UL80J Best Buy Broken Screen

This laptop was bought open box from best buy on black friday. It was an open box. I don't know how it broke I don't remember it being hit or anything but it's broken. Now does best buy asus laptops get the accidental damage protection? If not, what are my options.

 

They do not get the accidental, comes with reseller models that have the two year regular warranty's.

Options, other than anything obvious I can spit out... not sure.

 

Your best option in all honesty would be to purchase a new screen and put it in yourself. Best Buy will probably not take it back and ASUS will not replace it free of cost. By the sound of it, it wasn't broken when purchased so it must have happened somehow unknown.

But yeah, check ebay or google shopping for best price and replace the screen yourself.

 

Well, it sounds like pretty well known.

I have never seen a laptop screen broken without being noticed. This is not something like dropping a pin or something like that...


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Well that wasn't exactly how I meant it but thanks for the ever so enlightened response that helped move this thread along.

 

Yeah thanks. How hard is it to put in a new screen?

 

Depends on the model, and your comfort with moderate dissasembly of the notebook.

You generally have to pull the keyboard and remove the top chassis and shield to get at the motherboard, then take the LCD fully apart to expose the inverter, connectors, antennas and screen, and put everything back together again without breaking something.

New lcd screen is going to run you $200-300 depending on source, and if you need to have someone else do the work then add at least $75-100 or more.

 

Well I found this one on ebay for $70 bucks with shipping. It has an install guide near the bottom. Is this what I'd have to do. I feel comfortable doing it if I have a clear guide on how to do it.

 

That should work for you, and that guide is for a dell by the looks of it but its pretty similar, there is no need to get at the mobo for most laptops, usually around the screen there are some rubber bumpers, you carefully remove those and set aside, take out the hidden screws underneath them and then carefully pop the bezzle from the back, at that point its more screws to take out that are holding the LCD to the frame, removing the connectors on the back of the LCD, reasemble in reverse.