Just brought back W541 to working order! :)
Sorry for picture being so dark, I finished assembling it at late at night.
A little bit of a story:
I bought a W541 from an auction for roughly 325PLN (~87$). In the listing the seller said that it had some "bug" that prevented main display from working. Figured I can take a look.
Previous owner apparently attempted to fix a broken screen with a new 3K Panel but probably didn't disconnect it from power and had blown the F11 fuse that was . Brough to a repair guy who replaced the fuse for 100PLN (27$). In the action the seller said that it had some "bug" that prevent main display from working. Figured I can take a look
There apparently was another hurdle. The screen panel it came with (defenitely not the original one it had) was also broken. Yraces were exposed on the bottom-left corner. Had to replace it myselft with a new FHD panel and cable - 235PLN (~63$). 3K panels were too expensive and I wanted this to work. Thankfully that I can repalce myself.
Side note: There was A LOT of hot glue on the inside holding parts of together. Not sure who did that but I hate you.
Summary: a lot of screen related stuff was broken but I manged to repair it well enough 👍
Overall cost: 660PLN (~177$)
Specs:
CPU - i7-4810MQ
GPU1 - Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU2 - NVIDIA Quadro K2100M
RAM - 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3L-1600MHz
Memory - 512GB SATA SSD