Replacement LCD - LP154WP2 or B154PW04?

[joearts]

You need an N154C6-L01 or N154C6-L02 - reverse frame 1st gen LCD panel. Then the frame will line up properly.

LP154WP2-TLA1, LP154WP2-TLA2, LP154WP2-TLA3, LP154WP2-TLA4, LTN154BT02, B154PW04 V.0, B154PW04 V.6, B154PW04 V.7 are regular frame

N154C6-L01, N154C6-L02 are reverse frame.

If you look closely at the panel, you'll see that the metal frame is not even on both sides. On some machines, it is reversed, where the narrow portion is on the right side instead of the left side. Don't ask me why it's like this, but it is.

Hello l.a,

I install N154C6-L02 Rev.C2 on my Apple MacBook Pro "Core 2 Duo" 2.2 15" (SR) Mid/Late 2007, 2.2GHz - MA895LL - MacBookPro3,1 - A1226. But it didn't function! Any idea?

Thanks a lot

 

[lPHONE]

Did the screwdriver slip? Did dust fall off onto the board? Lint from your shirt? Did you tug at any cables?

Did your shirt brush on the board as you were removing screws and whatnot?

All these little things matter.

On the restocking fee, it's there because they can't sell it as new. This is why I sell the service, not the product, selling the product would be hell. It's worth little used. Would you have bought it used for over $140? Few will, and the restocking fee is there to reflect that no one wants used screens.

Also, the LP154WP2-TLA* and B154PW04 V.6 are not only compatible with each other, but also of equal quality. I kind of prefer the B154PW04. They are getting increasingly difficult to find. So if you want to pay a decent price to buy one, most will delegate to whatever is available. Be glad you didn't get sent one of the old Samsung pieces of crap.

That is ebay. buying one at a time at a fair price, it is very hard to avoid getting a complete knockoff altogether, at least they sent you an original model.

To fix the OS problem, hold apple S right as it turns on. Wait for the black boot screen to come up.

Type fsck -fy and let it run. You should be set to boot now.

As for the backlight, that's your adventure. A few hints:

a) The left side I/O board powers the inverter which powers the backlight. Look here for a problem. Messed up board traces, etc. A conductive pen helps with rewriting traces.

b) Sometimes the inverter dies. Buy a new one, it's $5.

c) Sometimes the board is loaded with pieces of grit, dust, and gunk. a lot of it you can't see. Running it through an ultrasonic cleaner with distilled water and an ammonia based cleaning agent lacking cations/anions(read: NOT AMMONIA, AMMONIA BASED) often fixes these issues.

If the old screen doesn't have a working backlight either, it is highly unlikely a new display panel is going to fix anything, since there's now a problem within the machine itself.

You wouldn't happen to be selling LCDs for $250 on eBay under the name of rossmann_supply, would you?

 

[l.a.rossmann]

Hello l.a,

I install N154C6-L02 Rev.C2 on my Apple MacBook Pro "Core 2 Duo" 2.2 15" (SR) Mid/Late 2007, 2.2GHz - MA895LL - MacBookPro3,1 - A1226. But it didn't function! Any idea?

Thanks a lot

Define didn't function.

a) lines?
b) shadows?
c) blank LCD?
d) all white, even when machine is not on?

It could be one of many problems. Sometimes the ground for the backlight is not flush on the PCB and it causes shadowing. sometimes the GPU is bad.

Often, the LCD is bad. These first generation LED backlit models have by far, the highest rate of defects of any model I've ever stocked.

 

[l.a.rossmann]

You wouldn't happen to be selling LCDs for $250 on eBay under the name of rossmann_supply, would you?

Yes, I sell at high markup on eBay. If one would like to avoid that, they can buy directly off my website. In addition to eBay fees, I have found out the average person who won't Google a little to save $50 is typically in line with someone who will have a GPU issue and claim the screen they bought from me is bad. So, I do levy on consumers, an "eBay tax", to account for the extra frustration & high fees I pay to be an eBay seller, and for the higher rate of RMAs I have for this product on eBay where I pay shipping 3 ways on parts that I have to sell at a loss as used.

I have that LCD at $214.99 + shipping on the site now, the price goes down for quantity purchasers and regular customers. Also, coupon codes get sprinkled throughout this forum.

This LCD is difficult to find new, and is also near completely unavailable in any condition - new or factory reject, so its price reflects that, from almost every vendor. I understand that the price most pay for this is insane, and well, so's mine.