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Got an SXGA+ X60 tablet for cheap on eBay. Cheap because it's in bad shape: the LCD front bezel is completely shattered. The screen itself was OK, but there were a few spots where brightness was uneven, which looked like diffuser/polarizer damage. So I opened it up and took out the diffuser/polarizer layers, and indeed they have rub marks on them. Tried to replace them with the innards of another panel (an XGA panel for X60 tablet), but the shape didn't fit. During reassembly I must have exerted too much force on one of the ribbons going to the LCD layer, because now the image on that panel is corrupted Oh well, at least it had problems to begin with. Anyone interested in the dead panel?

(So far I have opened up 3 LCD panels, and 2 ended up worse than before. Maybe I should stop trying to fix them...?)

twistero wrote:(So far I have opened up 3 LCD panels, and 2 ended up worse than before. Maybe I should stop trying to fix them...?)

Gnothi seauton! For the money 'burned' here, you probably could have bought a working SXGA+ machine...

RealBlackStuff wrote: Gnothi seauton! For the money 'burned' here, you probably could have bought a working SXGA+ machine...

Thankfully, it's not 3 SXGA+ panels that I have destroyed.

The first one was an XGA panel, HT12X21 from a Fujitsu Lifebook T4020D which had a bad motherboard. I swapped its digitizer on to my X41 tablet, and its CCFL backlight tube, diffuser and polarizer layers on to the next panel below. Even though I managed to crack the actual LCD layer in this panel, the parts it provided was probably worth the price.

The second one was an XGA HT121X03, the panel I used to have in my X60 tablet. It came with bad backlight and quite a few damaged spots on the polarizer. I fixed it with the guts from the panel above, and now it's working adequately, though still with a couple of pressure marks.

The third one is the SXGA+ panel in the OP. Now that one was a real loss.

And I already have a working SXGA+ screen in my X60 tablet, thanks to a forum member

There's a (slim) chance it may not be fatal...

If it's one of the ribbons on the side it could just have come unstuck at the back, in which case if you stick it back it may work again. The really precise connectors are inside, I think, sandwiched between two layers of the lcd glass.

That's what happened to some guy I know, anyway...

trmsw wrote:There's a (slim) chance it may not be fatal...

If it's one of the ribbons on the side it could just have come unstuck at the back, in which case if you stick it back it may work again. The really precise connectors are inside, I think, sandwiched between two layers of the lcd glass.

That's what happened to some guy I know, anyway...

Well, I didn't see anything getting unstuck, but it can't hurt to take the panel apart one more time just to check There's nothing to lose anyways.

the black rubber border of the first sheet may have stuck to the cable and then pulled it away from the glass as shifted the glass to fit the frame.

Hi Twistero,

While trying to fit an SXGA+ screen in my X61S, I must have bumped one of the ribbon cables and I got some small, vertical 'scan lines' on the left side of the screen.
I could push on the ribbon cable in just the right spot and the lines went away.
Nothing to lose, so I superglued that one section back in place, precisely holding the cable in place with my finger.
It worked!

Might be worth a try.
To discover where to push, with the laptop turned on, I held the screen in my hand(not installed in the lid) and tried gently pressing in different areas.

Thanks and good health, Weogo