The time came, and my trusty laptop screen hinge has worn and busted. floppy is the best way to describe it. a new laptop is in the post (was time to upgrade anyway) but i'm planning to turn my old one (aka Lucy) into a projector with attached PC, by way of removing the back of the TFT and placing it over an OHP, leaving a suitable gap to allow airflow, perhaps even assisted by a fan or two. The laptop in question is an Acer Aspire 1310, and i ask you this - how can i remove the plastic from the back of the TFT (i.e. to make it semi transparent) without damaging the screen? Thanks in advance for any help!
I can't say that this will work for your laptop but with an older one that I took apart, the various sheets of plastic are held in place with a metal bracket. This is probably just a case of removing all the screws you can find until it comes apart and trying to remember how it all fits together.
Haven't had experience with yours in particular, but some I've used (think it was an old compaq) used friction tabs to keep most of it in one piece along with some screws at the base, you could jam a screw driver in the seam along the edges, and pry up a bit to see if you see any tabs
Hi This is my first post and thought I would make it a good one. Most laptops use some sort of proprietry system to run the screens. So it is not just a matter of simply hooking it up to your graphics card. You can buy adapters for some laptop monitors that will make them work, or if you are technical enough and have the time/money you probably could get it to work. unfortunately there is no hard and fast rule but if you look hard enough you may find someone who has already done it and could follow their lead as it were. *Edit* Oh I forgot to mention, I was going to try this too but after not being able to find the info I needed on how to convert my old laptop screen I gave up. I am now waiting for one of my other LCD screens backlight to die
hehe, yeah it does tend to help if you read the post before you post. aww and it was your first one too - shame you didnt actually make it a good one... i'll try just prising it apart like was suggested, thanks all!
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Try this. Check under all the little rubbery bits, and/or stick on covers for all the screws on the screen part only, remove these. Then using a very small flat head screwdriver gently tease the sides of the case and you should find it will pop off very easily. Now one of two things could happen here either the front will come off. In the case of the two laptops I tested this was the case. Or the back may come off. If only the front comes off you will have to unscrew the screen from the rear of the case and mark it up and cut a nice hole. I reccomend some edging material to finish it off with. Or you could just remove the back of the case, can be done sometimes and the hinges will still hold the screen onto the base without any of the surroundings. If you want to post a picture of a removed hinge I might have some spare I have a very broken laptop that would not miss them. They might be some sort of generic fitting. The two laptops I took apart seem to have the same hinge Then remove the backlight, which should be a simple case as it will not be mounted too well. Be careful not to flex the screen as you may damage it at this point. This creates another small problem, some inverters check to see if the backlight is actually there and requires some sort of "dummy" circuit to fool it into believing it is still there. Once reassembled this would give you a laptop that can be placed over an OHP or you could if you feel like having some real fun extend the ribbon cables and other wires so that the screen can be moved away from the laptop altogether
