Thinkpad 560X LCD panel, is it custom or generic?

[Compgeke]

Well, once again a stupid problem. I have a Thinkpad 560X I've owned forever, however the LCD managed to get broken when I dropped a server on the box it was in (but hey, the casing is still in fairly good condition, and it still boots). The thing I haven't yet done though is take apart the LCD casing to see if it's a standard LCD panel inside the casing or if it's custom.

At the moment it does turn on, works fine, and still holds a 6 hour battery charge, with factory OS/2 and Windows 3.1 on it. The specific one is a 233 MHz model with the TFT LCD, maxed out at 96 megs. I would love to get it working again, as it made a great light weight IRC machine with a Wavelan card and DOS.

Thanks!

[ajkula66]

Welcome to the forum!

Sorry to hear about the mishap with your 560X - beautiful old machines they are.

This page might help:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/TFT_display

Good luck.

[adj]

Compgeke,

What terrible bad luck for that to happen to a 560x.

I have a 560x to remind me of the days when it and I traveled to the IBM Yamato Lab as part of my work.

On one trip, the panel in my 560x died, so it was straight round to the flat-panel group to have it fixed. I learned that there were two major panel sources for the 560x, an IBM sourced panel and an LG panel. These panels are not compatible so you need to find out which panel you are looking to replace. In my case I had an LG panel, for which a spare just happened to be lying around, and so I was up and running quite quickly.

I hope that this helps you recover the situation.

Best wishes,