Looking at my replacement ribbon from eBay I noticed it had what looks like hot glue over the ribbon. Is this fix a thing? Gonna send the other to one of our fixers like hp sometime but never seen or heard of this method. Wouldn’t the glue oxidise or cause a problem?
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That glue is there purely to keep the cable in place and not having it detaching from the display board completely. Normally there is some glue to keep it in place, but that white blob usually crumbles up and breaks.
This doesn’t really help with the glitches ultimately.
I normally add a bit of scotch tape to solve this problem.
Now looking at it from my PC, I see that the cable is soldered as well. I don’t think the glue will cause any oxidizing on the cable, especially if the cable is still coated by plastic at that point of the cable as it seems.
Do you see any glitches? If not, I wouldn’t worry about them ever glitching. Could you show us a better picture of the soldering job?
I can tell because of the blobs of tin underneath the cable. The blobs are fine, they just gave away that someone has been soldering on them, but no clue if it has been successful or not judging from this pic. I attached a zoomed in pic of the part I am talking about.
