Replace/Upgrade T430 Display

[Ramblinwrek]

Does anyone know of an IPS replacement for the Lenovo T430?

I know I can buy a replacement screen from here, but I would like to have an IPS screen instead.

 

[rsutoratosu]

Best bet is ask here http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewforum.php?f=68&sid=930e186680ebf03249e30ab447244e1e

 

[wirednuts]

in the coming years, laptop displays are supposedly going to be driven by displayport internally... which means any screen from any laptop should work in any laptop.. this is what they were hoping for at least...

 

[Ramblinwrek]

Anyone that has access to a T440 IPS and a T430 want to try the transplant?

 

[corkyg]

Would not the display circuitry on the mobo also need to be replaced? If so, it could get complicated.

 

[alkemyst]

Be careful buying non-true Lenovo / IBM panels.

I got a replacement for my T60 and it only has the codes built in for the Native resolution and the EEPROM was not programmable It works fine unless I want to go into the BIOS and then it's like a little mini screen.

 

[Ramblinwrek]

Upon further inspection of the connections for a T440 display, it appears as though Lenovo changed the display connector on the mobo from 40-pin on a T430 to 30-pin on the T440.

So it's looking like a no go. Oh well, one can dream of nice displays.

 

[skankinstein]

You can find your 1080p (or more) panel here. I swap and upgrade them almost weekly here in the shop. Stick with AUO for matte and LG for gloss.

 

[holden j caufield]

You can find your 1080p (or more) panel here. I swap and upgrade them almost weekly here in the shop. Stick with AUO for matte and LG for gloss.

have you done a 1080p matte swap to a t420, t430 or a t430s?

 

[Darknite39]

have you done a 1080p matte swap to a t420, t430 or a t430s?

Inquiring minds want to know!

 

[chubbyfatazn]

T420/T430 and their -s variants have an LVDS connector. The only retrofit of a Haswell-gen Thinkpad screen that's gonna work out-of-the-box is to a T431s, which was the first to switch to an eDP connector.

If you have the requisite knowledge (stealing an eDP lane from the docking connector, creating a modded BIOS, making your own custom cable), then you could retrofit one to a SB-gen Thinkpad. Not sure about the other lines, but you'd run into the BIOS flashing issue with the X230.

I also wouldn't just nab any screen willy-nilly and plug it in and pray it works, at least not without looking at the pinouts. Seen too many cases of blown fuses (and thus effectively dead mobo until they're replaced) for me to recommend that. Even then you might have to flash the eeprom on the panel to get the system to recognise it.

I've accepted defeat when it comes to getting better panels for my T420, X220, and X230.

 

[Darknite39]

Yeah, I knew the T440 screens don't have the same connector, but I was holding out hope there was some other option I hadn't seen yet.

 

[holden j caufield]

T420/T430 and their -s variants have an LVDS connector. The only retrofit of a Haswell-gen Thinkpad screen that's gonna work out-of-the-box is to a T431s, which was the first to switch to an eDP connector.

If you have the requisite knowledge (stealing an eDP lane from the docking connector, creating a modded BIOS, making your own custom cable), then you could retrofit one to a SB-gen Thinkpad. Not sure about the other lines, but you'd run into the BIOS flashing issue with the X230.

I also wouldn't just nab any screen willy-nilly and plug it in and pray it works, at least not without looking at the pinouts. Seen too many cases of blown fuses (and thus effectively dead mobo until they're replaced) for me to recommend that. Even then you might have to flash the eeprom on the panel to get the system to recognise it.

I've accepted defeat when it comes to getting better panels for my T420, X220, and X230.

very informative, thanks. I too thought there no chance but hoping for that .001 chance that someone rigged a worked around.

 

[AlienHack]

an easy 3 mins upgrade here...

just check the difference with the alienwares screen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-09OiNv22c