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Asus hinges broken, anyone else?

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#1 ·
I have had my Asus Laptop since February 2007.

The screen left hinges have completely cracked, and I dare not close it anymore because it may cause more damage.

It started as a small crack near the left hinge. I was still able to close it, but today, a huge chunk came off the back left hinge.

Anyone else experienced this happening?

I still have 1 more year warranty with Asus, so I hope they can fix it quickly as I cannot live without it for too long.
 
#2 ·
just use duct tape and forget about it. I have read about hinge problems by many others and so far I have been lucky with all of my laptops.

Hopefully asus will fix it unless they declare it misuse and not covered under their warranty. I have seen other companies do that to keep paying for broken hinges.
 
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Well that strategy, if they tried that, would not work on me.

It is due to manufacturing fault and must be covered under warranty.

But that is not the topic... and it's a waste of time use debating something as you do not work for Asus.

I am asking if others have had same problems.

Anyone else?
 
#8 ·
Thought it was me and that I had bashed it or something. Over the last few weeks bits have been breaking out. It is now just hanging off. The hinge seeems to be frozen and levering itself up thereby destroying back of casing. I rang Asus, evidently they are going to have it picked up, fixed and returned in a week. They must know about it there was no argument. Let's see how efficient their repair dept is.
 
#10 ·
I have exactely the same problem as truthseeker, I bought my asus laptop in December 2008, model X56T.

When I was closing my laptop, suddenly the hinge broke off. It started cracking and as I didn't know what was going on, I continued closing it and broke it off. The hinge got completely stuck, just like that. Five minutes before I could still open and close it perfectly. Now the screen is only connected with one hinge.

Looks like a production mistake to me.

I'm going to let it repair and will refer to this forum.

Greetz
 
#11 ·
I had a hinge go on a hp nc4010, the metal piece just snapped in two, bad design. Way out of warranty so we ordered a replacement hinge and HP sent a bag of 50 of them, I thought "***? How many do you think I need for one laptop?!", turned out to be a good thing as the other hinge broke a month later! But if anyone needs a hinge for this model, just gimme a call, I've got loads of them.
 
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