Rat
Not bored. Never bored.,
Possible, yes. Worth doing, not in my (limited) experience.
Do feel free to give it a go, particularly if it is otherwise going in the bin. But I've always found them to be difficult to connect up in the first place.
Of course, I've taken far more laptops apart than I've put together, so mine my not be the best opinion.
Cheers,
Rat.
Do feel free to give it a go, particularly if it is otherwise going in the bin. But I've always found them to be difficult to connect up in the first place.
Of course, I've taken far more laptops apart than I've put together, so mine my not be the best opinion.
Cheers,
Rat.
evildave
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Well, if you can replace the CD drive with a DVD drive, and if the video card has some MPEG acceleration (anything made in the last five years generally will), you could have the computer/laptop BE the DVD player. It's just a matter of finding the same profile DVD drive, or getting an external one and gluing it to the case.
The pinouts for how they connect the display varies in a lot of different ways. Nearly as many as there are brands of display. If you can reverse-engineer the motherboard down to where the video signal is being generated (traces start where the wiring goes to the panel, and usually near the chip), then you can follow the traces back to the video chip, and potentially look up that part number to find out what pins generate what sort of signals. This will generally be DVI, which basically means the panel won't plug into anything but VGA DVI connector, which you'll have to solder up for yourself, and won't plug into anything but a VGA card with a DVI port - or this notebook.
The pinouts for how they connect the display varies in a lot of different ways. Nearly as many as there are brands of display. If you can reverse-engineer the motherboard down to where the video signal is being generated (traces start where the wiring goes to the panel, and usually near the chip), then you can follow the traces back to the video chip, and potentially look up that part number to find out what pins generate what sort of signals. This will generally be DVI, which basically means the panel won't plug into anything but VGA DVI connector, which you'll have to solder up for yourself, and won't plug into anything but a VGA card with a DVI port - or this notebook.
thrombus29
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If this is that old, you should check the resolution/refresh rate of the monitor first to make sure that it can work with the DVD player first.
ihaunter
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Many people have been looking into a similar task, that of using an old laptop screen as a PC monitor. I found this
forum. There is one fellow who said he did it and is going to sell kits, but has yet to post even one picture of it working. Mostly, it looks like it would cost about the same as a flat panel monitor to get it to work.
There were some interesting links in there, though. Someone did find a way to get the portable 5" screen for a PSOne to work with VGA. If you are interested in portable, that might work.
forum. There is one fellow who said he did it and is going to sell kits, but has yet to post even one picture of it working. Mostly, it looks like it would cost about the same as a flat panel monitor to get it to work.
There were some interesting links in there, though. Someone did find a way to get the portable 5" screen for a PSOne to work with VGA. If you are interested in portable, that might work.