Laptop monitor on a desktop

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

Now if you have some fancy magical way to do this please tell me, I need some information off the hdd and don't have a 2.5" case.

If it's data you need, you should be able to find an adapter (e.g. this) for very little money. If it uses a standard 44-pin laptop ATA interface, all you need is the adapter and a 40-pin ATA cable from your computer, and a computer-style Molex connector to make the drive work.

It's a similar procedure for SATA laptop drives (though I suspect that your laptop is too old for one of those).

[MattK]

LCDs are so cheap today that you might be better of just buying a display. The 19inch display I use is a Westinghouse (prob the same as yours) and I get it for $165 at BB. Put those two suckers together and that would be one nice rig ;-)

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by MattK

LCDs are so cheap today that you might be better of just buying a display. The 19inch display I use is a Westinghouse (prob the same as yours) and I get it for $165 at BB. Put those two suckers together and that would be one nice rig ;-)

what is BB?

and, the LCD has 21 wires i counted. It looked like 4 for power and 17 for signal. The signal ones split into 2 strands but i forgot to count when it was apart.

[MattK]

Sorry BB= Best Buy

[Noah Kleinberg]

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

what is BB?

Probably he means Best Buy, although I can't find a 19" westinghouse monitor on there for $165...