mod laptop monitor with dvi female

Just wondering if anyone have modded a laptop screen or any laptop screen replacement with DVI female for ViDocks or desktops?

After going through threads about DIY Vidocks, many people have asked if it's possible to transmit the Vidock to the laptop screen. The responses were no, but is it 100 percent definite?

I inspected my laptop screen to be a generic PnP monitor. The disassembly of the monitor guide is provided by the forum here. In my opinion, I think it's possible to install a switch with a receiver for the DVI to monitor. The works would be 1/3 cosmetic, hardware modification, bios and software reconfiguration. The main idea is have the laptop act initially like a desktop with the plug and play switch. You know, when you install a new video care, the system recognizes the switch, then shuts off the old video adapter.

This is one project I would take if the time is given. It should cost less than 60 dollars, because the cheapest decent flat panel LCD monitor is 100 dollars. The total amount of time spent on the modification should be minimum or otherwise just buy a new monitor right?

 

goodluck! this would be sweet if you got it working

 

im not quite sure what you are trying to suggest. are you planning on putting a standard lcd display in place of the existing one in your notebook because im sure a standard lcd screen uses far too much power for a notebook to be able to handle on its power supply.and youd have to find a display with the same dimensions

 

If wildman is correct in assuming what you're suggesting.... then see his post

I think he means that he wants to be able to switch the laptop's interal video signal between coming from it's internal graphics adapter, and an external one (such as vidock).

I thought your idea was impossible because of the way the laptop screen works with a power inverter and the way the LCD connects to the internal gfx adapter....

But!!

I decided to do a bit of research and came across this:



So say the video cable is just an "untangled" VGA cable... could you not technically add an internal switch that lets you switch between external and internal video input?

This would be very useful for some of the vidock users (and open up a whole load more possibilities, such as using a laptop screen for playing xbox on...)

Does anybody know what kind of cable the one in the picture would be?


edit; so it turns out on a lot of models the video cable is a flat cable, but perhaps this doesnt matter that much?

 

I'm pretty sure that flat video cable connection is digital. If so, it is definitely not VGA.

 

It would make sense with newer laptops with regards to HDCP.

But on the older models where the cards themselves didnt have digital outputs I still believe it may be vga.

Either way, I really can't see it being proprietary... So if you have a laptop spare OP, it's worth a go (provided you know what you're doing)

 

Yeah, good luck OP.

May or may not be helpful:
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/lcd-display/39481-successful-lvds-lcd-installations.html
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=lvds+lcd&btnG=Search&=&aq=f&oq=

 

You are coming from the camp that the ribbon cable supplying the LCD is the same as the desktop outputs simply re-arranged. This is NOT the case. This is over-simplified, but the data traveling over the ribbon cable is not the same as VGA or DVI. The VGA or DVI signal is a middle man with desktop systems. The monitor then does a little work to change the signal into different signals that drive the pixels. Laptops cut it out and directly control the pixels from the video card output.

I think everyone on this forum has gone through a phase where they got real excited and thought they could do this. It's clearly possible to do from a technical standpoint, but it much more cost effective to buy an external display.