use laptop screen on a pc??

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!

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?

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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?

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

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...

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?