Rest in pieces

[unixronin]

cymrullewes' Thinkpad 600E died last night.  It got knocked down onto the floor (again), landing this time directly on its Linksys WPC54G wireless card, splitting the card's casing open and driving it into the machine hard enough to bend two of the four screws that hold the card cage in place and tear one of the mounting ears.  It wouldn't boot after we picked it up.

After cymrullewes almost completely disassembled it, presuming it dead, and fixing the card cage, I took a look at it and couldn't find any obvious physical damage apart from the somewhat mangled card cage and one broken lug on the case.  Perhaps surprisingly, I was able to repair the card cage, and didn't find anything else visibly needing fixing, so I put it back together (with a little head-scratching at some screws I couldn't account for, because I hadn't realized there were screws on the back edge of the case).  To our surprise, it worked.

For a while.  Maybe an hour.  Then the display started acting progressively more and more weirdly, then started displaying only a pink band down the right side of the screen, then just four white horizontal lines, then two, and eventually quit altogether.  And it hasn't displayed a thing since.  The backlight is still working fine, and by connecting an external monitor I've verified that the graphics adapter is still working perfectly, but the screen is dead.  Something in the LCD screen must have cracked, and progressively failed once powered up again.  (I note that no cracks are visible in the screen itself.)

So ... anyone know of any inexpensive sources for a 13.3" XGA LCD screen to fit a Thinkpad 600E?

Update:

We're currently shooting for a used Thinkpad T20 off eBay as a more cost-effective replacement.

Comments

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

Good luck. That's way better than laptops have been in the past.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I have little doubt there'll be the typical eBay last-five-minutes bidding frenzy ... it's too good a deal. :p