Curiosity about Laptop Screens

[cdrudy]

Question: Any thoughts on how to reuse an old laptop screen? I just picked up a Mitsubishi AA12SB6C-ADFD TFT screen from a Gateway 2200 solo and I was wondering if there is anyway to make it work with a desktop computer... Wouldn't the be the neatest thing if I could get it to work somehow and mount a flat screen somewhere (let my imagination run wild) (Ok,ok so I'm a little weird.)

For that matter it really doesn’t have to be the gateway. I have access to many different screen brands. (I work in a computer repair shop.)

Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, insults (well, I could do without those)?

 

[fugigoose]

Why would you want to use a LCD screen? LCD's suck for all purposes other than to impress your friends. They are awful for gaming and grafix (although they tell you otherwise). Anyway, I dont think theres an easy way to make a laptop screen work with a desktop... Is that what you're trying to do?

 

[cdrudy]

Yeah you hit it right on the nose. I am aware of the suckage factor, and I wouldn't be using it for my primary display (my 21" veiwsonic works just fine for that.) It is indeed just in the cool, impress friends, have fun trying different things with used parts, venue. And personally I think they are good for text and low end graphics applications... well anyway, I just wanted to know if anyone had any thoughts on how it could be done, easily or hard...

 

[garwain]

If you can find the pin layout for the laptop monitor and for a regular monitor you should be able to splice a pc monitor cable with the connection cable for the monitor.

I've never tried this, but the only problem I can see is possibly the power for the laptop monitor. Possibly the power coming from the vid card on the PC would be enough but I wouldn't place money on that... If you have all the specs on the laptop monitor you should be able to build an AC adaptor for it as well.

If you have no knowledge of electronics this will be a lot harder...

 

[FatesWebb]

laptop lcds have other required parts, the lcd may have a inverterboard inside the base of the laptop althought usualy it is inside the top cover not the base... also some may require a specific video card. but it you get lucky you never know you might could pull it off somehow... would be coool I thinks

 

[cdrudy]

I think so too...
another question...
What does an inverter board do? Does it literally just invert the pin order, or does it do something more? I ask because there is a jack on the bottom of the screen in which the pins are recessed and there is a small board that comes off the bottom of this that has a plug for this recessed connecter and then goes to a rather normal pin connector. Does that make sense? I hope so...

In a nut shell , what is an inverter, is this board an inverter, might I have gotten lucky, and am I wasting more of people's time asking more questions

 

[FatesWebb]

sounds like the inverter board i bet... the inverter board adds the back light required to see the picture...