Hello FOAK, Since it's silly season I'll ask this: This is probably more of an electrical engineering question tbh. I have a laptop in bits, the screen is connected to the motherboard by a chunky bundle of cables. It's a new to me laptop, so I don't know the history. It was delivered with a known "fucked screen" with crazy moving horizontal lines and skewed colours. It worked 100% correctly at a narrow range of screen bendings, none useful to a human. I have ripped it to bits and wiggled wires, reseated cables and managed to hoover one of the keys off (left shift). It now works flawlessly at all angles of screen wiggle. UNLESS I put the sodding thing back together in which case it instantly arses up. "Broken wire touching a bit" says I. I have industriously stripped it all back and it's on my desk running as I type (not on it) It has bundles of (3?) wires running back to the connector inside individual metallic sleeves (electrical shielding I assume) and a couple running on their own. there was a sheath of the same metallic binding around the whole keeping it all together. At the point at which the wires exit their individual bundles to join the connector they have a gap in the shielding, ALL of them have it, and I find it hard to believe that they have ALL failed in the same way with a fracture in the plastic sheath and not all shorted and started a fire. Anyone able to explain to me why the odd groupings of wires, the apparent oddness in sleeving and any suggestions on mending it, I want to drive funky light sequences from it for my band and the screen is an important bit. I don't own an angle grinder. ta.
