P170HM3 display

[mirekm]

Hello to everybody.

I am user of the Clevo P170HM3. And after the years of using I want to change the display to B173HW01.

I tried today. But I found, that laptop have 50 pins plug instead of 40 pins.

Is there any way to connect that new display to it?

[Bakedtikkapudding]

You have to replace the LCD cable and therefore you need to disassemble the whole laptop.

[mirekm]

You have to replace the LCD cable and therefore you need to disassemble the whole laptop.

I bought a cable. Now I dismounted complete laptop. And there is surprise.

There is missing socket for the 40 pin cable.

There is place for the socket, but it have to be soldered into the main board.

It is possible, that there are missing also several passive elements on the main board.

So probably it will be impossible, or at least difficult to get it running.

[jaybee83]

hm, isnt it possible to use 30/40 pin cables in a 50 pin connector? at least i thought it was...

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[Khenglish]

The 40-pin lvds connector is only present on P170HM laptops. Your HM3 only has an eDP connector. In addition, clevo rewired the motherboard eDP connector for later systems with more standard 30, 40, and 50 pin screens, so you cannot use their eDP cable for newer eDP screens without rewiring the cable.

[mirekm]

On this what I can see in the Pin description of the displays, there are different signals used in 50 pin (eDP), and 40 pin (LVDS), so probably it will be not possible to rewind the cables.

I bought both types of the cable, so I could make it, when is it possible.