HELP HELP My Lap Top Blew Up

[cindi]

My lap top screen is ruined thanks to small child hands. I cannot afford to get it fixed right now.

Does anyone know of any way I can transfer the programs and files from laptop to my dinosaur computer. My whole life....business, email transfer, website, hundreds of documents of content I have been storing and writing, and every bill I pay monthly. I am so doomed.
Is there any way of hooking my laptop up to my other computer so I can use the monitor to at least get all my passwords?

Cindi

PS: I cannot see my screen to click on anything

[Roy]

Clindy

The easy way would be for you to take the laptop to Best Buy or Circuit City and get them to copy your C drive to a Disk format that your old Desk top can read. Then you can just copy the file over that you woul need to the Desk Top. This is normally less then $100.00 cost. Troy may know a cheaper way.

cindioverfield said:

My lap top screen is ruined thanks to small child hands. I cannot afford to get it fixed right now.

Does anyone know of any way I can transfer the programs and files from laptop to my dinosaur computer. My whole life....business, email transfer, website, hundreds of documents of content I have been storing and writing, and every bill I pay monthly. I am so doomed.
Is there any way of hooking my laptop up to my other computer so I can use the monitor to at least get all my passwords?

Cindi

PS: I cannot see my screen to click on anything

Roy

[cindi]

Roy,

By some miracle I got my desktop back up but it is a mess. There is a strange file on it and every time I try to do something it tells me there is a security risk so I am running Norton now. I think I have a virus.

Thanks for your suggestion. If I can't fix it then I may have to take it in and have a disk made.

I'll keep you posted.

Cindi

[mcomo]

cindioverfield said:

My lap top screen is ruined thanks to small child hands. I cannot afford to get it fixed right now.

Does anyone know of any way I can transfer the programs and files from laptop to my dinosaur computer. My whole life....business, email transfer, website, hundreds of documents of content I have been storing and writing, and every bill I pay monthly. I am so doomed.
Is there any way of hooking my laptop up to my other computer so I can use the monitor to at least get all my passwords?

Cindi

PS: I cannot see my screen to click on anything

Cindi,
You should be able to plug another screen (monitor) into the back and display it on the external screen. I'm not sure if you have access to another one or not.

Good luck. I'm sure it has to be really stressful.

Mike C

[troyzone]

Hi Cindi,

I was just going to make the same suggestion that Mike did...virtually any laptop I've ever seen has an external monitor port so that you can plug a regular computer monitor into it.

Usually you hold down a function (Fn) key on the laptop's keyboard and press a second key with it in order to switch between having the internal LCD screen on, the external monitor on, or both. The second key to press to switch screens usually has two rectangles on it resembling screens...it could be anywhere on the keyboard but it's typically one of the function keys up top (like F3, F4, F10...).

I actually have an adapter that allows me to take the small 2.5" hard drive out of my laptop and plug it into my desktop computer's regular 3.5" IDE internal hard drive connector...getting one of those from a computer parts supplier is an option as well, but of course it requires you to take your computers apart (or they may have such an adapter and could copy the info over from your laptop hard drive to a desktop drive for you).

If your computers are networked then you could access your laptop's files from your desktop PC. You may not have your computers set up to do this though.

In any case, the quickest and easiest solution is to just plug an external monitor into your laptop and do the Fn key combination to switch to using that instead, if your laptop supports this capability (I've yet to see one that doesn't).

Troy

[cindi]

Thanks Troy and everyone else for your help. I have figured out it is in the monitor part of the laptop. If I open and jiggle it works. I may be able to get it fixed. Thank goodness.

In the mean time I am going to network my desktop and my laptop and I went into all my accounts and cut and pasted the links and passwords to all my important stuff and sent myself an email on the desk top computer. I am printing them out so that I don't have this problem again.

I have to say that RoboForm is a great program, but when you have over 75 passwords saved there and something goes wrong and you can't access it, there is big trouble!

Anyway, thanks again everyone. You helped ease my stress.

Cindi

[troyzone]

Hi Cindi,

From your initial post I had assumed your LCD screen was cracked or otherwise broken, but from your last post it sounds to me more likely that the flex cable is going bad that connects your LCD screen to the main part of your laptop, so the flex cable will likely need to be replaced at some point.

Anything that flips or swivels such as laptop screens, flip style cell phones, and some car stereos that have a motorized face that flips up and down, has a flexible ribbon cable or flexible circuit board that connects the two parts.

Because it goes through the hinge and gets bent all the time, it eventually develops a crack through some of the conductors, severing one or more connections, and it will appear to cut in and out intermittently as you open/close the hinge. It will gradually get worse, as the more it is bent the more it will crack, so you'd best get your data backed up and/or hook up an external monitor as soon as possible in case your screen goes out and you can't get it back at all.

I know I've said this before on more than one occasion, but it is essential for all of us in this business to make regular backups of our data in case of computer problems. Some backup recommendations can be found in an old thread at the following link:

erichw33.proboards53.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=1148872373

Regarding the many usernames, passwords, and links we have for various programs, I actually keep mine in an Excel spreadsheet for quick and easy reference. I just have columns consisting of the program name, username, password, affiliate link, and stats login link, along with a column containing the email address that I am signed up to that particular program with since I have a few different email addresses on the go.

I just have each program listed on a separate row with its pertinent information under each column heading. I find it helpful when I want to look up an account quickly to have everything in one place.

Troy

[cindi]

Troy,

I believe you are correct about the flip part of my laptop. I don't close it now, I just push the button manually to shut it down.

I remember Chris Stirling saying in another post that he kept his data the same way (in Excel). I had been meaning to do the same thing only I have not had time. Well, I am going to make the time

Thanks so much for your help
Cindi