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RWB
16 Feb 2006, 7:07pm
Is it possible to take the LCD off a laptop and convert it to a regular LCD you can use for a PC?
QCH
16 Feb 2006, 7:19pm
Sure there is a way.... no clue how, but I sure there is a way!!! :D
GrayFox
16 Feb 2006, 7:22pm
In short... no


In long, lcds on notebooks will only work with the videocard for that notebook, If your an extreemly talented electrical enginer you could use magic to turn that onboard videocard into a pci or agp card then run a cable to the lcd panel.
Nightwolf
16 Feb 2006, 8:41pm
I heard lepricons have those magical powers.
profdlp
17 Feb 2006, 1:39am
It can be done. (http://www.geocities.com/p9019/lcdpanel) :cool:
jradmin
17 Feb 2006, 7:48pm
and that looks like way more trouble then its worth.
profdlp
17 Feb 2006, 8:58pm
To me, it would depend on the cost of the controller card. If an hour or two of soldering would allow me to turn a dead laptop into a 15" $180 LCD screen I would not consider it a hassle.

Now if the controller card were to cost $125...