Removing screen from Notebook.

[Pelikal]

This is kind of related to my thread on networking a PC to my Mac. That particular endeavour has gone off the boil a touch partly due to niggles with the HP dv8000 display. It was given to me and the known issue was a broad black vertical band on the left of the display. The unit was still usable with a bit of jiggering with taskbar/menu positions.

But it was starting to p!ss me off and then yesterday, after trying to get a Wacom tablet working with it, a broad white band developed on the right of the display. This made the machine unusable.

From previous research, I knew these issues were quite common with displays used in HP machines. A basic suggestion is to connect an external monitor to establish that it's definitely the display that is up the creek and not something else. Today I managed to borrow a monitor from chap along the path and indeed the image is fine.

Chap suggested that I remove the screen completely from the notebook at the hinge and place the monitor behind the notebook. That struck me as quite a good idea and certainly cheaper than replacing the screen.

But what issues could there be in doing this?

Would the machine boot up at all without the built-in monitor connected?

Would the procedure be destructive? I may want to have portability at a future date. Just wondered if anyone here has done something similar.

Thanks!

[Milo Minderbinder]

It will actually be more work to remove the screen and lid completely than it will be to just fit a new screen panel. This model looks easy to fit a new panel in, it can be done without removing the lid
If you really really want to remove the lid completely then it involves taking the keyboard out to get at the connecting leads, and removal of the wireless ariel as that runs round the lid (as does the bluetooth ariel if fitted). And one removed it can be a PITA getting the hinges realigned properly.
Just do it properly and fit a screen. Its probably cheaper than you thought as well


Video of how to remove the screen panel
HP DV8000 how to remove LCD - YouTube

Reliable company to buy the screen from (I use them a lot: always in stock, excellent delivery)
Hp Compaq Pavilion Dv8000 17" Laptop Screen from www.accupart.co.uk Europes no 1 supplier for quality laptop screens (http://www.accupart.co.uk/hp_compaq/hp_compaq_pavilion_dv8000_17_laptop_screen_P1275.html) (same company is also on Ebay as "LCDKings"

[Pelikal]

Ok, thanks, Milo. I reckon the chap/chapess in the vid. has done it before! The external monitor I'm hooked up to is a 17'' emachines 700G, not wide screen. I'm actually finding the lack of wide screen is not a bother. The screen height is greater than the HP built in one and for my DTP work this is an advantage, I'm finding.

Now maybe I can revitalise my goal of networking. The other thread may yet have another post from me. Cheers.

[Milo Minderbinder]

OK, using this guide you should be able to remove it completely

How to Replace an HP Pavilion DV 8000 Display Screen | eHow.co.uk (http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_8020514_replace-dv-8000-display-screen.html)
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remember - a wide screen is a normal screen with the top and bottom cut off.....
widescreens originated because by cutting the panels in that format you could get more individual user panels out of each manufactured sheet. The polymer sheets are made in large sheets and then cut to size. Widescreen gives more efficient use. Its nothing to do with consumer preference or trying to match wide-screen movies. If it was, the aspect ratio would be even wider, in proportion to the cinema screens - which they're not

[Pelikal]

Milo, that info on the wide screen format is interesting. "remember - a wide screen is a normal screen with the top and bottom cut off.." I suspected it was something like that but I didn't want to appear dumb.

This 1:1.3 aspect ratio (or what ever it is) suits me fine. I think I'll hold back on carving up the HP and get back to the networking. Sorry, two threads are becoming 'mangled'.

[Saab Dastard]

I hate wide screen laptops. Bloody useless for everything except watching HD movies, which I don't do. The height is stupid for any sort of document, picture, diagram etc. unless it's landscape, which they rarely are in business docs. a 15.6" widescreen laptop sounds like a great improvement on a 14" standard screen, but it's actually worse.

Widescreen external monitors are a different kettle of fish, being big enough to present complete A4 portrait at adequate size.



:O

SD

[Pelikal]

SD, in total agreement. Many years ago, a monitor was available that would display a portrait A4 page @ 100%. Now that was something! I come from an age when every single compositing element was defined by code. The AM Vari-typer that I worked for a while was something else. One literally had to step into it! The Compugraphic was not much better.

I'm thinking that maybe if I turned this external monitor on its side and turned the orientation to portrait I may get.......

[Booglebox]

16:10 (1900x1200, for example) screens turned 90 degrees are an excellent idea.