Is there something wrong with me?

OMG that is worse than my Beer bottle and Volvo parts collection

Now if you happen to come across a good lcd screen that will suit a Toshiba A10 I need one. Dodgy Sharp lcds, known to fail apparently. Have replaced the invertor and is not that so according to local computer techs needs a new screen. So any one having a Toshiba screen A10 or similar for wrecking let me know.

How much can I get for a working p50? :)

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Originally Posted by CraigE

Now if you happen to come across a good lcd screen that will suit a Toshiba A10 I need one. Dodgy Sharp lcds, known to fail apparently. Have replaced the invertor and is not that so according to local computer techs needs a new screen. So any one having a Toshiba screen A10 or similar for wrecking let me know.

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Did you replace the tube when you replaced the invertor? Often enough it's the tube that's gone. I haven't replaced a tube before, but I've replaced screens on laptops often enough. Takes between half an hour and an hour depending on how tricky the hinges and wire from the screen to the keyboard are.

I saw a bunch on ebay.com but they're all at about $150. For this kind of stuff I usually set up a search and wait for the right bit to turn up at the right price, but I've got lots of spare computers and lots of patience for that stuff.

Cheers
Simon

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Originally Posted by Quiggers

Looks a bit like my shed,

think of all the precious metals in those boxes!

If only they could be easily melted down and the gold etc recovered.

Oh well.......

GQ

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It's really not all that hard to recover the gold. I work in the processing side of the gold mining industry and know a few ways it can be done - but would it be worth it ???? I think you'd have to process a lot of computers.

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Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Which leaves me with three for us, eight or ten antiquated Macs, and about a dozen old laptops.

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Nope I think that's pretty normal.
We had a bulk rubbish recently so I only have about 5 computers around the house now.

The bad thing is that if you hang on to them for too long they are worth nothing, you did good selling them.

Not hard to pull the screen out and replace, just getting the right size screen at a decent price.From what I can see it does not have a seperate CCFL lamp but is one of the lcds with it built in. Pulled it apart the other night to have a look and the wires from the invertor go straight in to the screen and does not apear to got to a lamp. This is probablly why the techy I had look at it initially said if it is not the invertor in these the screens need replacing. Was not game to pull all the backing layers of the lcd apart to check, but did pull off the framing and glass to check. The lcd still works but is dark. Apparently a well known problem with Toshibas with these Sharp screens. If anyone knows any different please post.

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Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Did you replace the tube when you replaced the invertor? Often enough it's the tube that's gone. I haven't replaced a tube before, but I've replaced screens on laptops often enough. Takes between half an hour and an hour depending on how tricky the hinges and wire from the screen to the keyboard are.

I saw a bunch on ebay.com but they're all at about $150. For this kind of stuff I usually set up a search and wait for the right bit to turn up at the right price, but I've got lots of spare computers and lots of patience for that stuff.

Cheers
Simon

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Originally Posted by CraigE

Not hard to pull the screen out and replace, just getting the right size screen at a decent price.From what I can see it does not have a seperate CCFL lamp but is one of the lcds with it built in. Pulled it apart the other night to have a look and the wires from the invertor go straight in to the screen and does not apear to got to a lamp. This is probablly why the techy I had look at it initially said if it is not the invertor in these the screens need replacing. Was not game to pull all the backing layers of the lcd apart to check, but did pull off the framing and glass to check. The lcd still works but is dark. Apparently a well known problem with Toshibas with these Sharp screens. If anyone knows any different please post.

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I think that the screen working but being too dark to see is classic blown ccfl behaviour. Try this site http://www.laptopsockets.co.uk/backl...Backlights.htm

And here are some pics
http://www.laptopsockets.co.uk/tx41d...structions.htm

The problem I have is that I have pulled it apart and can find the invertor easily but not a ccfl lamp, yet on the back of the lcd it says ccfl? Any thing I need to know where to find it?

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Originally Posted by CraigE

The problem I have is that I have pulled it apart and can find the invertor easily but not a ccfl lamp, yet on the back of the lcd it says ccfl? Any thing I need to know where to find it?

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I think it's just a matter of following the white wires from the inverter. Last one of these that I played with had the ccfl under the tape/copper stuff frames the screen. I had to peel that stuff off to find the ccfl.

Cheers
Simon.