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Is there a web site that will give me a list of compatable LCD screens for my compaq r4000 laptop?

It is a compaq R4000 CTO notebook PC PN495AV. I need to replace the LCD screen from what I have read. It will come on and run fine but the screen will display nothing unless I open it multiple times. It will sometimes finaly display fine but most of the time it will have lines thru it. Also the screen will freeze sometimes and I will have to open and close it. It displays fine with a external monitor conected to it. I've already replaced the LCD invertor and the LCD cable. I am now looking for a LCD screen and need to find a list of compatable part numbers. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I already have removed the LCD screen when I painted my laptop Army Green. It was doing this before and just progresivly got worse.

Public Comments

1. The best thing to do would be to bring it to a reputable computer repair shop. Replacing an LCD on a laptop is not exactly for the faint of heart.
2. Email Compaq! With a laptop that i'm assuming is about 3 years old it'd be expensive to get sent off to repair and would probably be cheaper to buy a new one. Compatible parts would be hard to find as they are usually made specific for that model. Your best bet would be to find a second hand r4000 and canablise it. Or send it off to Compaq and get them to fix it, but that would take months and be very expensive.
3. Take the laptop apart as much as you have to to follow all connections to and from the monitor, make sure everything's well and good, that's connected, screwed in and secured properly. Look at the back of the actual LCD panel and then you should be able to look a bit broader as it will have the actual panel manufacturer and model, very rarely are the panels made by the people who put their logo on the laptop, lol.