The 6300 family is known to have a nasty firmware bug that Intel hasn't fixed (card was desupported long ago) and there's no fixing it in the software driver either. The 63xx has always been a dog. Almost any other card, even older ones, are better choices as they'll actually work reliably and not c...

I'm still getting to rebuilding the screens (I'm getting to the work here and there). Most will be in good shape once I finish, but I've had to carefully disassemble and evaluate each one. I'm getting there--- I need to finish my T70 QXGA rebuilds first. I'll get back in touch with people when scree...

Still re-rebuilding the Chinese screens, just so there are no surprises. Sorry about the lag, I don't have as much free time right now as I used to

Mine happens specifically when I close the screen but don't turn it off. That seems to me like it's a temperature problem or something, since the screen would be heated up by the laptop body (maybe). In my case the edge turns completely white, regardless of what's being displayed and I can repeated...

wileE wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:52 am

Here is a picture from the german forum of a T60 with a very similar effect:
https://imgur.com/qej2GWS
Cause unknown, and it went away after several hours by itself.

Yeah, it's in the same place but looks quite different from what I'm seeing.

Thanks, but I do have lots of dark gray test images. *nod*, just giving you my specific worst-case test screen for the examples here. I can say that the retro-tv effect can get better by time. Takes several months. I always thought the effect was due to static electricity in the layers of the scree...

I tweaked it the other direction and the problem disappeared. By how much did you turn it? Tried it on a screen without the retro-tv effect with no visible effect. I have two screens with darker left side edge and corners. But I cannot imagine how I could have managed to change the adjustment of VR...

jaspen-meyer wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 09, 2018 11:30 am

I'll take an original, or even a "not half bad".

Yeah, the good news is that despite the average quality dropping hard, there were still gems in the latest batch.
I'll jot that down and send you an email.

Monty

Hi Xiphmont. Are the digitizers on these SXGA screens pen-enabled or just touch? Would be interested in a couple of screens if pen-enabled as well. Thanks. Regards. Dave The digitizers are the usual pen-only, no finger touch. FTR, you can take the touch glass and digitizer backplane off an XGA tabl...

https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/92996.html tl;dr summary: many (most?) of the 12" HV121P01 SXGA screens with a 'bathtub ring' or 'retro-tv' effect around the edges are not defective, VR1 simply got knocked out of adjustment. THE WHOLE STORY: This is one of those occasions where I feel like a complet...

Oh I got baited hard... Most recent (much larger) shipment arrived---- none were legit. A few weren't half bad but most were terrible. More than half were even glossy.

So forget about that lead >-(

I think I have some good news with respect to SXGA screens; I bought a number on a few occasions from a specific AliExpress seller who appear to have legit stock. Details in another post here: viewtopic.php?f=80&t=126895

Hi folks, I've been one of the folks complaining about low-quality rebuilt SXGA screens all over eBay and Alibaba, and promised I'd alert folks if I found a worthy alternative. I think I have good news--- I've bought a quantity of screens from https://www.aliexpress.com/item/HV121P01-100-for-IBM-X60...

Tangentially related question, I have a pair of X60s-es with spotty screens so I'm scouting for replacements. It's not just a drop-in replacement for IPS screens, is it? (Even with just the XGA one.) In this somewhat old guide for putting an IPS in non-Tablets, it mentions a converter cable is requ...

Thinkpad4by3 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 22, 2018 3:42 pm

So are you telling me a seller on eBay selling SXGA+ displays with 60K stars & 99% feedback is a phony?

I'm telling you *several* of them are selling rebuilt (aka phony) screens, yes.

It was an Ebay acquisition many years ago, but unless someone took the trouble to remove everything, replace the screen and put the digitizer and front plate back on...no idea. ...hmm, well, I always do... (I don't sell on eBay though) Send me a PM if you're interested in a lid swap / trade and wan...

Interesting. My SXGA+ has the damaged polarizer pattern sometimes (when it gets hot / close the lid with the screen on), but I get a white ring around the edge with that exact shape. Is that the same or something else? I pulled this from a tablet with everything on it (clips, digitizer, front plate...

Hi folks, I've recently written a quick blog post I should have written years ago. After several email queries this month, I finally wrote it: https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/90510.html I'll reproduce it [mildly abridged] here, you can follow the link above for the original post with inline images. ...

Weird, I was going to send you a PM yesterday offering to buy the board, and simply forgot. I want to debug more thoroughly...

PMing now.

Monty

vavet wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 11, 2017 6:04 pm

I am still looking for one ...

Still looking? I've just started making them.

Monty

I just pulled out the second of my 2nd batch (3rd batch? Not sure which) X62 mobos to install, and the primary SATA channel failed during an OS install (the channel connected to the 2.5" bay) after some amount of heatsink fettling. Previously, it appeared to work properly, now it does not see 90% of...

Oh dang, those are harder. You need a ~30V LED strip and I can't make those (well I can, but I have no PCBs to do so). Does it use LEDs that fire up or sideways? what do you think about these? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-2PCS-255mm-Adjustable-brightness-led-backlight-strip-kit-Upd...

iccfl has sold a bunch of completely different kits. Do you have a pic of your driver (or could you pick out the one it looks most like from https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/thinkpad/led-chinese.shtml ? Along with that, what sense resistors are on your driver (the biggest rectangular resistors). J...

Oh, oops.

I decided to step back away from social media in general and took down a bunch of pages. I was a bit overzealous; let me get those fixed.

Edit: Should be back now. Let me know if I missed anything.

I have an iccfl kit installed on an sxga+ couple of years ago. The brightness now is lower than on a non modified screen :( Could you suggest a led strip that will work directly with the modified x61 board from iccfl.com ? Vavet, iccfl has sold a bunch of completely different kits. Do you have a pi...

My LCD dark from factory. Two years ago http://kodabra.ru/pictures/ok.png After calibration, this is the normal brightness for my display. :? Calibrated the display yesterday. http://kodabra.ru/pictures/no_ok.png khseal: Worry not, you are one of my heroic alpha testers, and I will send you a fully...

Oh *those* LEDs! The grey-market Chinese ones with the crazy-good-seeming measured specs and really awful-looking construction. Well... that answers how long they last, and how they got those specs :-( I should make you a new strip with the Nichias I found shortly after. They're much nicer, and I kn...

khseal wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 09, 2017 2:49 pm

Hi!
As it has long received a test kit. It looks like my LEDs are degraded. Now I can get a maximum of 40-50 nits units.
Perhaps, this problem was due to overheating.

I think you have a kit from before I started keeping records... which kind of kit did you have? Chinese LEDs ar Daylight?

Oh, and I forgot to mention... there's no real 'authentication' that I've run into persay. Some more info from the net (or from the X61 forum;) but this is for X61 battry chip . Anyway protocol requires sending some "magic" bytes to get full access to battery flash and reprogram it. And for sure th...

Also that xiphmont guy was unreachable, I tried to contact hi 3 times, no answer whatsoever. So it was a dead end for me. But this conversion is definitely on my to-do list in the future, as my ccfl backlight is getting dimmer and dimmer slowly. On max brightness is just about enough in room condit...