X140e IPS screen upgrade and refresh rate questions
Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 9:16 am
Have an X140e and noticed it's screen wasn't the best but what really irked me was that it was running 50hz on Windows, yet when I booted and installed a Linux distribution it recognized the screen as 60hz, any insight why the refresh rate is being read incorrectly on Windows? Have up to date graphics drivers and monitor edid installed but I'm not able to change it under refresh rate options. Now the main part, because of those issues I decided to see if there's a IPS screen that I could swap out and it turns out there is; LG LP116WH6-SLA1. Original screen is IVO M116NWR1 R3, I can get 3/4 screws into the holes into the display holder but the not screwed in corner of the screen is raised up by the metal chassis. The laptop boots fine with the new screen installed but still has the 50hz max on Windows yet 60hz on Linux, any ideas how to make the transplant go as smoothly as possible? Here's a gallery of the screen not fitting: https://imgur.com/a/xwSj02v
. It's not fitting because the new Panel I got is 280mm in length while the original was 278mm, another user pointed this out to me in a PM. Looks like the only other potentially compatible IPS panel is B116XAN03.0 or if you want to take a risk HSD116PHW1-C00, for the latter sellers on ebay say it's 30 pin LVDS while panelook says it's 40 pin (and doesn't list outline dimensions) which is what the laptop has. I don't use Windows anymore so the 50hz thing isn't a problem but I believe you can change the refresh rate with CRU or AMD's driver control panel.
