@seasonshu I don't have any issue with the internal LVDS cable in my X230. Sorry I can't provide any helpful information about where to getting a replacement cable.

nitrocaster wrote:You can safely cut the corners of panel's PCB to make it fit. I'll put additional instructions on that in the updated manual.

I'd rather not risk damaging the delicate controller PCB like what happened to Seasonshu. It was no trouble to take a little more material off the lid and bezel.

I fitted the FHD LCD panel into the screen lid today. There were no major issues to note. Having a decent rotary tool with a built in light helped illuminate exactly where to cut for me. @nitrocaster You do mention in a post somewhere that for the SPB4 it is a slightly wider fit in the screen lid. I...

.3 is most definitely matte, but it does have a glossy cover from the factory to protect it in transit before it is fitted, so maybe that is where the confusion is.

I've successfully ran 32GB of Kingston HyperX Impact 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3L CL9 memory (https://www.amazon.com/hyperx-impact-so ... B00KQCOTCM) without issue at 1600MT/s with v1.36 BIOS.

I know, but I won't be. The X230 is intended for working on the go or when I'm in bed.

I was able to rescue the connection to the sense wire though by using conductive ink to connect the remaining top pad of C137 to the via that the bottom of C137 was connected to. A tinned wire was soldered to pin 75 on the back of the docking connector and fed back over to the solder pad on the FHD...

It is by some kind of miracle and after a hard battle through a comedy of errors, but I have finally gotten nitrocaster's fabulous kit to eventually work in the X230. After removing the sense wire solder point on the bottom of C137 so many times to diagnose the problems I was having, the poor solder...

nitrocaster wrote:I'll add extra pictures there.

Thanks. I think that would help clear things up.

How would the top pads of C128/C129 connect to the FHD board? Very simple. Top pads of C128/C129 are connected directly to docking connector pins. Did you even solder points 1-7 ? A :idea: has just turned on. There is no mention of solder points 1-7, on installation guide v0.2, to be soldered direc...

I don't quite understand, wouldn't the tops of C128/C129 be open as they connect to pins 69,71 on the docking connector? If you mean the continuity between them, then they are 0, as they aren't shorted. I mean the continuity between top pads and plated through holes - to make sure you soldered the ...

Check the continuity between top pads of C128/C129 and soldering joints on the adapter board. If those are good too, my guess is that your motherboard is bad. I don't quite understand, wouldn't the tops of C128/C129 be open as they connect to pins 69,71 on the docking connector? If you mean the con...

Where did you measure resistance to ground? Docking connector pins (AUX_P and AUX_N) are expected to have no connection to ground, because they're connected to those two little ceramic caps (rightmost), so your multimeter should indicate 0L here. But if you measure bottom pads of those two caps, it...

nitrocaster wrote:It should work then. Do you have a dock station to test DP#2 output?

I don't. All I have is an ultrabase for it.

nitrocaster wrote:Did you check the cable too?

Yup cable checks out for pins 9,10.

The OS is detecting there is something that is 1920x1080, it just can't send the image to that panel. It should detect two 1920x1080 displays. One fake (adapter board) and one real (the actual display). Here's how the fake display EDID should look like: http://imgur.com/eDXrfwm Check if AUX lane is...

Make sure adapter board is soldered to docking connector properly and these capacitors in the gap are intact. I had a case when user wasn't able to get an image because those two capacitors were fractured. All capacitors are clean and damage free. There are none that are bridged by solder, verified...

I re-soldered the wires and tried again, but the result is still the same. Blank screen with only brightness control :( I even tried to simulate the situation for carcuevas, where the sense wire is not connected, also only brightness control and blank screen. Selecting Fn+F7 does nothing. Also tried...

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technopanda wrote:I tried with both battery and also AC power. No difference.

Uhmm weird, also in the Bios there is an option to select the screen as Digital dock 1/2, maybe it can help..

I tried to set default display to Digital Displayport #2, but that didn't help either.

I tried with both battery and also AC power. No difference.

Nitrocaster, So first of all I'd liked to say thanks for making this kit and giving us all the opportunity to have FHD panels in our X220/X230. I've tried to install it into a X230, but I'm having problems trying to get anything outputted to the FHD panel. All I get is a blank screen. Fn+F7 does not...