I don't know the answer, but I've swapped panels in desktop LCD monitors a couple times. They were 1280x1024 TFTs.
With one swap it worked, but with the other swap the screen didn't turn on and I could smell that it burned something. So I'm only 50/50 doing swaps like that. Apparently there can still be important electrical differences even though the connectors are the same.
When I did the swap that burned something, I don't know if the damage was to the panel or the electronics that plugged into it.
I believe the panel needs to be the same type (HPA or active TFT) and resolution as the old one. I think that by the time you get to the cable that plugs into the panel, the electronics are fixed to assume that it's talking to a particular panel of one resolution. I doubt that it can detect and adapt to different resolution panels, but I could be wrong and if somebody knows differently I'd love to learn.
I believe if you really wanted to change the resolution you'd probably need to change other components besides just the panel.
This probably isn't very helpful, maybe somebody knows more about this. All I've done is cross my fingers and randomly attempt to swap panels a couple times (matching resolutions) and got lucky one time and failed the other time. I don't really know the proper way to know if a panel is compatible.
