Not too long ago I had pruchased a Dell 15" 1503FP LCD screen for $20 delivered off ebay, no surprise when it arrived and half the panel didn't work> :angry: What did I expect? So for the longest time I had this Lcd Control board and nothing to do with it. I looked for replacement 1503FP LCDs and beside being $100 to $150 they where hard to come by. Well as fate would have it Yoshuaspawn started talking all this crazyness about LVDS panels and control boards. The kind they use on most Laptop LCDs. So I looked at my control board, "hey this has a LVDS connection on it." My lcd board has a 20 pin LVDS connection it. So I did some looking around on Ebay and found a Gateway 15" LCD (LTM150XS-T01) with a 25 pin and 30 pin LVDS connection on it. I did notice however that the panel it'self had two 30 pin FFC connections on it. What if? So I bought the panel $30 delivered off ebay. When I got the panel I removed the Secondary LVDS board from the panel and replaced it with mine - crossed my fingers and BAM! it worked! - 15" 1024x768 LCD Panel=$50

I know it a pretty useless story to most people, but in a throw away society it's nice to find ways to recycle and reuse! thanks - yoshuaspawn

PIC 1 - Dell 1503FP LCD Controller
PIC 2 - Gateway LCD
PIC 3 - Removed 25 pin and 30 pin LVDS adon board.
PIC 4 - 20 pin LVDS connector (Dell)

More Pics!

Great post, maybe you can answer a quick question for me.

I recently nabbed a deal off ebay for a LTN154X1-L01 15.4" LCD with a broken backlight, and I was currious if you have any ideas of what I could purchase to make this work?

This lcd originated from a Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop. I've been told that I could purchase a controller board from Huang (someone in California) However I dont want to spend 450 dollars for him to bio's the screen and provide a board.

Any suggestions of what I could do?

Thanks,


~lobed

This could be a n00bie issue, but I can't access the photos attached to the post. I'm logged in (obviously) but there is only descriptive text, no pics or links.

Pilot error?

No error... they were likely removed by mydiazclan... you could PM him if you were interested in seeing the photo's... perhaps he still has them...

cheers,
gs