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I have a b154ew04 lcd panel.

Anyone know if there is a way to make this into a desktop lcd?
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lostskeleton | 1 year, 8 months ago
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Hey stillbourne, there is definitely a way to make this LCD into a desktop LCD but it will take a bit of work on your part. Here is the datasheet for this LCD panel with full pin-outs and basic information on how to get it to work and where our signals go. You should figure out the basic pin-out of the computer video card and from there get your power supply. Take a close look at page 6.

http://www.beyondinfinite.com/lcd/Library/Auo/B154EW04_VB.pdf

I hope this helps

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hospadar | 1 year, 8 months ago
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From my own research into the topic, there's really no easy way to get a vga or dvi signal into a raw laptop lcd.

Careful probing of the laptop mobo may reveal that at some point a vga/dvi signal is coming from the video hardware and getting converted for the lcd. Even if this were the case, it would require lots of careful high-frequency logic analysis on a huge number of mystery pins and traces, some of which may not even be accessible on a modern multi-layer laptop mobo. Doesn't sound like fun to me.

The other (and in my minid, the only realistic) option is to build your own driver board. Probably not the worst thing in the world, especially as most lcd panels have publicly available datasheets and/or pinouts.

Driving the ccfl tubes that backlight the lcd should be easy, you can probably pull power supplies out of old monitors or just build your own small inverter/transformer setup to get the HV ac you need to drive them.

Some driver boards/laptops have been shown to work with other panels (of different native resolution, but coming from the same product family), so if you can find a monitor that uses a similar lcd, you might be able to plug and go (since it's advantageous for the manufacturer to be able to re-use driver circuit designs)

There is unfortunately no product I know of that can behave as a universal lcd driver (since almost all lcds use very different proprietary interfaces)

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sjm4306 | 1 year, 8 months ago
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I am in a similar situation, I've pulled a 17" laptop lcd and want to make it into a desktop lcd by feeding it vga and encasing it in legos. The cheapest way would be to make my own driver board, but that will be very time consuming and difficult (as I am stuck in the middle of nowhere at college with sparse free time). Looks like in your case you'd need a rgb to lvds converter which shouldn't be all too difficult to make.

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