LCD replacement compatibility: Gateway on a Compaq

I've a working Gateway LCD 14.1 WXGA LCD panel. I'm trying to sell it. Would it be compatible on a Compaq V3000 laptop? I know I would have to dissasemble the LCD panel from the LID, but I'm asking if there is a wide compatibility among panels and putting them on another laptops.

Thanks, this is urgent.

 

Diassembling a laptop screen and placing it on another laptop is not very recommended.

1) First, the screen sizes might not be exactly the same. Even if you have 2 screens that are say 14.1 inches, I'm not sure if the exact trimmings are there.

2) I think that a laptop screen is so critically important to the machine, you shouldn't meddle with it. I'd meddle with RAM yes, but not the display.

 

Unless trimmings vary from laptop to laptop (which I think is not the case) then changing the screen shouldn't present a problem provided you get a screen with the size that fits into your notebook.

 

Diassembling a laptop screen and placing it on another laptop is not very recommended.

1) First, the screen sizes might not be exactly the same. Even if you have 2 screens that are say 14.1 inches, I'm not sure if the exact trimmings are there.

2) I think that a laptop screen is so critically important to the machine, you shouldn't meddle with it. I'd meddle with RAM yes, but not the display.

 

But in theory the connectores are the same?

I've disassembled a V3000 laptop before and I'm unsure if the LCD video cable is the same.

Edit. Is not, the Gateway cable is smaller than the Compaq, I guess the swap is not compatible.

 

Thanx for the replies. I decided to swap a non working V3000 panel on a dv2000 HP laptop. Definitely Compaq is one of the WORST laptop makers ever. I still remember my first Compaq Presario 1685 suddenly died on me. Let's not forget those models that come with 512MB and Vista, what are they thinking.

 

Keep in mind that the video cable ends are usually welded onto the converter.
Having said that, the difference between video cables you noticed is possibly due to the graphic cards in laptops being different.
Even if they are made by the same manufacturer, the different types of cards could be using slightly different video cables ... but the LCD screens I think should be interchangeable as long as the size is correct.
You only need to make sure the Inverter and the back-light are usable components in the screen itself and weld the video cable ends to the inverter (I think it should be the inverter from what I saw in my own laptop).