I'm looking for some advice, or maybe just some inspiration... I've got a Lenovo Ideapad 500-15iSK that I bought new about six years ago, if it was a car you'd say it has a good engine but the bodywork is shot. Everything else works well, I've used it a lot and only ever had to replace the battery.
The plastic along the left hand edge of the laptop has been slowly breaking away, there are many bits missing but this doesn't overly bother me.
The real problem is that the left hand side of the hinge is only held in by one screw, so when I open the laptop or tilt the screen the case flexes in that corner and sometimes the screen flickers until I reposition it. I'm unable to secure the hinge as the plastic/brass assembly that the other screw goes into has snapped off and re-securing the brass ferule with epoxy does not last. This particular problem is worsened because the bottom of the case is only secured front and centre by four screws, the assemblies for the other case screws have also disintegrated.
For now I've cross-bound the corner of the laptop with gaffer tape which has taken the worst of the flex away and stops the screen from flickering, it's not ideal but it'll do for now!
I've tried to find a replacement case so that I can do a transplant but no joy and there don't seem to be any spares or repairs laptops out there either.
Bottom line, I like this laptop but accept that nothing lasts forever, so I'm just wondering if there are any other laptop models that use the same chassis as this that I could utilise or should I start thinking about a replacement (once I've got tired of replacing the gaffer tape for the nth time)?
Thanks for reading!
Spec and photo's of damage -
The plastic along the left hand edge of the laptop has been slowly breaking away, there are many bits missing but this doesn't overly bother me.
The real problem is that the left hand side of the hinge is only held in by one screw, so when I open the laptop or tilt the screen the case flexes in that corner and sometimes the screen flickers until I reposition it. I'm unable to secure the hinge as the plastic/brass assembly that the other screw goes into has snapped off and re-securing the brass ferule with epoxy does not last. This particular problem is worsened because the bottom of the case is only secured front and centre by four screws, the assemblies for the other case screws have also disintegrated.
For now I've cross-bound the corner of the laptop with gaffer tape which has taken the worst of the flex away and stops the screen from flickering, it's not ideal but it'll do for now!
I've tried to find a replacement case so that I can do a transplant but no joy and there don't seem to be any spares or repairs laptops out there either.
Bottom line, I like this laptop but accept that nothing lasts forever, so I'm just wondering if there are any other laptop models that use the same chassis as this that I could utilise or should I start thinking about a replacement (once I've got tired of replacing the gaffer tape for the nth time)?
Thanks for reading!
Spec and photo's of damage -
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 80NT v: Lenovo ideapad 500-15ISK
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo ideapad 500-15ISK
serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: Lenovo ideapad 5 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <filter>
UEFI: LENOVO v: CFCN21WW(V1.03) date: 08/10/2015
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 29.1 Wh condition: 33.8/31.7 Wh (107%) volts: 15.6/14.4
model: LENOVO PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Discharging
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M185
serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-6200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake rev: 3 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 19200
Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 400/2800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 500 2: 500
3: 500 4: 500
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:1916
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: amdgpu,ati,modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d70
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-100-generic
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 Plus Bluetooth driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 8086:3166
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 8.45 GiB (0.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD
size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
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