Laptop doesn't work! Any ideas?

[punosion]

Last night, I took apart an IBM laptop to figure out why the metal boot on one of the hinges wasn't staying firmly in-place in its slide holder. I took quite a bit of it apart, put it back together, and now it doesn't seem to POST and the LCD panel doesn't come on.

I took off the keyboard and the metal bracket below the keyboard off so I could possibly take off the top bezel. Then I took off the front LCD panel bezel and unscrewed it from the metal hinges. BTW, I grounded myself before doing this, but wasn't grounded the entire time...didn't move much anyway, as I was sitting on the floor...

I put a bit of stress on the ribbon cable going to the LCD panel, so I'm hoping I just jiggled one loose. If it didn't work again, that would be bad. I was just wondering about the possibility that I fried something in the laptop itself?

EDIT: I hope this is in the right place!

 

[dtadpole]

Thats probably it the ribbon cable from the base to the lcd is not tight in one of its holders. I think this is a general ? So its in the right place.
By the way WELCOME TO THE FORUM!!

 

[skab]

Yea, when I took my thinkpad apart I found that the ribbon to the LCD is stuck in and then kibnda pushed in till you feel it connect, almost felt like friction fit though I doubt that it was. Kinda tricky getting it to stay in tight.

 

[punosion]

<sigh> Thanks for the help. I'll check it out a bit more and report back. I sure hope it's just the ribbon cable...

BTW, thanks for the welcome dtadpole! Already got one from my first (lame) watercooling post, but I appreciate the friendliness around here!