long time mac user, first time poster.
i have a first-generation unibody macbook (aluminum 2ghz 13.3").
somehow the glass screen got cracked last year (damn dog...)
i found a new glass screen (glass only, not the whole lid) on ebay. nowhere had instructions on how to replace the thing, and ifixit had limited info on getting it apart that far. long story short, i took the lid off to replace the glass screen. turns out, i just needed to heat-gun the border of the glass and peel it off, stick on the new one. live and learn, i guess.
long story short... i broke something. wifi no longer works, bluetooth doesn't work, and the reed switch is completely hosed (if i close the lid, it goes to sleep, but then wakes back up right away. as long as the lid closed, it just cycles back and forth between sleep and awake). if i turn the macbook off, it magically turns itself back on (with the screen opened or closed).
the good news is that my screen is no longer cracked.
it's definitely usable (been this way for about a year now), but i would like to be able to close the screen and bring the laptop different places. having wifi again would be super cool.
do i have any options here? there's no apple store near me (closest is over 200 miles away). if i went to visit my parents for christmas and hit up a Mac Genius at an apple store, would they laugh me out of the store and throw my macbook at me?
i've taken it apart a few times since, and all the connectors seem cool, and i don't see any glaring issues. isight camera still works.
any ideas?
i have a first-generation unibody macbook (aluminum 2ghz 13.3").
somehow the glass screen got cracked last year (damn dog...)
i found a new glass screen (glass only, not the whole lid) on ebay. nowhere had instructions on how to replace the thing, and ifixit had limited info on getting it apart that far. long story short, i took the lid off to replace the glass screen. turns out, i just needed to heat-gun the border of the glass and peel it off, stick on the new one. live and learn, i guess.
long story short... i broke something. wifi no longer works, bluetooth doesn't work, and the reed switch is completely hosed (if i close the lid, it goes to sleep, but then wakes back up right away. as long as the lid closed, it just cycles back and forth between sleep and awake). if i turn the macbook off, it magically turns itself back on (with the screen opened or closed).
the good news is that my screen is no longer cracked.
it's definitely usable (been this way for about a year now), but i would like to be able to close the screen and bring the laptop different places. having wifi again would be super cool.
do i have any options here? there's no apple store near me (closest is over 200 miles away). if i went to visit my parents for christmas and hit up a Mac Genius at an apple store, would they laugh me out of the store and throw my macbook at me?
i've taken it apart a few times since, and all the connectors seem cool, and i don't see any glaring issues. isight camera still works.
any ideas?
