Recycling old laptop LCD's?

RWBRWB Icrontian
edited February 2006 in Hardware
Is it possible to take the LCD off a laptop and convert it to a regular LCD you can use for a PC?

Comments

  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    Sure there is a way.... no clue how, but I sure there is a way!!! :D
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited February 2006
    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.
  • NightwolfNightwolf Afghanistan Member
    edited February 2006
    I heard lepricons have those magical powers.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2006
    It can be done. :cool:
  • jradminjradmin North Kackalaki
    edited February 2006
    and that looks like way more trouble then its worth.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2006
    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...
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