Complete Screen T60 2007 Can somebody help compatibility

[axelo]

Hi,

My T60's screen has turned dim. Its apparently a common problem.
The fault either is a broken inverter board or a broken backlight.
An extern monitor works fine, so I am not totally out of order.
Anyway, I decided after long consideration to buy a new complete screen.

Here is an item on ebay.de (I am German) which caught my eye:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Display-Lenovo-T ... 19daef0fb2

Can somebody tell me if the screen is compatible to my Thinkpad T60 2007 CTO?

You would help me very very much!

Greetings
axelo

[Johan]

Welcome to the forum!

Unfortunately, we can't help you based on the information you have so far provided, since you don't have a "standard" ThinkPad (where we could easily see its parts inside), but because you have a "CTO" which means "configured to order". What you therefore have to do is go to the IBM Support Portal and enter the laptop model (= 2007) and its serial-number, which is a seven-figure combination (a mix of letters and digits) that you will either find on the label at the bottom of the machine and/or which is visible in BIOS. When you enter this information you will see a list of the components that was used to build this machine, incl. the LCD (and example of such a list can e.g. be seen in this post where the LCD in this case is the item listed "42T0362 42T0363 FLT PNL DS FRU 14.1 XGA Y"

Let's know that - or post the serial-number of your laptop here but do only post thos information if the warranty on it has expired - check this using the Lenovo Warranty Lookup site where you can also do a Parts Lookup --> here.

Johan

[axelo]

on the back is a label that says:
TYPE 2007 CTO #############
Product ID 2007WE7.
Apart from that there is no information I can find abou a serial number. Unfort. I cannot
view the BIOS because the screen is too dim. External monitor is only working in Windows mode.

Thanks for your effort though

[twistero]

The serial number is the part on the label that says "S/N ##-#####".

Based on that, Parts Lookup returns the following:

13N7060 13N7061 PANEL LCD14.1SXGA+ Yes

Alternatively, the usual "Quick path" returns the following for 2007WE7:

Based on 2007-CTO: T2500(2GHz), 1GB RAM, 100GB 7200rpm HD, 14.1in 1400x1050 LCD, 64MB ATI Radeon X1300, DVD, Intel 802.11abg wireless, Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, UltraNav, Secure chip, 6c Li-Ion batt, WinXP Pro

Therefore the OP has a 14.1 inch SXGA+ screen.

P.S. To the OP: people will come along and ask you to remove the serial number from your post above, as it's usually considered bad practice to post serial numbers.

[axelo]

Thank You very much!
You helped me a lot!

[RealBlackStuff]

@Johan:
why do it simple, if you can do it complicated, resp. v.v.?
T4x/R5x/T6x/R6x/X6x laptops have both TYPE and PRODUCT ID on the label.
In the above case, all you needed to do was ask for the Product ID:
TYPE 2007-CTO
PRODUCT ID 2007WE7
Only if both are xxxx-CTO, then you're out of luck and you do need the S/N for parts lookup.
And rather than going to the slow Lenovo site, that is quite often aggravatingly slow, or forever down for some service,
go to IBM instead: http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/parts