Does anyone recognize this problem as being the LCD screen itself or the inverter?? Looking for opinions

Hello, someone brought me an HP G60 completely tore apart. Every single piece of the laptop was tore apart, including ever single screw. All the screws were mixed together in a bag, the wifi card screws were stripped bad, I mean really bad, and the hinge screw posts on the old and new LED screen back cover were broken, three on the old and three on the new one were broke from someone with no idea what they were doing trying to fix the broken hinge problem. So after 5 hours I put the entire laptop back together and fixed the screw posts with JB weld, After letting that get rock solid after a few days I put the hard drive and ram into it, fired it up, and got these vertical lines from the laptop screen. When the VGA is plugged into my monitor it comes in perfect so the GPU is ok. The guy who tried fixing this had the entire lid hanging by the wifi wires, inverter wire, and LED wire so I don't know if the inverter got messed up or the screen. I thought I would ask you guys before I take anything apart. If its just a simple inverter and someone on here can say yeah mine looked like that and it was the inverter, I'll replace it, but if its the 16' impossible CCFL screen that's messed up I don't want any further part of this laptop and will get paid for what Ive done letting the owner take it from there. If it is the screen I think the best move would be to order a brand new HP G60 15.6" LED main cable, new 15.6" screen bezel to fit the screen, and a 15.6" LED screen and just turn it into a 15.6" LED screen. But that will still cost $80 which is cheaper than the $130 - $150 they are asking for a replacement used 16" screen on ebay. I just thought out of all you guys maybe one of you has seen this problem (LOOK AT PHOTO I"VE ATTACHED, TWO OF THEM) and knows if its the screen or inverter.

Thanks guys!!! PS If anyone would like me to make a walk through on how to repair broken laptop screw holders on Laptop screen lids and on laptop bottom piece plastic base screw holders I can make one with all the pictures I took to show the owner how much work it was. When I am done doing these repairs they are wayyy stronger than they originally were.

So I'm interested to know if anyone recognizes the vertical line problem as inverter or screen? I have a blank screen when I power on but when hooked to the VGA into the monitor, I still have a blank laptop screen, but monitor comes on, then when I close the laptop lid, then open the lid, I get those vertical lines and the vertical lines I can see the red and black colors of the wallpaper in them like the screen wants to work. That's all the info I have on it.

 

It's definitely not the inverter - a dead inverter means no backlight.

I would suspect the screen cable or its connections at each end.

John

 

See my post: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...-g7jh-a1-full-hd-glossy-pref.html#post9503498 I replaced both the cable & panel to fix it

 

I have another G60 here that has a bad screen but a new screen connector so I guess I'll tear it apart one last time and swap the cables around and closely look at the connections on the end. I sure hope its just that because even thought this laptop came to me in pieces in a box, the client said it worked. Although when I was taking everything out of the box he had all the screws on one of the magnetic shop pans with the two big heavy duty magnets on the bottom that look like speaker magnets. Well this was what the screen was sitting on in the bottom of the box under everything else. I'm wondering if maybe those magnets might have did something to the screen. He also told me that he took it to another person to fix and that person had it for months without getting anything fixed or put back together. This tells me that maybe he broke something and didn't finish trying to put the laptop together thinking my client would never get it back together thus never finding out he broke something. I've replaced the cable to fix a blank screen problem before but I've never had a screen that looked like that with all the vertical lines.