I undid an old (non-powering up) laptop, pulled out the LCD panel, undid that, put it back to gether, looked on the back for the serial number, went to the web, and found... its too hard/expensive to try make any old panel work.
But I wonder: Since the laptop has integrated video controller on board, would it not be possible to connect the PCI bus from a desktop PC to the laptop PCI bus? I understand there would be a need to power the laptop motherboard, what else would one need to do to get the laptop board to appear as a video card to the desktop system? Probably remove laptop parts that would interfere and try to control the bus, I'm sure... anyone have an idea?
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I undid an old (non-powering up) laptop, pulled out the LCD panel, undid that, put it back to gether, looked on the back for the serial number, went to the web, and found... its too hard/expensive to try make any old panel work.
But I wonder: Since the laptop has integrated video controller on board, would it not be possible to connect the PCI bus from a desktop PC to the laptop PCI bus? I understand there would be a need to power the laptop motherboard, what else would one need to do to get the laptop board to appear as a video card to the desktop system? Probably remove laptop parts that would interfere and try to control the bus, I'm sure... anyone have an idea?