760EL Video and other problems... Is this laptop worth it??

[disneyman]

Hello All
Another newbie to the forums checking in. I was given a 760el The video supposedly just stopped working. The fellow tried a different LCD but still no go. What I got was a 760el with a cracked case and busted latch, no power supply, no floppy drive, an extra lcd of unknown condition and a dock. I hooked an 16 volt supply using some jumpers and an external monitor and was able to test options. I couldn't get it to boot. It has an old compaq HDD with the jumper pins clipped.
I carefully disassembled and checked all the connections(I'm definately not the first one to tear in this) but still no lcd. not even a flicker.
I guess I'm trying to figure out if I should stop here or if there are some other things to try before I give up. I guess I would be more enthused if either I could get the LCD going or if I could get the Hard Drive to boot.
Anybody got any thought whether I should continue or how to verify good or bad parts?

Thanks in advance
Brian

[AlphaKilo470]

If the LCD won't show picture, even after replacing it, then your problem is either in the inverter, the videocard or the cable. As for the hard drive having the jumper pins clipped off, that's because on hard drives above 3gb, you had to do that for the 760 to recognize them unless you have a caddy that was made after mid-1997.

As far as the laptop itself is concerned, I'd use it for parts. You could probably find a 760 on eBay with all the parts that yours is missing and you could build a working unit out of the two. I wouldn't go afterthe parts individually however, that would probably cost alot more.

[thinkie]

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[disneyman]

Hello AK et al
I was thinking that it might not be worth it to try to fix it but hate to give up. I never found out if either LCD was really good so I'd have to start replacing parts just to see if one was. I wish there was a way to test them off the laptop. Also the drive is small ~700megs and using by using an odd adapter we have at work I can look at the drive on a PC. It seems to have some sort of dos tools on it but for some reason the 760 is looking for a floppie. I'm not sure how to get it to recognize the hard drive and I don't have the floppie to load stuff with.
I'l try to tinker some more...Any suggestions would be great!!

THanks
disneyman

[disneyman]

Hello
In case anyone was following this and was curious...
I found that one LCD hada bad inverter and the "new" lcd had a bad cable. Apparently someone must have just ripped it out as the cable into the laptop was full of shorts. lcd now working fine!! (I just have to get the right drivers for the display to go full screen)
The hard drive was just screwed up, period. There was no os and no sys on the drivbe so the lappie couldn't do anything with it. I was able to use an adapter on my pc and bring it back to life with fdisk and format an put win 95 install on it so now the laptop is up and running!!!!

Thanks to everyone here for suggestions and comments
Brian