Laptop recycle.

me and my room mate acctually have that exact model of laptop. mine is sitting right next to me at this very moment. the problem your going to have with useing a laptop lcd panel is going to be interfaceing with the lcd driver chipset. you would have to get down and dirty and really into the electronics logic of it. once you got that figured out you could get some kind of programable interupt controler chip and make it do whatever you want. when you say the screen broke off can you be more speciffic? there is possably somethings that you could to do fix it. i have taken mine appart countless times so i know all the little bits on it. maybe if you describe the exact problem we can find a solution so that you have a fully functioning all one peice system again. failing that you could always dissassemble it and sell the parts on ebay. the screen should fetch a good chunk of change

Unless you're going extremely slimline, why bother messing about with the LCD pin-outs?

The total height of this motherboard inside my 5150 is a little under an inch when you remove the stock heatsinks. The LCD panel assembly is around a half inch, so combined with a spacer (Motherboard on back of LCD panel) you're looking at a total thickness of around 1 and 3/4".

Working on making a case to house the motherboard and LCD screen with mounting hardware at the moment. Doing it in the cheapest fashion you can imagine, using old greybox side panels..cutting them into the pieces I'll need and using a small handheld riveter I found over at Canadian Tire.

Just looking around the interweb currently for laptop deals..Dell has nice little laptops, (my preference) for $500 and up, If I were a bold man I'd buy those things in bulk, turn them all into window kits, package em and start a website.

But I'm not a bold man.

Well, time for work.

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