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Gebus - Posts:8
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Anyone know how i go about this?
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by Gebus » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:20 am
I just recieved an old non working dell laptop with a good LCD still in it, i took it apart and got the LCD out now i want to know how i can connect this monitor into my normal computer and use it as a secondary display via DVI or VGA. It has some connections that went straight to the motherboard, which was dead in the laptop, any ideas?
I was thinking if i could get this to work i would cut a wohle in my case and put this in the side, tunr out pretty good insted of a boring window ^_^
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by gannon » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:09 am
Unless you can isolate the lcd circuitry in the laptop it's nearly useless.
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r3ap3r - Posts:107
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by r3ap3r » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:55 am
Not really i had a old laptop that had Win 95(pretty old) and it had a 11" lcd screen so i took it apart abit of rewiring attached the power cord to the snes Mainboard and it worked like a charm a SNES with a 11" screen and wireless 2.4Ghz Controller. It Ownz. Cheers^_^
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by timmeh87 » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:58 am
certain lcd screens go for ridiculously high prices on ebay.
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by Gebus » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:08 am
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by Rellizate » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:18 am
Technically yes it is possible, but you would need a video card with a LVDS interface (not DVI unlike what you will find in PC video cards with DFP support), that's what is used in most portables nowadays.
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by r3ap3r » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:39 pm
Gebus wrote:Well here are some pictures of the conenctions...
that first pic looks similar to wot i did see how many pins it has if its 15 and ur lucky just try wiring it up to a vga cord and power it up and there u go but thats wot i did and it works like a charm but that looks a bit newer than wot i have so it may not work but its worth a try. Cheers^_^
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by vskid » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:25 pm
Gebus wrote:Well here are some pictures of the conenctions...
Could you give us an estimate on how many wire that has? As r3ap3r said, you might be able to add a vga cable to it, but I can't see how many wires are in the ribbon.
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by Gebus » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:39 pm
Alright well i'll count the pins on the cable when i get off work. Now when you say VGA do u mena actually splice the wires? Also what about power?
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by Gebus » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:39 pm
Also thanks a lot guys for replying
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by r3ap3r » Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:40 am
well usally would would hook the screen up to a power supply the same as wot the laptop takes which is wot i did but yer. Cheers^_^
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by Gebus » Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:52 pm
r3ap3r wrote:well usally would would hook the screen up to a power supply the same as wot the laptop takes which is wot i did but yer. Cheers^_^
What i didn't fully understand this, do u mean like a case power supply??
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by r3ap3r » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:42 pm
Whats with the triple post well lets say ur laptop runs at a 9Volts right well then the screen would run at 9V aswell, do you get me.
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by marshallh » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:46 pm
No, you can't do it. Sell it on eBay for a ridiculously high price.
1. Sell LCD on eBay
2. ??????
3. Profit!