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T N Nurse writes
Hi,

I'm working on building a compact rack-mounted PC for audio
recording to hard disk. The main problem I'm having is having
to lug around a large monitor everywhere (which sort of defeats
the 'compact' part of the design!) and to a lesser extent, keyboard
and mouse.

I have an old IBM thinkpad with a faulty motherboard, but the
screen works fine. Is there any way this could be adapted to
act as a monitor? It's res, 1025 x 760, is fine for the purpose.
If I could also get the keyboard and mouse pad running and hook
the lot up to the rack via an umbilical, that would be icing
on the cake!

Any ideas or pointers? A search of Google turned up a few
hits, but mainly people asking the same question.


The question is asked a lot and the answer is always NO.

Because the LCD panels in laptops are driven directly by a chipset on
the motherboard.

You should try selling your faulty laptop for spares on ebay, there is a
good market for that sort of thing.
--
Tim Mitchell