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yea, so I just went for it and it worked. Top will be about 1.5" but ill get over it. these speakers are SO loud.

Yeah. The invertor is encased in this metal box which is gonna up th thickness........again. I'm up to like 6 inches (kidding). But the case is engraved 120v input 9v output. Can I wire the 120v end to the ac jack on the monitor?

So its got this metal box looking invertor with a 9v output

Thanks collin. Once again, I'm at work and can't look at the speakers. They're Logitech S-120 PC Speakers.

Is it possible to not split the inverter board and run the lines from the brick into the laptop and leave the whole board intact? What are the pros and cons of this? Also, my screen has no speakers so I bought some stand alones. Assuming I can run lines to the inverter in the top, could I piggy back ...

nope. Doesn't even turn on now.

Great news!!! It stopped working!...........

Replaced the caps and it turned on once for 3 secs and it turned off.......forever. Getting nothing now. Reverted it to the old caps and nothing. Bricked inverter, if that's possible.

1) yeah. 10 gauge. Its what they used for the power supply in the engadget laptop.

2) Although I appreciate the kind words and help, my impatience for a solution forced me to........ do my own research :o

I found this happens to lots of LCDs due to an epic invertor board fail. The solution is to ...

So I swapped out the ide for some 10 gauge solid strand, and same thing. I know power is getting to it cause it turns on for a few seconds and i can still barely make out the display once the backlight turns off.

Could this be contributed to the wire size used to connect the split sides of the board? It needed 7 spots extended so I used ide cable.

Looks like I spoke too soon.

The video is showing up, but the backlight is still turrning off after about 5 seconds.

i had the lcd video connector plugged into the driver board backwards. I would appreciate it if everyone would point and laugh at me.

Ferd64

Sweet. Thanks

I've wired the screen in accordance with the engadget instructions. Its turning on and going to stand by. Would the difference in brand cause a different vga pinout?

What's the difference between the vga Monitor ID, DDC1, and DDC2 settings?