Anyone ever upgrade lcd panel in a laptop

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:32 pm

Was wondering if this is difficult or even doable? This screen only does 1280x800 and it hurts my eyes after a while of use, unlike my IPS panel on my desktop.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:15 pm

swapping out most of them are easy.. I know Dell's are pretty easy over the rest to swap out.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:24 pm

I've poked around on Ebay and think it's possible without to many issues.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:14 am

Replacing with identicle part number is easy.
"upgrading"...that will depend. I know it's possible, I've seen it mentioned at some specific laptop forums..like some older Thinkpads where people bought a non-flexview screen laptop and added a flexview screen later.

However..gotta have a screen with the same mounts, cabling, etc. And some laptops...the upgraded screens meant an upgraded graphics card, and if you have the base graphics card, the VGA bridle passing to the screen may be different.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:25 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Replacing with identicle part number is easy.
"upgrading"...that will depend. I know it's possible, I've seen it mentioned at some specific laptop forums..like some older Thinkpads where people bought a non-flexview screen laptop and added a flexview screen later.

However..gotta have a screen with the same mounts, cabling, etc. And some laptops...the upgraded screens meant an upgraded graphics card, and if you have the base graphics card, the VGA bridle passing to the screen may be different.

yeah, might just deal with it as it is...seems like a lot of trouble getting things properly matched up for 'upgrades'