Thinkpads Forum

I just picked up a used SL500(2746-EKU).
The screen and hard drive was missing. So i put in a good 160gig 7200rpm drive and used the VGA to my 32" HDTV and booted up and installed windows.Everything works great on it.
Question is , what screens from what laptops will work in this?
It's a 15.4".
I'm thinking one from any 15.4" T60,T61,T400,R60,R61 will work.
What about from other laptops like Dell,Acer,ect?

OK i have another question.
I never did many screen replacements.
So for the above SL500 thinkpad , i found a 15.4" screen thats from Lenovo and FRU: 42t8694. Google is showing a LED backlight screen.
Can you put a LED screen into a SL500?
How can i find out if the SL500 did come with a LED or LCD screen?

using this: http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/lslwbook.pdf
your type says:

2746-EKU T5870 2.00 15.4" WXGA LED Cam GMA 250G 5400 DVD±RW ✶ Intel 5100 Fing 6 XP Pro Jul 09

so your SL500 did come with an LED-backlit LCD.

you can also check what the FRU of the original LCD is by going here:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product ... ookup.page
enter the type and serial, then look for where it says LCD and it'll say the FRU.