this card seems to sux.... agp 1X, low memory... >:)

I keep a 1600X1200 dell 15" and still hopping to find a way to convert it to a DVI (or vga) plug for a couple of bucks.

so has anyone figured out how to connect the LCD TFT screen to your gaming console not throught the coaxial cable but through the RCA cable?

I know the card itself sukks! but if it works there may be others like it that perform better :).

Still I'll be happy spending £10 for this on ebay, rather than $200+ for a LCD controller board.

I kinda expecting this to be a waste of £10 tho!

Should be arriving on Tuesday, so I'll let you know if it works or not!

Hey so will these work?
 

These are from the laptops itself but will they work if you want to try and connect a LCD to your pc or gaming console?

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...ayphotohosting

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...ayphotohosting

Last night I tore apart my laptop LCD to replace the backlight. First thing I said to myself was "Damn this thing looks sexy when it's out of it's bulky casing". Now, it just so happens that I have an xbox-in-car project going on. I already purchased an el-cheapo 6.5" LCD package from wal-mart (was ~$200 iirc), It comes with 2x6.5" LCDs and a DVD base unit. The DVD unit can take RCA input.

Here is what I was thinking. My existing 6.5" LCDs would also need a controller to take the RCA input -- the DVD unit obviously provides this conversion. So instead of buying a seperate controller board for my 14" LCD from my laptop, I was thinking it may be possible to splice into the existing board inside the DVD unit. VGA to RCA is easy to do also.

Now I know most of you are just looking for VGA -> TFT LCD cheap, but this may be a good solution for all you computer-in-car people.

If my thoughts are correct, I could have 3 LCDs and a DVD player for about $200 (cost of DVD + 2x LCD package).

I'll post more as I look into if anyone is interested.

I just took apart my laptop to clean it out, and because I was curious. I have had it for about 3 to 4 years now, and I never had the right tools on me to do the job. I loved it. Anyhow, I am thinking of building a bare-bones desktop with a good graphics card, and whatever spare parts I can strip from my compaq presario laptop. After doing some research, like you all did, I am very surprised at the results. I was expecting it to be easier. Almost every post on other forums, all over the internet states that it is near impossible to do. Anyway, I was wondering if those controllers would work for just a regular LCD screen from a fairly new laptop. Do you all think it is worth it?

Feature connector
 

Has anyone tried the feature connector? It is a digital out, although I think it is limited in color and resolution.

please help....
 

hi all

im currently working as a contracter for asda who are getting rid of a load of old IT stock... which is always good...

what i found though i couldnt belive.. a load of kiosks....

these systems are only AMD k62 266's ,touch screen and an LCD screen (which has a 44 pin - pin header TTL connection) ,intergrated into the box... ect.. and there selling them for £85... so i bought one hoping i could modd it and use as a pc conrol system, see pics.... the problem i seem to have is that the graphics card is only a 1mb chips and technologies 65550 card and cant run video ect.. i have looked every where for a better card but couldn't find one .. my question is can i use an old 3dfx 3 card i have with the 44 pin connection ... ive read through this thread and it sounds as if i cant ADC issues...ect... is there any convertors i can look into ect..

and information would be gratfull thanks....

ps heres the pics, ive left a cup at the side as refrence to its size...

ah ha ... ok ill talk to myself
 

just to update if anyones at all interested any more...

i talked to earthlcd today ...and they said that to upgrade to lcd you need an analog controller with a custom cable designed for the lcd screen tto connect to the card.. then a pass through connecter can go to say a geforce fx card(or whatever) to give it a bit of oommph... so i can play games on it... not sure if thats just a load of old bollocks .. what do u people think.. is this info right????

cheers.

Question:
I would like to remain cheap. I don't want to purchase a new screen. I already have one I took off my old laptop. I've been reading through this and I have seen people do it with PSONE screens and screens made specificly for this, but not with an actual laptop screen. Maybe I missed something, I skimmed through alot, but could someone advise me? I have a laptop screen that has two little loops on both sides, and a 38 pin female connector. I'm assuming the 38 pin connector is for video input (duh) and the two loops are possibly power? I have an Nvidia Gforce FX 5600 Ultra graphics card with a VGA out, S-Video out, and a DVI out. What do I need to do to hook up the LCD screen so it will display a separate image such as a specified picture?

i kinda lost this project by the wayside, but it appears that if you want to use a laptop display with a pc, you need to get a pci lcd controler card. they have them at earthlcd. i cant tell you how much they cost, because i havent looked into it in a while.

if you get it workin though, let us know! and good luck!

later

I have a laptop screen pulled from an old toshiba something cdx and it has the lcd contoller it looks like on the back of the screen. the inputs are a 20 pin video input and a 2 pin power input. i want to see if anyone knows what to do before i try on my own

uh... question
 

since some of the major video card companies make laptop video chipsets, would i be wrong in my assumption that you could just pull the video converter off of the laptop motherboard? i mean, if a desktop ATI card has to convert then a laptop ATI card would as well right? and like one of the other posters here, i have pulled apart an old laptop and noticed the plugin where the ribbon cable from the LCD connects.


btw - i think this is the longest running thread i've ever seen .... EVER :)

there are FAR longer here.. but most of them don't have this much content..

OK, I'm on to this project. I think I have gathered all the necessary information and am about to comence construction. I will let you all know how it goes.

However it must be said that in order to do this convertion you NEED the Wiring / Schematic diagram or a nice Digital Oscilliscope.

I'll report back soon.

Keukpa

good luck - and hope it works out!

yeah tell us how it goes and what parts you are using

Components
 

OK, well I have collected ALL the components that I need. Including a sexy 15" DELL 1600x1200 TFT Laptop Screen.

All in all the total cost of the components was approximately £35

The only difficulty I'm having is getting the correct Data Sheet for the screen but I think I've found a source for it.

This is actually more straight forward than I first thought.

So I should have it all up and running within about 1 - 2 weeks. Once I've got it all working I'll put up a website with step-by-step instructions and post the link here.

Have fun all.

Cheers,

Keukpa

i wait eagerly for your results.

later

gg with the doubles later's.. :/

gg? yeah, i forgot i put it in my sig.

I've done it.
 

Hi all, sorry for the LONG LONG delay, but I've been in San Diego for the past 6 weeks.

Anyways,

I've managed to do what we've all been wanting to do, and it cost me under £100 (£80 to be precise) so I'm just finishing the web details and will post the URL here in a week or two.

Have fun and keep playing....

Keukpa

cool beans mate!

wow, good job keukpa! look forward to your pics and stuff!

thanks!

howdiy ppl, i want to do just wat i think it was frank wanted multimedia pc and lcd look bit better than crt especialy in the car. anyways lcd is digital so cant u use the dvi on vid card cant u just hook the lcd straight to the dvi with the right wiring config mabie oh and that expencive part the inverter or wat eva isnt that in the laptop if i bought a sh*t one just cause i saw it done with a ps1 u no the one with the built in screen and they used somthin off the board and just wired it to the vga and away she went just had to config the pixels or some sh*t cause the screen is small but yeah thats y i ask bout an old laptop working same way

woah. first off, it was me who wanted this car pc. second, punctuate dude.

ok, i think the whole dvi interface has already been discussed and deemed that you cannot just wire the lcd to the dvi interface. i'm not an electrician, or claim to know why it won't work. i just want a car pc one day.

yeah, i've seen the PSONE screen thing before, its still pretty cool though, even if it is small.

thanks for the intrest though man, and thanks for contributing to the thread!

http://www.pcclub.com/forum/arcmessa...&threadid=2611


http://www.forumplanet.com/planethar...10&tid=1467022

Alright I have decided to stop buy and see what progress has been made in this thread, and to share what I have learned.
Ok simply put it is possible but will cost you lots of money. LCD in laptop recieve their data via a DIGITAL signal, and no you cant just wire it up to a DVI port. You must either create or buy a converter board that will take an analog signal and turn it into a full on digital signal that the LCD can interpret. Regarding the claims that there are RGB leads on the LCD... so far every claim I have come across has been a phoney. The only way you can use an LCD screen from a laptop is if you can work out a way to send a digital signal to it. You can hook up LCD monitors as they already have a controller on them (hence why you use a 15 pin d-sub connector). You can just buy a controller from some website but finding one at a decent price and quality is near impossible. It would be cheaper and easier to use an LCD monitor.

All right now i know that i am a tad late to join in on the fray but i did have just one question that i hope someone could answer.

I was thinking that if you could find out what each pin does on the LCD from the laptop you could just wire it directly to an Adapter (DB-25 or DVI, probably DVI) and plug it in. Now i realize that wont work right off but hear me out. Couldnt you get a hold of the device driver code and potentially rewrite the the device to handle the different pin config. Now i know that rewriting a display driver wouldnt be a walk in the park but i have quite a bit of free time and a huge interest in keep boards and circutry and power to a minimum so ANY beam of hope in the minimalist style is good enough for me. I know it will take time to do and is impractical but if it is plausible i would like to pursue it further. If ANYONE can help i would appreciate it.

hmm
good thinking there
writting the assembly code for the drivers yourself to allow a special pin configuration

ill have to look into that

btw welcome to the forum
its never too late to jump in this thread as this is more of a cumulative knowledge database

time to work my assembly skills

I've also been trying to figure this out and just spen the last hour going through all these posts :biggrin: Here is a website i've found that i didn't see posted here...

http://a26.lambo.student.liu.se/?sec...project=vgalcd

LTM150XI

Where can I find this and not have to purchase 1000 of them? lol... I found a few places that sell them but you have to buy in bulk. They are about $180 a piece but I only want 1... okay maybe 2 or 3... but not 1000!

I am starting
 

Well, I am ganna start a project. Ill be posting Pics of the stuff i already have.

Ok
 

I got a AA11SB6C LCD screen. I am looking for a Converter board if anyone could link me to a cheap one. Thanks.

Controller?
 

Hey what's up. A while ago I took off two laptop screens from some old laptops i found and wanted to hoook them up to my desktop.

What is a controller? Would I have one in an old laptop?

Thanks

LCD Screen on side of Case
 

:dance: Ihave been working on this Mod for almost 4 months late nights tearing apart 5 Laptops to see that none of :dance: them have the same connection so what am I to do , well i tell you what my only other :dance: feasible option that i haven't even :dance: seen thought of Before is to look at it another way. if you can't add a LCD to your computer why not try and add a laptop. :dance: WAIT before you skip over THIS
:dance: I Don't Mean put a cable from PC to Laptop but I mean Why not place the whole thing on the inside of a medium to large :dance: size case and see if there is a way to connect it internaly so that you have all the connections up and running are ably to:dance: leave the ports accesible and able to share info. there must be a way to adapt one MOBO or the other to accept at least:dance: some data. i am currently working on this still and i don't think that i will be able to move on to any other mod until i finish:dance: this one way or the hammer LOL :nod: well i'll keep you posted let me know if you have any ideas.

Yahoo group please visit please post so i don't look crazy
 

I recently created a yahoo Group called Case Mods please join or post or let other people know so that we can have a group on yahoo that actuall is about case modding i went to the other case modders groups and they were all a bunch of spammers. i hate spem so i made my own.

please help me get the word out so that this can become a good place to get help or parts or help others thanks


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/casemods/join
:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

i just acquired an LCD from a dell 2650 today, and am gonna hopefully figure this out. so far as i can tell i may need to rewire the ribbon from the LCD, BUT im gonna need to convert the signal to analog. fortunately for me the graphics card was a seperate unit (dunno if thats normal or not) an i got the too. is there poosibly a PCI card that will handle the connector directly from the LCD, or possibly from the Video Card/Chip in the Laptop? heres what im workin with:

The 2650 came with 2 screens (both made by LG/Phillips), a 14.1" (LP141X8) and a 15.0" (LP150X2 or LP150X04). I'm trying to find pin assignments for those screens (they use an LVDS 1 port interface).

Here are the pin assignments for the DVI interface:
1 T.M.D.S. Data2-..............9 T.M.D.S. Data1-..................17 T.M.D.S. Data0-
2 T.M.D.S. Data2+.............10 T.M.D.S. Data1+...............18 T.M.D.S. Data0+
3 T.M.D.S. Data2/4 Shield.11 T.M.D.S. Data1/3 Shield....19 T.M.D.S. Data0/5 Shield
4 T.M.D.S. Data4-..............12 T.M.D.S. Data3-.................20 T.M.D.S. Data5-
5 T.M.D.S. Data4+.............13 T.M.D.S. Data3+...............21 T.M.D.S. Data5+
6 DDC Clock......................14 +5V Power........................22 T.M.D.S. Clock Shield
7 DDC Data.......................15 Ground(return for +5V, HSync, and VSync)23 T.M.D.S. Clock+
8 Analog Vertical Sync.......16 Hot Plug Detect................24 T.M.D.S. Clock-
C1Analog Red....................C2Analog Green...................C3Analog Blue
C4Analog Horizontal Sync.C5Analog.Ground (analog R, G, & B return) Digital Only Connector

i couldnt even find the model numbers you just posted, of course i had to go to work... but thanks! ill def look too!

i can almost say for certain that its the 14.1, the other specs were 128mb, 20gb, std. spkers, plain cd drive, floppy, and so on.