An idea has occured!

[spleenharvester]

It's a Sony VGN-TZ motherboard, with a C2D U7600 onboard.

Tiny little thing as you can tell, the RAM slot takes up quite a bit of it!

Found one being sold near me for £40.

How hard do y'all reckon it'd be for me to mod this thing into my Acer X223HQ to make it an all-in-one?

The monitor sits at the end of my bed and I'm always playing older games on a crappy old Dell X1 on it, so might be a nice upgrade

The HDD is a ZIF drive, I have a spare lying about.

Adapter requires 16v 4a, which may be difficult to pull from the X223HQ's PSU board.

The LVDS cable is dual-link and I imagine it's possible to mod it to the LCD's connector.

[DJduck]

Re: An idea has occured!

For the psu, your monitors one may not work, try a different one. Also, Are the usb and other ports on that board too? It may be possible, but it would have been easier to buy a mini itx or nano itx board.

[spleenharvester]

Re: An idea has occured!

I'm thinking of just getting the adapter for the same laptop, and wiring it in parallel with the screen's 230v in connector - serves the same function as using a kettle lead duplicator right?

Would be a bit difficult to incorporate but much less risky than fiddling with the monitor's PSU board.

A mini-itx or nano-itx board would be a lot more expensive and probably wouldn't fit these are rediculously small!

It has USB/VGA etc ports on ribbon cables so I could choose which to have.

I imagine the hardest part would be the LVDS cable. Ideally I'd want to remove the LCD's controller board and wire and LVDS cable together for the laptop's inbuilt display. The VGA connection on the X223HQ is poor at best, and I've had it running DVI and looking a lot better before.

EDIT: There's also one going for spares and repairs @ £6, a dead board. I'm wondering how hard it would be to repair such a small board.

EDIT2: Just bought the dead board. Checked the schematics and I have many of the power components available on other dead boards. TPS51120, TPS51124, TPS51116, SI-4835s, the lot.