Laptop died, anyone good with hardware?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Well if there wasn't a short; now there certainly will be.

Salvaging parts is basically removing expansion cards (i.e. wireless internet adapter/card), hard disk, sometimes memory. Expansion card and memory will (very likely) be located in the same compartment as the motherboard; hard disk is usually a different compartment.

EDIT: You may (likely: will) need a precision screw kit because some of the jumpers used to snap the cards/memory in place are far too fiddly to operate with your fingers (unlike their counterparts on standard ATX motherboards).

[Myrddraal]

Salvaging those parts is (relatively) easy. I'm talking about salvaging the LCD, which from what I've read, is rather more complicated and can be expensive, the problem being one of Analogue to Digital controllers.

Ideally, I'd like to salvage the LCD screen and the active digitizer (tablet pen) and get this into some format which can be connected as a second screen to another tablet.

Failing that, I'd like to salvage either one (the digitizer or the LCD, either can be useful independent of each other)

If it takes a lot of effort, I'm keen. If it takes a lot of money, I'm not so keen, but it's worth investigating.

The screen model is:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Item Specification

Vendor & model Name
12.1XGA TABLET HYDIS
HT12X21
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Mechanical Specifications

display area (diagonal, inch)
12.1

Display technology
TFT

Resolution
XGA (1024x768)

Supports colors
262K

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Optical Specification

Brightness control
keyboard hotkey

Contrast control
No

Typical White Luminance
180

Contrast ratio
450

Response time (msec)
40 (Tr+Td)

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Electrical Specification

Supply voltage for display (V)
3.0 (Min.), 3.3 (Typ.), 3.6 (Max.)

Viewing Angle Range
80 (left/right/down/up)

Found this info on digitalview.com

HT12X21-230 BOE Hydis 12.1 1024x768 180 450 3.3

Back

Digital View's Engineering Department has performed a preliminary assessment of this panel.
In addition to the controller solutions above, we believe the following panel connection kit will work:

ALR-1400, SP-1600, SVH-1920, DVS-1600 & HE Series controllers: Use LVDS cable P/N 426492200-3. Select LVDS data "mapping B" dip switch settings.

Please refer to the user manual for specific jumper settings.

Please review the Digital View user manual for important configuration instructions.

Which means very little to me right now, but hopefully will soon mean more...