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T420 screen upgrade, HD -> HD+

Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 9:59 am
by hxw
Hi, I think it may be time to retire my Faithful T60 so I have decided I want to grab myself a second hand T420 (It's JUST in my budget).
I have found a great priced one on ebay except it uses the HD screen instead of the HD+ screen. Would it be possible to buy the HD+ panel and fit it myself and have it work? Would it maybe require a BIOS flash or something?

Genuinely couldnt find anything while search hence the new topic. I know there was an issue on the T60 where some panels had chips built in so you couldnt do something like this but i dont know if they continued to do it.
Any help would be awesome.

Re: T420 screen upgrade, HD -> HD+

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:27 am
by Python.p
This would quite interested me, too. Did you find solution it somewhere else?

Re: T420 screen upgrade, HD -> HD+

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:38 pm
by Vonfeffer
It seems possible. I don´t know if you have to change the flat cable tough... Here is a link to a forum on which a guy has done it:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo/ ... creen.html

Good luck and please keep us posted!