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Hetti Plaiter

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So i have an Acer aspire one netbook and a packard bell one. Both same size (including screen size) Can i use the Packard bell screen to replace Acer's one??
 
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It's possible but unlikely. It depends on the manufacturer of the lcd panels in each netbook they could be the exact same panel or it could be two completely different panels. The problem is there is no standard to the connections they use for the panels so the cable that attaches the panel to the motherboard won't fit into a different panel but in some cases they do so there is not an exact answer. Take em both apart and check it out might get lucky and they are both the same panel and you can just switch cables.

andrewcarr

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I highly doubt so, and if you were qualified to do this repair yourself you probably would already know by taking apart each laptop and checking the screen dimensions as well as connection.

But as I said I highly doubt their interchangeable.
 

Nikolay Savov

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I guess NOT!
But if you like Disasseble them both.
Compare the LCD manifacturer brand and model
Compare the LCD cables on both
- LCD cable plug`s size
- LCD cable cuplung place on the back
- LCD cable cuplung size - pins on the laptop side
- both LCD mounting hinge brecket
- the mounting srews on the LCD - left and right side
LCD backlight cable ( for the inverter if it`s old LCD not LED )
- LCD backlight cable cuplung size and place on both LCD

Now you see why :)
Take the broken one to service !
 

jumpingeebus

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It's possible but unlikely. It depends on the manufacturer of the lcd panels in each netbook they could be the exact same panel or it could be two completely different panels. The problem is there is no standard to the connections they use for the panels so the cable that attaches the panel to the motherboard won't fit into a different panel but in some cases they do so there is not an exact answer. Take em both apart and check it out might get lucky and they are both the same panel and you can just switch cables.
 
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Hetti Plaiter

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Thank you :)
 
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