Any ideas where I can get one?
Have no idea on part number, but I suspect it's possible to buy one still.
Some cowboy has had this laptop apart and broken the pins.
Its 20pins and I thought I was going to be able to unsolder the one off a broken 460CDT but its 25 pins despite being the same screen.
See photos for reference.
Last edited by nzoomed on 2025-02-01, 00:01. Edited 1 time in total.
So you really want to find & re-solder this connector to save this 300CDS with poor passive matrix? Connectors different exactly because one matrix active and another passive.
I would unplug or cut couple wires and solder directly to the board. Cause we not even sure that connector issue is reason of screen line defect.
So you really want to find & re-solder this connector to save this 300CDS with poor passive matrix? Connectors different exactly because one matrix active and another passive.
I would unplug or cut couple wires and solder directly to the board. Cause we not even sure that connector issue is reason of screen line defect.
Sorry, I'm bad, that's a typo. Yes it's a 300CDT model with a TFT display.
Have corrected the title.
I know those two are not interchangeable.
Ideally I don't want to solder to the board, should I have to work on it, Its a pain to disconnect.
nzoomedwrote on 2025-02-01, 00:03:Sorry, I'm bad, that's a typo. Yes it's a 300CDT model with a TFT display.
Have corrected the title.
I know those two are not in […] Show full quote
So you really want to find & re-solder this connector to save this 300CDS with poor passive matrix? Connectors different exactly because one matrix active and another passive.
I would unplug or cut couple wires and solder directly to the board. Cause we not even sure that connector issue is reason of screen line defect.
Sorry, I'm bad, that's a typo. Yes it's a 300CDT model with a TFT display.
Have corrected the title.
I know those two are not interchangeable.
Ideally I don't want to solder to the board, should I have to work on it, Its a pain to disconnect.
What you could do, is find some metal pins that will fit into the holes for the LCD display connector - I'd use some capacitor / led legs, make sure they're long enough to be able to bend round the body of the LCD connector
Bend them round like this:
1 ____ 2__| |______ 3
The idea being that you'd solder these metal pins onto the solder side of the LCD connector and they'd fit over the plastic body of the LCD connector to be able to reach into the LCD cable's pin holes and make a sufficiently good connection.
If they're a bit long then you can use tweezers to guide those two pins in before you fit the rest of the LCD cable connector into place.
