How to make my laptop run like a Desktop?

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Shafty

Joined Apr 25, 2023
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I have a Dell Vostro 15 3568 Laptop for the past 8 years. Have changed the keyboard and upgraded to an SSD through an external local vendor before 4 years. Before 2 weeks my laptop tumbed down on the floor making the external keyboard (usb) crashing into its screen damaging its display. Succesfully seperated the damaged screen and ordered a new display by referencing the part number of the screen. It look almost 10 days for the newly ordered screen to arrive. In the mean time, I had my damaged screen intact and accessing my laptop to an external HDMI Monitor. Everything was fine until I decided to remove the old screen from my laptop by myself. I don't know what went wrong but my laptop was turning off exactly after a minute with a beep. I assumed that, Some PC makers restricted the machines with some mandatory connections to pe present. Soon my new Display arrived. I connected everything and my laptop is fine for the first run with the new display but from the second time (after fitting the screen inside the chassis) the new screen also started showing grains everywhere. I seriously still doubt that the current problem is not display but some cables related. So I thought of unplugging the display and fiting it again. Unfortunately., The cable got de-soldered on my hands. It' a 30 pin Full HD. I gues Totally I need to replace 2 cables which I removed from the laptop. One is the 30 pin Full HD cable and other is the power cable where the WLAN intel chip was also soldered with which goes to the laptop screen. I thought the second cable is the power cable to display. Now, my Laptop is not turning on. What to do? Please Help. Thanks.

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Shafty

Joined Apr 25, 2023
327
Guys. Please Help. I am in a Digital SOS situation. It's been 2 weeks after I used a computer. How many days I have to survive typing in a mobile phone. Fingers hurt. Please reply. Thanks.
 

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Shafty

Joined Apr 25, 2023
327
Hate to say it, but 8 years is not a bad life for a heavily-used (and abused) laptop.

Take the L, and get a new (or less used) one.
Sentimentally attached to it. Very Lucky one. I got so many of my software clients only after buying that.
 

bertus

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Shafty

Joined Apr 25, 2023
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Hello,

If your budget is limited perhaps you can get hold of an old laptop.

Perhaps in a thriftshop or second hand shop.

Linux will run on almost any older laptop.

(I use OpenSuse Tumbleweed: https://www.opensuse.org/#Tumbleweed )

Kicad ( https://www.kicad.org/ )is direct available for OpenSuse.

LTspice ( https://www.analog.com/en/resources/design-tools-and-calculators/ltspice-simulator.html ) will run in Wine on the linux PC.

OpenSuse , Kicad and LTspice can be downloaded for free.



Bertus
But I am an Ms Office Automation Developer. Short said a "Microsoft" VBA Developer. All the Technologies so far I learned are Microsoft Based. That's why critical.
 
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