Upgrading Display HD to FHD

Hi, I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 and would love to have a FHD screen but first I could use some advice on wheather it is actually possible and what to buy as apart from fitting it I have no clue.

These are the specs of my current screen:

Uncoated AOU Panel 15.6" HD LED Glare 1366x768

First question;
The Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 is not available to buy with a FHD screen, does this mean that there is no chance at all of being able to fit a FHD screen?

After having fit the FHD screen, should it all work straight away or would I need to change the bios or download some drivers?

When buying is there anything specific that you need to look out for? - like the connection or something?

For example: do you think this would fit:

AUO B156HW01 V.5 V5 LED 15.6" FHD LAPTOP SCREEN NEW LCD on eBay (end time 12-Jan-11 12:38:23 GMT)

Would greatly appreciate it if someone could give me a hand, thanks in advance.

 

For it to fit it must be the same dimensions and have the same ZIF connector. That's all I can really add.

 

should be same dimensions and connector.. see if you can find a proper full HD screen for it on some screen wesbites..

Panther214

 

No. You should be able to.

If it works it will work straight away.

You need to buy a screen that has the same connection. If it has LVDS then it might not be possible because you would need dual and your laptop might just have one. Unfortunately I can't really help you with this part very much. Your chances would improve a lot if you buy a screen made for another laptop of the same vintage and manufacturer though.

 

Pretty much all modern panels and laptops are dual LVDS.
The highest resolution I've heard of supported by single LVDS is WXGA.

Theres an easy way to tell. Take apart your screen casing assembly (since youre going to eventually anyway) and look at the cable, right where it meets the screen connector.
If it has more than around 20 wires leading to the connector, it is dual LVDS. single technically can be only 14, and dual is like 24 or something.
Of course, this method does in fact only determine whether or not the cable supports it, but as even integrated graphics support dual by their own specification this is usually the only possible limitation.

Side note, dual LVDS screens will probably work on single link with lower resolutions or with a scrambled image. So it isn't necessarily all or nothing as soon as you try it.

 

Is there a program similar to CPU-Z that will tell me all the information I need to know about my display?

 

A single link LVDS actually supports higher, 1440x1050 @ 60Hz. Any 1366x768 monitor is only going to need only a single link. However, my desktop motherboard has an LVDS output but only officially supports 1280x800, so I don't really know. For greater than that though it will have dual. But even if it is LVDS does not mean it uses the same connector, and not all screens are LVDS anyway.

 

If by display you specifically mean the screen only, Moninfo is pretty good. There are numerous other utilities that can give out about the same sort of info (HWiNFO, SiSandra, etc.), but most of those are more generalized to give information on your entire system.