aspire v5-571 replacement screen cable

welsh375

Good evening everyone,

 

Going back a few months ago I was donated an Acer V5-571 ms2361 laptop that was compleatly dead.  I was told the motherboard was believed to be fried and after searching for spare motherboards, purchased a brand new Husk 11309-4m, figured if the original motherboard was toast might as well fit one with more grunt than the original.  In my haste to see it working, I fudged the original screen cable which resulted in the orignal cable melting and needing yet another replacement cable.

 

A few weeks later, the second replacement board turned up (same husk board of the previous one) and after diagnosing a faulty ram stick the machine booted up but only via external monitor.  Trying to find a compatible replacement led cable has been a nightmare though. So far have purchased about 7 different screen cables with 5 of them provides the monitor with power but not the needed data connection.

 

So far all of the replacements have been purchased from ebay, I have noticed others available on other wesbites including acer spares but they seem rarely to post the cable serial number which makes it harder to say the least.  I did manage to salvidge the orignal cable id sticker before binning it which is 50.4vm06.011 (VA51) REV b:01 however, since I folded the cable into the chassis resulting in the cable melting I am not sure if this cable would be compatible with both the original petra motherboard as well as the replacement?

May seem easier to simply bin the laptop and invest into a new one which would be the logical choice but getting the machine this close back into working order and the fact its a lot more modern than what I am currently using with the added advantage being half the size and about 30% lighter too.

I would appreciate any guidance or help that anyone could provide, fixing laptops is still something very new and different to me.

philetus

The Acer part number is 50.M2DN1.005

Google that and you will find many of them, expensive and unexpensive.