I have two lap top computers. One a great beast of a Toshiba that works very well, but the LCD screen is dim and now, alas, almost illegible $500 and up to replace.
I have a Packard Bell beautiful laptop, in good shape, but equipped with antique DOS, limited memory and now has suffered a hemorrhage in the DOS system. It has a screen which works beautifully.
Can I take the screen from the Packard Bell and put it in the Toshiba and have a great working, clear screened, but heavy, lap top?
Or are LCD screens somehow set up only to work with one type of computer? On the surface, they look the same. One, the Toshiba, has a single bright/dim dial and the Bell has two sliders, one for contrast, one for bright/dim.
The Toshiba has one connection from the bright/dim dial to the screen and one connection from the computer. I’ve not yet cracked open the Bell.
I thought I’d ask first.
I’m starting to amass a collection of used laptops, it seems.
The screens are probably incompatible, but you might get lucky about it. First thing to check is whether they are even the same resolution (800x600 or 1024x768 etc).
If that matches, you may be able to swap them. But there are still many other things to look at.
I’d suggest that you just take it to a laptop specialty store and ask them if they are compatible. Or if you’d like to do your own research a good place to start looking for LCD info is http://www.eio.com
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While the basic elements of laptop screens are similar the practical differences between brand specific screen-video interfaces would tend to make using one laptop screen on another laptop impractical in the vast majority of cases.
If you are a digital engineering prodigy you might be able to kludge together a mismatched screen/laptop combo but it would be more of an engineering “stunt” than anything useful in a meaningful sense.
