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Splice laptop connector to VGA?
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Overclocker in Training
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Splice laptop connector to VGA?
Hi, I guess I should explain my idea before I ask my question. I have an old laptop lcd just laying around and it has a ribbon connector that plugged into the mother board of an old laptop I got rid of.
__________________I have an old case laying around and what I want to do is fit the lcd into the side pannel and have an all in one desktop computer type of thing. I also have an old vga cable laying around. I was wondering if anyone has any idea how I can splice the laptops ribbon cable into the vga cable and get a picture. I'll have pics of the wires in an hour or so....
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I think you need some kind of LCD controller to use a laptop screen.
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Ok here it is. The LCD ribbon cable has a lot of small wires. Can anyone tell me what that box does? I'm guessing it is for the back lights so I might have to splice that into a molex connector...
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heres some links i found. All in all though i don't think it would be worth the effort in the end.
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic16824.html http://www.motionnet.com/cgi-bin/sea...?a=cat&no=2917 http://www.techwarelabs.com/communit...ead.php?t=1306 http://excel-display.com/ex104dvbal.html
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Overclocker in Training
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That sucks. I was hoping to be able to just splice it in and ready to go. Thanks.
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Wannabe Audiophile
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If you really want to play around with LCDs, check out the PSone screen. Lots of mods for that.
http://www.gearlive.com/index.php/ne...uter_05110831/ http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2004/07/07/psone_lcd/1 http://www.theboxheads.net/modules.p...iewtopic&t=333
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Also there's another way, Buy a stand alone desktop LCD use or cheap and take it apart.
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You cannot directly connect a laptop LCD panel to a desktop graphics card; the panel needs a controller. It is possible to buy VGA or DVI to LVDS (LCD panel's interface) controllers, but the price is more expensive than a new LCD monitor. From a cost standpoint, you'd be best off to simply buy an LCD monitor and strip the guts out of it and mod that into your case.
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Overclocker in Training
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