Okay first off I'm new here and I hope to be able to help people out but I don't know how much I can promise with that, my knowledge is limited
Here's the deal, I just bought a new desktop and a new laptop this summer mainly because my old laptop (gateway) was losing the backlight on the screen. It only does it when you move the screen (which is hard to avoid in a laptop) so basically it is a small desktop. It is pretty old, it's got 3ghz celeron processor, 768mb RAM, and like 75gb hard drive so it isn't BAD it's just not new. It runs well, and when I keep it clean from crud stuff it runs smoothly which is nice. The problem is the screen.
I have talked with some people and i've been told it's either the wiring or some other thing that controls the whole lighting (lamp?). Though I personally believe it is the wiring and my reason for this is that you can get it so it works, but you gotta jiggle it around and stuff (if you had closed screen or something, I keep screen open 24/7 now).
This is my goal: I want to take the screen off and *if possible* (hence y im posting here) change those wires into a normal blue pin monitor plug and plug that into the back of laptop. Then I am going to find a decent suitcase or somethign that has a hard shell but not to thick and put the bottom in and screen on the lid of briefcase. Essentially this would keep it so I wouldn't be relying on stupid breaking hinges, my wiring problem would be fixed (I'd mount the laptop in their semi-permanently), and would be better int he fact that it won't break so easily. Also, i would raise the bottom of laptop up a bit and put a few fans in or a sort of cooling pad, and put some sort of holes (with vent guard) on bottom of case and on sides so as to let air flow considering this laptop has overheated before.
So, Is it possible to change laptop monitor wiring to the blue monitor plug???
Where can I find diagrams on this???
Yeah actually after I made this post I read that one. And that is the conclusion I reached, to extend the existing wires. I was wondering how hard this is and where I could find new wires to extgend with.
Gateway laptop screen 
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