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This machine was given to me by someone who was scrapping the ones they cannot fix themselves from someone who retired it due to old age and this issue. It’s average and a few years old with some of the RAM stripped (as well as the SSD), so it’s gonna need some help. Normally this person tries but this machine was too needy for them to fix so I got it because they know I can deal with needy systems. I can kind of see why having an 8250U. This isn’t a bad chip, but it’s also on the lower end even being 8th gen 4C/8T. I was told it may have a unknown BIOS password but it’s clean :-). I was just going to use it for parts otherwise but knowing the BIOS is clear makes it potentially fixable. I’m just going to replace the keyboard due to the fact several keys are shiny, one of the domes are missing and the scissor hinges are missing. Is this look like something I can reseat the cable on, or am I going to need a new LCD panel/used assembly?

@oldturkey03 it won’t work :(. And it’s IVO so it has that cursed SV panel. I’m dumping the assembly and going to a normal IPS panel.

Keyboard is swapped out. Different part numbers but thankfully on these it doesn’t matter since the PRIV keyboard can be interchanged on SV delete machines and factory non-SV.

@nick looks like a bad screen. Very unlikely to be a bad cable.

This is how I ended up repairing this laptop — i bought a used non SureView screen assembly. I have nothing against SureView being an option, but the viewing angle reduction compared to a normal IPS screen and my heightened sensitivity to flicker (which is an unfixable issue with the feature) is why I deleted it. If you’re not sensitive to it go for trying to keep it intact, if you can find the panel at a reasonable price (it happens as I’ve seen it but still — $115 for a 1080p panel? You gotta be kidding me to pay that much but thanks to the IVO monopoly you have no choice. I can buy 2-3 NORMAL screens for the same money as raw panels). For me the flicker is a huge deal breaker to keeping it when the panel fails. The problem is it uses a nonstandard control scheme (read: not PWM), so it flickers bad enough I need to reduce the brightness to 80% or less on “intact” machines. Doesn’t totally nerf the already reduced angle screen but it makes it worse. If HP told me that I need to pay $250 for the 4K panel from the factory to not have it at all, they got me.