LAPTOP FORUM

Im not going to commit suicide over this as its a machine where I
work (home owners, I feel your pain), but does the entire Advent series
have some sort of design flaw at the screen hinges? I work in a lab and
the Advent 7060 is connected to an analyser by USB. The screen has
mostly, but not totally, blacked out, so someone has connected it up to
an old CRT monitor.
Now I know this is probably a blown backlight, but closer inspection of
the hinges, particularly the left one, shows that use has eaten away at
the plastic casing of the LCD. There are shards of plastic falling off
and a large crack too. From Googling around Ive found this isnt the
only machine to have suffered such a fate.
Basically Im wondering if it can be fixed reasonably easily and
reasonably cheaply. I might get to keep the thing if I replace it with
an old banger laptop with a working LCD....
Thanks everybody!