RE: Reusing an LVDS laptop screen?

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian,

A number of the Mini-ITX motherboards have built-in LVDS interfaces, see:
h=
ttp://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=3D2#p1619. Mini-ITX also available at
www.l=
initx.com.=20
They're more than =A330, but you could but together your own
"kiosk" PC pre=
tty cheaply.

HTH,

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe
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> So, my ooooold laptop died - the screen is fine, but the=20
> motherboard gradually died over the course of a couple of weeks.
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> And stripping the laptop to bits (as you do) I'm struck by=20
> what a senseless waste it would be to fling a working, very=20
> nice, 14.1" screen in the skip for lack of a way to drive it.
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> Except, all of the driver boards I can see for LVDS screens=20
> cost an absolutely ludicrous amount (read: around =A3300, which=20
> would buy an actual *laptop* of this age).=20
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> So, has anyone found a way of using old laptop screens for ha=20
> controller panels (ie, as a vga screen)?
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> Given that some sites are now selling refurbed 15" tft=20
> monitors for =A350, I'd say anything more than abour =A330=20
> renders the solution pointless, as it's then cheaper to just=20
> buy a vga tft monitor and strip the plastics instead..
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> Ian.