zengrange Posted December 28, 2003 Posted December 28, 2003 Has anyone tried putting a TFT monitor in the side of their case or, a 5'' TFT/LCD in one of their 5.25'' bays? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special_K Posted December 28, 2003 Posted December 28, 2003 im gonna do that as soon as i get the money and use it as my diagnostic screen. hopefully itll be touch sensitive so i can config w/out doin anything else Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zengrange Posted December 28, 2003 Posted December 28, 2003 I've seen a case where there was a small display in the in the top 5.25'' bay and when the drive opens, the screen stands up from the horizontal to he vertical position. Any ideas on how the mechanics of that could work? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigashadow Posted December 28, 2003 Posted December 28, 2003 already did it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zengrange Posted December 28, 2003 Posted December 28, 2003 What did you do? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigashadow Posted December 28, 2003 Posted December 28, 2003 Modded a PS1 5 inch LCD screen to work with my PC. There's two or three ways you can do it. THere's the ultra hard pain in the . way, the sort of a pain in the . and the simple way. THe ultra hard need to have good soldering skills way uses the RGB signals and a bunch of delecate soldering but looks the best when you look at words. The sort of hard way consists of a bit of delecate soldering and looks ok, but you have to have a video card that has this kind of hook up, either compostie plug or a plug converter that looks like headphones plugs. The third way works but is not as clear as the other two, you can use a composite to s-video converter, if your video card has tv out in the form of s-video you can get this s-video to rca converter from Fry's Elecronics for 10 bucks or you can email me at [email protected] and I can get you one for 5 bucks US plus shipping, anyway, you plug the converter in to the s-video on the card then take your composite cable and hook it up to the screen, your image of the desk top will be hard to read words, but videos look sweet. so basically it up to you to decide how you want it hooked up. All three ways depend on some delecate soldering to make the screen work. It has a 7.5 volt plug in for a wall plug, BUT i have found that even with 7.5 volts connected to the screen from your power supply the scren won't turn on, the only voltage I was able to get it to turn on was at 12 volts. At 12 volts the back side of the screen gets warm, which for me is not really an issue since it's mounted in front of a 120mm intake fan on my case so it tends to stay very cold, also the screen case is removed from the LCD screen. Depending on what you want to do one of these options will work for you. One thing you will have to do is solder a power cord from the 12 volts in on the back of the LCD board to a set of wires hooked to the 12 volts on the molex connector. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioActivated Posted December 28, 2003 Posted December 28, 2003 Modded a PS1 5 inch LCD screen to work with my PC. There's two or three ways you can do it. THere's the ultra hard pain in the . way, the sort of a pain in the . and the simple way. THe ultra hard need to have good soldering skills way uses the RGB signals and a bunch of delecate soldering but looks the best when you look at words. The sort of hard way consists of a bit of delecate soldering and looks ok, but you have to have a video card that has this kind of hook up, either compostie plug or a plug converter that looks like headphones plugs. The third way works but is not as clear as the other two, you can use a composite to s-video converter, if your video card has tv out in the form of s-video you can get this s-video to rca converter from Fry's Elecronics for 10 bucks or you can email me at [email protected] and I can get you one for 5 bucks US plus shipping, anyway, you plug the converter in to the s-video on the card then take your composite cable and hook it up to the screen, your image of the desk top will be hard to read words, but videos look sweet. so basically it up to you to decide how you want it hooked up. All three ways depend on some delecate soldering to make the screen work. It has a 7.5 volt plug in for a wall plug, BUT i have found that even with 7.5 volts connected to the screen from your power supply the scren won't turn on, the only voltage I was able to get it to turn on was at 12 volts. At 12 volts the back side of the screen gets warm, which for me is not really an issue since it's mounted in front of a 120mm intake fan on my case so it tends to stay very cold, also the screen case is removed from the LCD screen. Depending on what you want to do one of these options will work for you. One thing you will have to do is solder a power cord from the 12 volts in on the back of the LCD board to a set of wires hooked to the 12 volts on the molex connector. do you have a screenshot of when you had it ...sounds cool Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigashadow Posted December 29, 2003 Posted December 29, 2003 Uhm no, but I can post some shots when i put the ones in my wifes car. Putting one in each headrest and one in the dash. I'll hack one tomarrow and post some quick pics so you get the idea. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special_K Posted December 29, 2003 Posted December 29, 2003 hey anyone know where i can get one of those screen, 5.1" or as big as 7" but no bigger with s-video or composite input? i know i saw some for like, 100 bucks a long time ago but i cant remember where :/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PickledSheep Posted January 3, 2004 Posted January 3, 2004 (edited) check out this page LCD Mod This lcd would be sweet. It looks like it folds out of a 5.25 inch inclosure, for in dash dvd players. Edited January 3, 2004 by PickledSheep Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBlue Posted January 5, 2004 Posted January 5, 2004 thats it, i know what my next mod is going to be! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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