use laptop screen on a pc??

cuz how u answer questions :'(

i c...

guess i'll try to fix that.

apologies if anyoe has been offended.

hehe


btw how mcuh does the whole laptop project cost in total?

dunno. I have not figured that out yet. I don't think I ever will figure it out. need this, need that, keep this bill, loose that one. i'm figuring somewhere around 200-300$ US

shit u coulda just bought a whole lcd wit that price

true but an lcd will not play music in my room... also, I got the hookups for pretty much any HP product... so I see an HP lcd in my pc at the end of the summer ;D

You guys read my mind exactly on this forum, i'd love to have one of those cheap lcd's suspended on an adjustable arm off my main monitor. Prob is, i haven't found much evidence of anyone having actually done this. I found this site [url][/http://www.laptopsagain.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/Toshiba_Screens.html]
which offers toshiba screens, "FL inverters" (whatever those are) and cabling harness. The harness looks promising as it is what (i assume) connects the video card, to the FL inverter, to the lcd screen. It would seem to me that whatever plugs into the video card could probably be modded to fit into a dvi adapter.

cletus, none of the parts you see on that site are the ones really needed. what's really needed and hard to find is an lcd controller.

Heres the pinouts for the NEC TFT if anyone needs them...

Pin No. Symbol Function
1 GND Ground
2 DCLK Dot clock
3 GND Ground
4 Hsync Horizontal sync
5 Vsync Vertical sync
6 GND Ground
7 GND Ground
8 GND Ground
9 R0 Red data (LSB)
10 R1 Red data
11 R2 Red data
12 GND Ground
13 R3 Red data
14 R4 Red data
15 R5 Red data (MSB)
16 GND Ground
17 GND Ground
18 GND Ground
19 G0 Green data (LSB)
20 G1 Green data
21 G2 Green data
22 GND Ground
23 G3 Green data
24 G4 Green data
25 G5 Green data (MSB)
26 GND Ground
27 GND Ground
28 GND Ground
29 B0 Blue data (LSB)
30 B1 Blue data
31 B2 Blue data
32 GND Ground
33 B3 Blue data
34 B4 Blue data
35 B5 Blue data (MSB)
36 GND Ground
37 DE Data / Display enable
38 Vcc 3.3 v
39 Vcc 3.3 v
40 Vcc 3.3 v
Theres one more pin, which is 41: MODE Timing mode select, which is listed as H=Fixed mode, or L /open (assume it means not connected) = DE mode


And heres the I-Opener LCD pinouts

I-opener CN2


Pin No. Symbol Function
1 G4 Green Data
2 G5 Green Data (MSB)
3 R0 Red data (LSB)
4 R1 Red data
5 Vss/Ground Ground
6 R2 Red data
7 R3 Red data
8 R4 Red data
9 R5 Red data (MSB)
10 Vss/Ground Ground
11 B2 Blue data
12 B3 Blue data
13 B4 Blue data
14 B5 Blue data (MSB)
15 Vss/GND Ground
16 G0 Green data (LSB)
17 G1 Green data
18 G2 Green data
19 G3 Green data
20 Vss/GND Ground
21 Notch Not connected
22 LP/Hsync Horizontal sync.
23 YD/Vsync Vertical sync.
24 XCLK Dot clock?
25 Vss/GND Ground
26 VCON Contrast
27 DISP/ENVEE Enable VEE? Display enable?
28 Vdd/3.3v 3.3v
29 Vdd/3.3v 3.3v
30 Vdd/3.3v 3.3v

Okay assuming, (there I go again...making an ass outta myself) the pinouts are correct, I get this:

TFT pin LCD cable Pin Description
24 1 G4 Green data
25 2 G5 Green data (MSB)
9 3 R0 Red data (LSB)
10 4 R1 Red data
7 5 GND
11 6 R2 Red data
13 7 R3 Red data
14 8 R4 Red data
15 9 R5 Red data (MSB)
27 10 GND
31 11 B2 Blue data
33 12 B3 Blue data
34 13 B4 Blue data
35 14 B5 Blue data (MSB)
17 15 GND
19 16 G0 Green data (LSB)
20 17 GND
21 18 G2 Green data
23 19 G3 Green data
3 20 GND
N/C 21 Not connected
4 22 Hsync
5 23 Vsync
2 24 XCLK / Dot clock
1 25 GND
VCON 26 Contrast?
37 27 DE / Disp / Envee
38 28 3.3v
39 29 3.3v
40 30 3.3v

where the hell did you get that????

i've been looking for that for so long!