CF-52 MK3 inverter & LCD motherboard connectors

I am looking to see if I can find any kind of diagram for the LCD cable and inverter cable connectors on the motherboard of a cf-52pgnbx2m. Purchase mine on eBay damaged and have fixed everything on it, but having issues with the back-light. Checked the fuses and all seem to be good via continuity test with digital multimeter set to OHMS. However when I checked the fuses I noticed a cable going to the LCD panel was not connected to anything on the motherboard, and followed the cable to the inverter PCB. So I need to find where the inverter cable is supposed to connect on the motherboard.

I know it should be easy to spot, but I can't find a connector that is close enough for it, and am beginning to wonder if a previous owner soldered the power connector for the inverter board from the motherboard.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Current upgrades for those that are interested are:
8GB DDR3 Mushkin 1066 dual channel
intel 7260ac
240GB Mushkin Enhanced Chronos
Windows 8.1 Pro
3 port express card 54 USB 3.0

Thanks in advance.

 

As far as I recall..The CF52P uses a led backlight so it's a driver and not an inverter..
Maybe it's the incorrect top half? Different mk's had different cabling and connectors..To add to the mix a WUGA LCD will not work on a motherboard from a WXGA unit.

 

Could be, the LCD has output, just no back light. I have already confirmed it is WXGA, and the LCD is brand new I just replaced it.

 

Here is the entire setup from a CF-52PGNBP1M

 

That would be why. Whomever sold the toughbook did put the wrong broken LCD into my toughbook, and put the CCFL cable in as well. Thanks! Glad I am not going nuts.

 

Let me look up a buyer who will sell you the entire top half for $79,I have bought a few of them.

Here you go,item #191456893853

 

Before you buy anything.....

post your FULL model number...
WE need to find out if you need a WUXGA or a WXGA....

 

Model Number:
CF-52PGNBX2M
Status:
DISCONTINUED
MSRP:
$1,729
Description: WinXP (Win7 COA), Intel Core i3-330M 2.13GHz, No vPro, 15.4" WXGA, 160GB, 2GB, Atheros WiFi b/g/n, Multi-drive, No Bluetooth, Lightweight Battery, Toughbook Preferred

It was hidden in the first reply.

 

Yep....I missed it..

 

That's an example of how you could screw up on ebay. They think that when it is the same model. They can actually swap each in every parts of it.

ohlip

 

I got the seller I listed to take photos of the connector for me when I bought and I see he put them up on ebay,the 2 I bought were in very nice condition.

 

@ohlip
I agree, but that is why I bought it as is, and put the effort to fix it and diagnosed each part and fixed it one at a time. At least now I can sell the upper LCD assembly as refurbished since all the boards and cables tested as working by continuity. This way I can break even by using the money I get for selling the refurbished upper.

@safn1949
Thanks for the recommendation. Do you know if the seller would purchase my upper CCFL LCD assembly?

 

I would be very surprised if he would. Why I say this is....because most eBay sellers that sell parts buy laptops cheap and strip them down and sell them piece by piece. That is how they make a living. My guess what you would want for your top he could buy a full CF-52 for.

 

If he won't that is OK, I have other places where I can sell it. I live in Madison Wisconsin, and there are tons of laptop repair shops that will probably purchase it at my full asking price.

 

heh ...
and then they will pass on the cost to those unfortunate button-pushers that can't even run a screw-chaser .

 

I hate to be a pedant but those pictures are of a MK2 not a MK3.
CAP

 

Its a mk3 that I changed the top half of the case,it was damaged and I had a nice mk2 top rolling around. I just noticed the stickers,oops!

 

No worries, I was just messin' with you.
CAP

 

Picking on the old man huh? Big meany.

 

I'm guessing that I'm the old man, July 23, 1944.
CAP

 

1956 here ... and really startin' to feel it .

 

Oh I hear you.....June 29 ,1958

 

The birth date doesn't always matter..
Open heart surgery for Valve replacement 14yrs ago and a stroke 4 months ago...

I FEEL it...

 

That is so true...we both have a long road ahead of us...

 

1955,golden years my rear end.....

 

did you ever see what it takes to put an engine back on the tracks once it is "on the ground" ?

thread re-railed .

 

It is an ancient and honored tradition to go way off topic on this forum. We used to keep the Mods hopping and scared the Bejeebus out of a few forum divers.
CAP

 

Interesting fact that is on topic...
CF52 mk3..
The WXGA units have a LED backlight
The WUXGA have a CCFL backlight.