dcdomain
Diamond Member
Good evening, I have two dead Portege 3020ct laptops on hand and would like to salvage the LCD screens and use them as part of a home theatre cabinet. I did a quick Google search and found the following:
http://www.moddin.net/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1758
http://www.epanorama.net/wwwboard/messages/1911.html
http://www.smspower.org/dev/forum/messages/10621.html
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=51818&page=3&pp=20
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=56660
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=67909965&m=6590919901
http://www.techwarelabs.com/community/viewtopic.php?start=165&t=1313
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Laptops_Notebooks/Q_20863781.html (pay to see the solution? bleh)
http://forums.pimprig.com/archive/topic/6339.html
http://gbppr.dyndns.org/wwwboard/messages/570.html
Seems as though almost everyone stops this conversion project once they find out that the controller to convert the signals cost around $200. Some other people were stating that a $50 Gamecube screen would be a better project. However I'm not looking into buying new screens or creating anything new, I just feel bad throwing out two laptops with perfectly usable screens. Has anyone been able to pull of a similar project to this for minimal costs? Thanks!
http://www.moddin.net/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1758
http://www.epanorama.net/wwwboard/messages/1911.html
http://www.smspower.org/dev/forum/messages/10621.html
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=51818&page=3&pp=20
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=56660
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=67909965&m=6590919901
http://www.techwarelabs.com/community/viewtopic.php?start=165&t=1313
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Laptops_Notebooks/Q_20863781.html (pay to see the solution? bleh)
http://forums.pimprig.com/archive/topic/6339.html
http://gbppr.dyndns.org/wwwboard/messages/570.html
Seems as though almost everyone stops this conversion project once they find out that the controller to convert the signals cost around $200. Some other people were stating that a $50 Gamecube screen would be a better project. However I'm not looking into buying new screens or creating anything new, I just feel bad throwing out two laptops with perfectly usable screens. Has anyone been able to pull of a similar project to this for minimal costs? Thanks!
