>I have a cracked monitor on my DELL Inspirion 5000 laptop. DELL wants $938 to repair it.
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>What have other people done to have a monitor repaired with minimal cost?
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>Thanks!

Do you have the equivalent of Micro Computer Mart over there? www.microcomputermart.co.uk
There's usually someone selling a screen for a dead laptop you may get lucky.. look in the classifieds section

I've just had a look and found somone selling laptop components
matt747uk@yahoo.co.uk
Note I have not purchased anthing off this person so can not reccommend them.

HTH