Broken hinge?

[JohnK]

I managed to acquire a Toshiba Tecra 8100 for free. The specs are as follows:
500MHz Pentium III
24(?)x CD-ROm
192MB PC100 RAM
20GB hard drive
8MB S3 SavageMX
14.1" XGA TFT LCD
Windows XP Home Edition (SP2)

Now i have a few problems:
1. (the biggest one) The screen is very wobbly, and won't stay open past a certian angle. There is at least 2" of play in the hinges. I'm assuming one of them is broken. How hard would replacing the hinges be on this particular computer, and could I do it myself?

2. (a smaller, more trivial problem) When I wake the computer up from standby, sometimes the LCD doesn't come back on. I can usually fix this by pressing Fn+F5, which switches between the external monitor (which doesn't exist) and the LCD, and it comes back on.

3. Very rarely the screen will go completely blank. I can remedy this by pressing the little switch that puts it in standby when the screen is closed.

Thanks!

-John

btw this is a pretty nice computer for free! :D

[patio]

Have you visited the manufacturer's website yet ? ?

patio.  8-)

[JohnK]

yes but maybe i could look harder lol... the most important question i have is about the hinges, which the website (to my knowledge) has nothing about. I'll check harder though.

[JohnK]

hmmm this helps with one of my problems http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlView.jsp?soid=108217&moid=1073769806&BV_SessionID=@@@@2045086518.1161104517@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfaddjdgkffjjcgfkceghdgngdgnn.0&ct=SB
but doens't really tell me how to stop it from happening again...

[street1 (RIP)]

Scroll down the page to the 8100

http://www.asklaptopfreak.com/laptop-notebook-help/category/loose-display/

[JohnK]

I read that already, but thanks! Last night I was able to determine that it's the right hinge that's at fault. I closed the display (and turned off the computer obviously) and shook the computer and I can hear something making a "clink" noise where the right hinge is. I don't hear anything moving freely around, but i can hear something is loose. Thanks for the replies!

-John