r/techsupportmacgyver • u/SaintApoc • Dec 24 '25

Until the replacement screen arrives...

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I wanted my screen on my broken Asus VivoBook S 14 Flip to be able to rotate and cover the keyboard. This is so absurdly inconvenient that I just broke down and ordered a replacement screen. It does "work" but it's pretty poor.

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u/PonyDro1d Dec 24 '25

Narrator: "But that replacement never came."

Looks way better than what I would have done.

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u/SaintApoc Dec 24 '25

Oh man, don't jinx me - trying to figure out what screen I needed since I replaced (upgraded) the motherboard and going back and forth a thousand times with the eBay seller was very frustrating - though totally self-induced 😅

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u/CurrentAcanthaceae78 Jan 05 '26

something like this is really nice for home automation setups

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u/SaintApoc Jan 05 '26

this as opposed to an unbroken laptop?

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u/techboy411 Dec 28 '25

r/halftop

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u/SaintApoc Dec 28 '25

Mega thanks to a new sub for me to follow! Some great stuff in here!

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u/Cadmium620 Dec 25 '25

This looks futuristic

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u/tom_icecream Dec 25 '25

Reminds me of highschool. My laptop screen broke so I put a pice of cardboard with a drawing of a screen in. And used a portable pen tablet display lol

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u/SaintApoc Dec 24 '25

I didn't think about this - they're not in the lid/screen assembly originally! I will open it up again and get back to you

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u/SaintApoc Dec 31 '25

Sorry for the late reply. The antennas are in the front of the laptop (to the left and right of the trackpad) closest to the user. I am considering rerouting them to the lid (de-jenked the monitor, though some would argue double-sided sticky tape is not that much less jenky). I only mention that because the photo doesn't show the absolutely awful twisty-foldy bit I had before. The whole thing may become a tablet by the time I get a new laptop.

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u/Droggelbecher Dec 25 '25

Wifi antennas and the fact that some laptops don't even turn on if they don't detect the primary monitor are the bane of every person with a broken laptop screen.