Replacing a backlight in laptop

[keifir]

Hi,

i wish i had a digital camera to take pictures of this: the screen in my old lappy has gone bad - the lamp stopped working. This is normal, considering the lappy was made in 1997.

So i took the screen apart. This thing looks real neat inside . Ever wonder what the lcd looks like inside? well, at least i did .

Anyways, my questions:
- if anyone here lives in GTA, Ontario, Canada and knows where to dispose of the old computer equipment - plz let me know. The lamp has some mercury in it - so i want to do the right thing.

- another question: has anyone replaced the CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) before? Where would i get these things.

Yeah,.. and i ask these questions AFTER i took everything apart . I just couldn't wait:).

On related note, is it safe to run the lappy without the screen connected? then i could plug my desktop monitor into it to make a server out of this p166 lappy.

Thanx for reading,

keifir

[sethleon]

Have you already used google.com ?
Just to look for you new lamp!

So I did, just look, maybe you find what you search
http://www.google.com/search?q=CCFL&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=de&meta=
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Mess with the best, die like the rest.

[keifir]

yep. Thx, this is great.

I found a retailer of lamps: Digikey.

They have the lamp for 18CDN. Not bad.

I just wish the manufacturers would make it easier to get to the lamp - i took apart the entire screen to get to it. Good learning experience anyway .