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Help wanted with a falling Compaq Armada E500 Screen James 10-13-2007
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Posted by James on October 13, 2007, 5:30 pm
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I have an older Compaq Armada E500, which works perfectly well except the
screen falls down all the time. The screen used to have quite a bit of
resistance when you would lift it up and hence it would stay in the place
you put it. Now though it has almost no resistance, just wondered...is this
the sort of thing I could tighten up and fix?

Any help appreciated.



Posted by Barry Watzman on October 13, 2007, 6:21 pm
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In most cases the lid (screen) hinges re non-adjustable and the only fix
is to repair them. But a few (very few) can be adjusted. You need to
open the laptop and have a look around. You are probably looking at
replacement, but until you look you won't know for sure.


James wrote:
> I have an older Compaq Armada E500, which works perfectly well except the
> screen falls down all the time. The screen used to have quite a bit of
> resistance when you would lift it up and hence it would stay in the place
> you put it. Now though it has almost no resistance, just wondered...is this
> the sort of thing I could tighten up and fix?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
>

Posted by blazeracer on January 24, 2008, 9:48 am
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I have the same problem with my E500. Doing some research, I learned
these hinges are non adjustable. I found a set on e-bay for $10 and an
online service manual for free right here.

http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/linux/128679-004.pdf

It looks like about a 30 min process to replace the hinges. I'll let
you know how it goes if you still need yours fixed.

Blaze



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