Something missing on my 19

[toughasnails]

So I picked up a 19 for $124.00 shipped from shoptohonor http://www.ebay.com/itm/320788480987?ss ... 1439.l2648 . They said it was DOA.

LAPTOP IS DOA DOES NOT TURN ON Top cover and Bottom pan have major scratches

Well I got it today and fired it up and all I got was a very bright white screen but I noticed that the hdd light was flashing telling me something was running so I hooked it up to a external screen...XP ALL LOADED....COOL kinda . Something is missing and I don't mean the doors or all the missing keys. Can you spot what is missing...I spent over an hour trying to load the drivers because I figured I had the wrong ones because I loaded W7 on it then it hit me...WHAT THE F@#$ Check out the picture OF MY CF-19

[Springfield]

No speaker on the display bezel => cf-18 display? Believe Teo got a hybrid like this working.

I had an eye on that one too. Let me know if you want to trade off the hd caddy, cuz I bought one from him without a caddy (I think, didn't arrive yet ....)

[toughasnails]

I have not had much time to work on it yet but my guess the video line is broke or something. I know the the screen is very bright just nothing on it . Have a keyboard somewhere around here just need a few covers and doors which I don't have.

[rusty503]

Since it is obvious that someone has been into the screen area, I would reopen it and check the wiring to the screen. It is possible that they did not hook everything back up. Kinda looks like a FrankenBook.

[toughasnails]

These ones might of been some special order because all the ones that they had were the same way. This weekend I will pull it apart and see whats going on. Now I just need to find my spare keyboard...it only has 8 missing keys

[SHEEPMAN!]

Is the video board separate from the mobo? Seems like it is. CF-18 bottom for a speaker??

As they say "it looked pretty good to me in the dark of the night from the back of a runaway mule".

Try running a linux live cd just for giggles.

I have a keyboard if you can't find yours.

Jeff

[teo]

Ok! I will answer what wrong with that. The screen is obvious from CF-18. It will work if you change the LCD harness from the oem cf-19 together with the TS pcb board if that is a ts model. Blair! If you are handy enough. You can rewire the connector that goes to the mbo. connector. The schematic is available on Rob's collection to download. Same thing if it is a digitizer model. I say they just placed the cf-18 panel completely without realizing that it will not work properly.

Also if you close the lid, I mean when you fold down the lcd, it will not match the hole below. Misalign to the lower base. What I do before is I've taken out the silver cover below to make it wider and it will snap in place with the lcd bezel.


teo

[toughasnails]

This seller had about 12 of them over 3 days on auction and this one was the only one that did not work. I have a 18 mk1 and 5 and will see if the guts look the same in the 19.

[toughasnails]

I just used the restore disk with no problems but when I start it the external screen comes on and I see the Panasonic splash screen the the windows xp screen then the blue setting up windows screen then the external screen turns off ?? Ok so I tried to install xp oem and the external screen will not come on at all but when I use the windows 7 home there is no problem at all. Also when I had the bottom off I found that the rear USB was unplugged. Will pull apart the screen tonight to see whats up with it.

[toughasnails]

Ok! I will answer what wrong with that. The screen is obvious from CF-18. It will work if you change the LCD harness from the oem cf-19 together with the TS pcb board if that is a ts model.
teo

I have not took the lid apart yet but will tonight but did find out that the touch screen works , was cleaning it up today when I noticed the pointer was moving, works great too. When I had the base off I noticed that the sound board was unhooked so now have sound...headphones.