LCD Question

[Brytowski]

Ok I tried browsing through the forums and even searching but could not find an exact answer to my question....

Basically I have 2 A22m 2628-STU's one the board doesnt work correctly (Intermittently powers off, if you let it sit will stay on for over 30mins but each time after that it will be less and less until it does not even get past the Splash screen. I did see some fixes for this and have attempted all but reseating the CPU I need to pick up more thermal grease before attempting)

The other does not have an LCD assembly at all but the board works perfectly. Now before just trying to swap the boards I tried to just go the easy route and take the LCD assembly off of one and put it onto the other, once completed and the powered on nothing happens, lights come on but no POST the screen lights up a little but no data is displayed and nothing happens. I did read somewhere that all serial #'s are stored on the board (for major components) and the serial would need to be changed for the LCD prior to doing this.....but alas I do not have the Thinkpad Maintenance Diskette (v1.6) so this cannot be completed....ALSO I have another A22m 2628-TSU with a board that works but an LCD on the fritz (only works when you put pressure directly on the top of the LCD) and when attempting to swap the working LCD onto this laptop the same thing happens.....

So basically what am I doing wrong? Am I missing a step? Is there a certain part that needs to be kept consitent that I am not swapping?

any help would be great

Thanks

[Brytowski]

any ideas? Still having this issue, still seems like I need the Thinkpad Maintenance Diskette v1.6 or higher

[Brytowski]

Alright I finally got a copy of the IBM Maint Disk v1.6 (from IBM) and Im just not sure exactly what is next, I have the 2 LCD's that i want to swap and can check the serial #'s from them and not sure what is next step to swapping them I have the Maintemance Manual and it doe snot describe any of the symptoms that i am having when swapping monitors....The monitors do not work on the other laptops Do I need to replace a certain part? is there a specific part that the laptop needs that it recognizez ie cables LCD inverter Video Card etc?? I could really use the help thanks

[dannydoo]

is this disketee thing true?

I think he has a bad inverter or something else.Maybe the pins are in a different configuration? I hear some will plug right in but the pins need to swapped around