Laptop screen & video card help??????

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ap0the0sis

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I recently acquired a Dell 2650 laptop from a friend. He said it worked ok but he lost the charger for it and just gave me the laptop. 😀 I gutted the thing (for all I know I gutted a perfectly good laptop but who cares now) and pulled the screen and video card. I want to know if I can do anything with these parts, check out the pics and let me know what you think.
 
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PIC1 - Screen

Here is a pic of the screen 14.1" XGA
 

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Pic2 Ribbon cable from screen

As you can see this screen does not have those brittle flex cables. Its a cable made from individual strands of wire sandwiched between clear tape. very flexible and forgiving!
 

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damn, you ripped apart a pretty decent laptop.... I would have bought it off ya if you tried selling it.... It has a pentium4 processor, and atleast a 20gig harddrive, geforce2 video card, and so on..... damn, you could have sold it on ebay for atleast 700$
 
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i doubt you can do anything. You can use the screen itself, but you will need a very pricey controller, and using the screen with that geforce2 video card, will be very hard (if not impossible) to plug into a pc. That jack to an agp port adapter (if it exists) must cost alot.


damn.... you should have used the laptop with the screen and videocard, make a projector out of that, than get a tv tuner card for the laptop so you can watch tv and play xbox or ps2 or whatnot.
 
#12
if you think about it... if you have sold the laptop, you could have bought an sg1600 (or something like that) and all the optics too (maybe even the ballast and bulb), and have a very very nice hdtv projector.
Resolution of 1600x1024 i belive...
 
#16
Laptop hard drives naturally "click"... something about them inside makes a clicking noise.
Your best bet, if you want to salvage the parts for some $$$, is to sell them on ebay seperately. Some geek will have that laptop with a failed LCD panel and/or video card. 😀
 
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Hmm, I stand corrected then.
I know that if I could find a better video card for my Dell Precision M50 I'd sure buy it up on ebay (it's got a Quatro 700).
You could use the LCD panel for a case mod or something... maybe a local techy computer store might take it off your hands? I know people who have tried to mod computers to run in oil drums, hamster cases, fish tanks, etc. etc... and mounting an LCD panel in the side of the case seems to be a new thing with that... lol
If you're really good with soldering and want to take a risk I imagine you could make an adapter card yourself if you had a schematic and knew what you were doing. Might be fun. 😀
 
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