If you re like me and haven t the slightest idea where it is carefully flip the laptop over and unscrew one cover at a time until you find it they are generally about 4 inches wide by 3 inches.
Dropped laptop on carpet.
It sounds like you may have loosened up the lvds video cable that connects the motherboard to the display panel when it was dropped.
With the computer on slowly open the lid to it s fullest open position and back to nearly closed before the sensor shuts the screen off.
Its all a matter of how hard they are dropped and onto what.
How do i know for sure that my laptop is fine.
If it fell a short way onto the carpet i wouldn t freak too much.
A diy repair on a basic laptop screen is simpler than you think but if you have a specialized laptop such as an ultrabook a two in one or a macbook it s better to see an expert.
The laptop so far as i can tell has suffered no damage.
When your mac laptop slips out of your hands or your mac desktop falls off your desk as you re shuffling things around here s what to do once the feeling of dread dissipates.
Out of all the computing hassles you can face nothing quite compares to dropping your laptop on a hard floor.
Just today i watched people knock the same laptop from a desk to the thin carpet ground twice from a distance of nearly 3 feet.
If your dropped computer is a laptop check the display.
Because typically that s the end of your laptop.
If it s been damaged or cracked you ll notice right away as it will display strange lines or figures instead of your preboot sequence.
I turned it back on and everything seemed fine.
Yeah i drop a lot of things and these gadgets still work.