I have 2 laptops. One, x41 IBM is old enough to have its screen suffer from the lamp degradation. Another one is IBM x61 wich screen recently has been cracked a bit. Across, to be specific. Both have the screen dimention in common, so our schedule today are:

  1. replace screen on x61
  2. extract the lamp, which is still pretty bright from the broken screen
  3. replace the old lamp from the screen of x41 with that one from x61.

I didn’t want to replace the whole screen of x41 because a) I am quite a stingy person,  b) I like to pretend that I am here to save the world (in this particular case by limiting wastage) and c) why on earth I have to buy a new screen anyway if the only thing I need is a lamp? (And, logically, why the hell I have to buy a new lamp, which is sure quite inexpensive, when I have a decent lamp in the broken screen?) I can’t figure out which of the arguments was most important to me.

So, first the screen has been ordered on ebay: it is easy to find one for almost any contemporary laptop. It took 1 week to get it to Cyprus. Now we have excellent instructions here and here. So, if you have decent hammer and saw, you are done. Almost.

I decided to make further notes on the photos I took during the work (here).

After replacement of the lamp two noticable bright spots appeared at the bottom of the screen, where the lamp resides. I’ll try to fix it a bit later, since it annoys me very little.