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Laptop Monitor
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:52 am
by Kills On Site
I have an old Winbook XL2 which has served me well, but has a failing hard drive and overheating CPU. I tried using some Arctic Silver 5 and zero filling the drive. The zero filling helped, but it was done a while ago. My question is can the monitor be adapted to anything? The monitor is in very good working order and I have been able to detach it. Is this an impossible feat or can it be done?
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:59 am
by Foo
Why post a question that's a google search away from being clearly answered?
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:29 am
by Kills On Site
Well I am hoping you guys could point me to a place that would give detailed instructions on how to extend the wires to get them to be used as a monitor and whatnot.
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:43 am
by JulesWinnfield
Is it a laptop LCD? Generally it'll need the video controller to use it for anything (inside the laptop).
You could always turn it into a kewlio video projector...
http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20041113/
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:01 am
by Foo
Kills On Site wrote:Well I am hoping you guys could point me to a place that would give detailed instructions on how to extend the wires to get them to be used as a monitor and whatnot.
READ
THE
GOOGLE
SEARCH
RESULTS
To see why this is a stupid question.
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:59 am
by Kills On Site
Well I just put Arctic Silver 5 on another part, there was the metal touching the processor which is what I first put AS5 on, but there is another part that leads to a heatsink that had a thermal pad that I scratched off and put AS5 on and now it works fairly well, as in it doesn't crash.