I recently purchased the system below off of Ebay. As far as I can tell, the cable and LCD screen are still intact, but it looks like the cable connecting the screen to the system has been ripped out. (And the case is broken of course, but with some shell augmentation, that can be livable)
I'm hoping to take it apart, put the cable back into the hopefully still-usable motherboard and have it boot up just fine.
My question is, what do you guys think the odds are the motherboard's socket for that cable is still intact? Those flaps on the board can be real finicky. If the mobo isn't usable I'll probably wind up parting out what is still usable.
Thanks in advance.
Warning: Large images in the spoiler!
Update: It got here!
After disassembling the device, I found one cable cut, one cable pinched (there is a solid white line across then entire cable, not sure if it cut the traces or not), and one cable intact.
Cameras were cut
Speakers were pinched
Screen was fine
The motherboard would not turn on, but that turned out to be from a dead battery. Putting in a charged battery and turning it on would run the system for 2 seconds or so, the screen would flash once (top half unplugged), and then turn off again. The motherboard also looks fine.
While putting it back together, I accidentally put a screw in the wrong hole and slightly damaged the ribbon for the R button. I don't think I damaged the traces, but who knows? I might have broken R.
As a result, I ordered new cameras and speakers, they should be here next week.
I'm hoping to take it apart, put the cable back into the hopefully still-usable motherboard and have it boot up just fine.
My question is, what do you guys think the odds are the motherboard's socket for that cable is still intact? Those flaps on the board can be real finicky. If the mobo isn't usable I'll probably wind up parting out what is still usable.
Thanks in advance.
Warning: Large images in the spoiler!
Update: It got here!
After disassembling the device, I found one cable cut, one cable pinched (there is a solid white line across then entire cable, not sure if it cut the traces or not), and one cable intact.
Cameras were cut
Speakers were pinched
Screen was fine
The motherboard would not turn on, but that turned out to be from a dead battery. Putting in a charged battery and turning it on would run the system for 2 seconds or so, the screen would flash once (top half unplugged), and then turn off again. The motherboard also looks fine.
While putting it back together, I accidentally put a screw in the wrong hole and slightly damaged the ribbon for the R button. I don't think I damaged the traces, but who knows? I might have broken R.
As a result, I ordered new cameras and speakers, they should be here next week.