How to remove the lcd moniter from a labtop?

Question

I have a labtop with a broken mb, but the moniter part works just fine. Is there some way to remove the moniter from the rest of the computer and use it for other applications?

Answer 1

Well, sort of...

The monitor has a proprietary connection to the mother board -- not a standard VGA cable. It's a very thin flexible cable that goes through the hinge and then plugs onto the motherboard. It's easy enough to take off the display (a few screws around the hinge area, then usually also the top cover of the laptop), but you'll then have to figure out which wires are which (including power) on the proprietary cable -- I haven't seen these documented anywhere, and they're different for different brands of laptops.
Good luck :)

Answer 2

Not without a special card and bunch of geeky wiring work. By the time you were done, it would be cheaper to buy an LCD monitor. The video drive and interface to the laptop screen are on the motherboard. Not the same interface as a regular monitor gets.

Have you tried to find a MB for the laptop?
You could sell it as-is on ebay and maybe get a few bucks anyway. Make sure you take out the hard drive if you sell it.

Answer 3

You can probably replace the motherboard with a new one and continue to use the laptop, but I seriously doubt you'll be able to take the LCD screen out and use it. It's theoretically possible, but that would be one heck of a mod job. In other words, unless you're a pro the answer is no.

Answer 4

Well - I suppose it would be a functioning LCD monitor you could use. When you take apart the laptop there will be a ribbon cable connecting it to the base.

The hard part is figuring out what each wire does.

Answer 5

I've tried this. I'm pretty sure it's possible but you'd have to hack and slash that thing and spend more money on a lot of other parts just to get it working.

Answer 6

Go to ebay and sell it with the screen.Depending on the make and parts inside you can get from 100.00 to 200.00 beans...