About a month ago, the backlight on my laptop went out. In the old economy I would have just asked for a new laptop from my company. Unfortunately they are not doling out the money for new hardware these days. Since our laptops are not under warranty anymore, if I wanted a fully functional computer, I had to take matters into my own hands.
Luckily we had another dead laptop of the same model in our office. I took both laptops apart, and swapped the entire monitor section, casing and all, with the dead laptop. I needed a new keyboard so while I was at it I swapped that too.
A week ago, calamity struck again; I broke the LCD on the new monitor; leaving me with a good backlight but a broken screen. Today, a coworker and I performed another transplant. We completely disassembled the monitors of both laptops. We took the backlight out of the broken LCD and swapped it with the backlight in the other one, and then put it all back together. This was not nearly as easy as the first transplant, because the backlight is sealed inside the LCD as one unit. It is not really designed to be stripped down that far. But we did it, and now I’m back in business! Yea!
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Thinkpad T42p
LCD
backlight
4 comments:
Wow, good job! It helps having a good backlight on hand, especially for the T42p laptops w/ the UXGA LCD. You should see the Hitachi screens! Yikes! If you ever go to sell some of those broken units I'm interested =)
Dude, you NEED to lose some weight.
Had to do something very similar to my laptop a couple years ago. Yeah...working with LCD monitors on laptops can be a pain. :)
LoL good job and do lose some weight hehehe..
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