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Can you hardmod a laptop monitor and use it for a desktop pc?

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Yes, quite easily actually. Just be aware to do it means ripping the screen out of the laptop; there is no way to just add an HDMI in to a working laptop - sort of.

 

Open up the screen assembly on the laptop and get the part number off of the back - then just go on ebay and search for that part number and 'driver'. They usually go for about $30. Most of them will give you hdmi, dvi and vga inputs. Some have composite inputs as well. They will have backlight drivers on the same board and some include a separate board with push buttons to navigate an on screen menu for settings like brightness and contrast.

 

If you want to continue to use the laptop, although you can't DIRECTLY add HDMI input, what you could do is buy a USB HDMI video capture device. It's not ideal and would probably add a ton of latency, but your HDMI source looks like a webcam to the computer and you could then just use whatever software you want to play back that video feed full screen.

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Yes, but you have to get adapter for the ribbon cable that plugs into the laptop display.

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Yes, quite easily actually. Just be aware to do it means ripping the screen out of the laptop; there is no way to just add an HDMI in to a working laptop - sort of.

 

Open up the screen assembly on the laptop and get the part number off of the back - then just go on ebay and search for that part number and 'driver'. They usually go for about $30. Most of them will give you hdmi, dvi and vga inputs. Some have composite inputs as well. They will have backlight drivers on the same board and some include a separate board with push buttons to navigate an on screen menu for settings like brightness and contrast.

 

If you want to continue to use the laptop, although you can't DIRECTLY add HDMI input, what you could do is buy a USB HDMI video capture device. It's not ideal and would probably add a ton of latency, but your HDMI source looks like a webcam to the computer and you could then just use whatever software you want to play back that video feed full screen.

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On 2018/4/19 at 5:16 AM, braneopbru said:

Yes, quite easily actually. Just be aware to do it means ripping the screen out of the laptop; there is no way to just add an HDMI in to a working laptop - sort of.

 

Open up the screen assembly on the laptop and get the part number off of the back - then just go on ebay and search for that part number and 'driver'. They usually go for about $30. Most of them will give you hdmi, dvi and vga inputs. Some have composite inputs as well. They will have backlight drivers on the same board and some include a separate board with push buttons to navigate an on screen menu for settings like brightness and contrast.

 

If you want to continue to use the laptop, although you can't DIRECTLY add HDMI input, what you could do is buy a USB HDMI video capture device. It's not ideal and would probably add a ton of latency, but your HDMI source looks like a webcam to the computer and you could then just use whatever software you want to play back that video feed full screen.

Thank you very much!

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