I have played with the idea of taking an old laptop that has bad motherboard etc but screen works fine and turn it into cheap diy desktop monitor.
I have played with the idea of taking an old laptop that has bad motherboard etc but screen works fine and turn it into cheap diy desktop monitor.
You will need to figure out what display driver your laptop uses and buy an appropriate display driver board in order to allow the use of standard video signals.
There's a few ideas for how to do this on Instructables.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Old-laptop-screen-into-Monitor/