[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

I have an old insprion 1150 laying around wiht burnt up power transistors on the motherboard. So being the geek/nerd I am I took off the LCD. I was wondering if anybody could help me interface this to work on a normal VGA or DVI signal. I don't have too much information on it right now, and will be uploading a picture of it later tonight. I was wondering if anybody has ever done this or has expirience with this kind of thing that they could help me with

There is always a possibility that when the power transistors went they took a lot of other stuff with them like the LCD. It is also possible the transistors were the power supply for the backlight. Have you tried powering the beast with a VGA monitor attached to the external monitor port?