I joined the WUXGA MBP group yesterday.
The screen took an eternity arriving from the US (USPS to the UK), and I was away last week when it did. Finally got around to installing it yesterday.
MBP was the 2.33 C2D 15.4", screen was the LP154WU1 bought from lumenlab (noetus, thanks for the heads up on that on your previous post), OS was leopard. Waiting for Vista to arrive, and will let you know how I get on with that.
The machine had recently gone in for repair, and i'd wiped it before handing it in. Therefore I did a fresh install of Leopard when I got the machine back, and awaited the LCD (essentially the machine was unused between the fresh OS install and changing the screen).
Followed both dismantling guides. Had the following issues:
1) Front of top cover didn't want to come off. Took alot of rocking back and forth, and then eventually had to pull pretty hard (thought I was going to snap something) to get it off.
2) The inverter, left fan cables pull up, not obvious from the guide or clip. At first I thought they slid out. The isight (the ones closest to the screen) or atleast I assume thats what it is, slides out.
3) My airport card had three wires, not two as the guide suggest. They were colour coded and the airport card had the connectors labelled with the colours of the cables. No big deal, just thought it may ease the worries of others, that despite the guide being wrong here, everything else still worked fine.
4) The back of the screen bezel was extremely hard to get of. Luckily I had some soft plastic spudgers things I use to open other devices, which I slid between the two parts of the bezel to prize it open.
5) My screen had 6 screws along the bottom, not seven as suggested here
http://www.screentekinc.com/lcd-removal-instructions_en,macbookpro,diagram1.shtml
6) The screen is glued to the bezel quite firmly. Takes some effort to prize it away. Because of point 5 above, I kept worrying I'd missed a screw and thats why the screen wouldn't come away at the bottom. After checking many times, I finally plucked up the courage to give it a good pull and it came away. (NOTE: My screen had recently been replaced under warranty, so it may have had fresh glue applied then, resulting in it being stuck much more firmly then on an older machine).
7) The glue which holds the screen to the bezel isn't as effective anymore. As a result the new screen doesn't sit as flush as the old one in some places. Could also be that the front bezel has slightly bent. Only slightly noticeable, if it bothers me I may open it up to correct this, but right now I'm of the opnion I noticed it purely because of the work i'd just done on the machine and probably won't after a while.
8) On boot up the screen stayed black. Reseated cables, used external monitor (cmd + F1 for mirror mode is helpfull with the external monitor, otherwise you get the extended desktop on the external monitor and can't do much), eventually got the initial grey screen, then black screen.
Detect displays didn't help. So tried the sleep method. Re-attached old screen, booted into leopard, put machine to sleep, attached new screen, woke machine from sleep mode, everything worked
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Hope this helps those doing this in the future.
My thanks to everyone who has paved the way for me. Thanks again to Noetus for your recap post which pointed me to an available screen and put everything in one place so I didn't have to search frantically through the thread when it didn't work at first.
I'll come back and update you on how the mod works with leopard.
Thanks
