Finding parts number

Goldenleaves · Jul 17, 2011

Computer disaster zone at the minute. The good old imac started smoking and the Vaio laptop vpc12m0e I was given got dropped, completely cracking the screen, which is now unusable.

I'm completely skint and can barely pay the bills so I'm
trying to find a cheap replacement screen. I've looked all over trying to find

a. the parts number of the screen.

b. which other laptops have compatible screens (so I can maybe buy a 'for parts' one and swap the screens)

but I'm having no luck at all. Obviously I must be using the wrong keywords or something. Can anyone help or advise?

Bigglesworth · Jul 17, 2011

Can you double-check the Vaio's model number - I'm not getting any hits off 'vpc12m0e'.

Goldenleaves · Jul 17, 2011

Sorry, it's VPCF12M0E

Bigglesworth · Jul 17, 2011

You can get a replacement screen here. Not cheap, though =(

Williebee · Jul 17, 2011

Nope, "cheap" won't be the word. As for the parts number, it's behind the screen. You have to remove it to get a look. Good luck!

Goldenleaves · Jul 17, 2011

Thanks, I did see that. The trouble is that it doesn't list the parts number (so I can hunt down cheaper ones) or tell me which other laptops the same screen will fit (also so I can hunt down cheaper ones).

The cheapest one I've found so far is £75, but I think if I can get the above info I can maybe get the screen cheaper and fit it myself. Currently I can't spend £75 if I want to eat this month.

Goldenleaves · Jul 17, 2011

Behind the screen eh? Thanks!

Would any other sony laptop screen of the same size work on it?

Goldenleaves · Jul 17, 2011

Oh, wait, I'll probably be able to find that out when I get the part number won't I? Double :e2flowers

Bigglesworth · Jul 17, 2011

Not sure how useful this might be, but have a look at this list of VPC-F1 parts. Unfortunately the site doesn't have your exact model, but about a third of the way down the page is a group of screens, together with part numbers.

Goldenleaves · Jul 17, 2011

Yes, that is useful, I at least have something to work with now. I was drawing a complete blank (which I hate). Once I whip off the screen I'll be able to work backwards and see which other laptops can use the screen.

Then I can start trawling. :Thumbs:

blacbird · Jul 17, 2011

Goldenleaves said:
Computer disaster zone at the minute. The good old imac started smoking and the Vaio laptop vpc12m0e I was given got dropped, completely cracking the screen, which is now unusable.

Welcome to the 21st century. You're better off just buying a new laptop. That is not a joke. Computer manufacturing has now advanced to the Bic Pen point, where repair is not an option.

Bic Pens, for the uninitiated, were an enormous and profitably breakthrough back in the 1960s. Pens so cheap, when one went bad, you just bought another. Or, more likely, bought a dozen in a box, cheaper by unit price, even. Prior to that you used fountain pens, either with a kind of draw-up reservoir where you got your ink from a bottle, or a replaceable ink bladder. Try to find those things today.

Computers are now at that point. I have a tiny Acer subnotebook, about 2/1 years old, and the screen has begun having issues, connectivity dependent on angle of tilt. The thing cost about $400 when bought. A replacement will now cost about $300, possibly less. There is no way it can be repaired.

This is the new paradigm for single-unit computers. With a desktop that still has a completely separate screen, you can just replace the screen if it goes bad, but with a laptop style computer, you just replace the entire damn thing. Nobody will repair it for less than that would cost, methinks.

Actually, you'll play hell trying to find anybody who will repair it at all.

caw

Goldenleaves · Jul 18, 2011

I'm pretty sure it can be replaced with a bit of study and patience. Being broke is a HUGE advantage in these matters - makes you more ambitious, technically speaking. During various periods of brokedom I've so far managed to fix a washing machine, a television, a printer, a vacuum cleaner and various other bits and bobs.

My lengthy periods of horrible poverty are purely because I'm awful at money management. When I've had money, it got spent on wild and foolish things. Always, there's the belief I'll be more sensible next time. So far there has been next times (a miracle in itself), but the sensible bit just hasn't happened.

I'm working on something that might make me a good income at the minute (something apart from my writing). It might work, it might not. Either way it's interesting.

If money wasn't a problem I would just replace the laptop, but it is, so, why not just go ahead and give it a go? Not going to attempt the smoking Mac yet, that needs a bit more thought.

Fortunately my utterly brilliant son in law has sorted me out with some temporary equipment.

The really important thing is that all my work is backed up.

Bic pens are great and convenient, but I'll go out of my way to get certain other pens too.

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