R51 LCD connector pinouts

[steerg]

It's a long shot but ...

I still have the LCD screen from my long defunct R51P and being a 1600x1200 screen, I'd like to use it for other purposes.
Is there a pinout diagram for the LCD/MB connector or a circuit diagram for the motherboard?
Any information about the connector used would be handy too.

Regards
Geoff

[RealBlackStuff]

Welcome to the forum.
That screen would fit in/on any other 15" T41/T42/T43/R50/R51/R52.
You would need either its original UXGA LCD-cable, or the matching UXGA LCD-cable for those models.
This cable-info can be found in all the HMMs, download from here: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail. ... MIGR-39298

It's almost certainly an IDTech N150U3-L6 screen, datasheet here: http://beyondinfinite.com/lcd/Library/I ... U3-L06.pdf

It will probably also work on newer machines, like 15" non-widescreen T60 and R60, provided your screen has an EDID-chip.
T60/R60 need their own LCD cable (see HMM).

[steerg]

Thanks for the info. I wish I'd found that service manual when my R51 (I think) was still working!

The LCD info returned a PDF with 30 blank pages - perhaps a font thing. I'll dig a bit deeper on that site.
EDIT: Forund a copy at: http://chaosweb.complex.eng.hokudai.ac. ... U3-L06.pdf

Still looking for the pinout so I can use this on another project (Raspberry Pi/3D printer)

Regards
GEoff

[RealBlackStuff]

Pinout is on page 10 in the PDF. (5.2 Interface Signal Connector)

[steerg]

Sorry, I meant the pinout of the motherboard connector of the R51 into which the LCD cable plugs.
This would let me use the LEDs on the inverter module.

Perhaps I shoudl just settle for a HDMI-LVDS converter and use just the panel. I'd also have to get an inverter as the pinout of the one supplied is unknown.

Regards
Geoff

[RealBlackStuff]

Same connector as in here: http://elektrotanya.com/ibm_thinkpad_r5 ... nload.html

[steerg]

Thanks once again.
This diagram seems to cover all the required signals and cross referencing it with the N150U3-L06 digram, I might be able to sort something out.
Just need to track down the connector itself. The ID on the circuit diagram leads me in circles so I do some searching throught the Tyco connector database.

Regards
Geoff