian... (its aSamsung NP3530EC-A0CDX i3 2328M and not worth more than a 20 dollar upgrade).