Sager NP9261 / Clevo D901C Cracked LCD

My friend has a cracked LCD screen on his Sager NP9261 / Clevo D901C and since I am fixing it for him, I am wondering where I can buy a replacement LCD. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

 

find out the model (use Everest), and search for it (the panel goes for around $200 and up).

Or you can just contact a Clevo vendor/reseller to buy it through them.

Its usually a LG panel.

 

www.rjtech.com would be able to get the replacement part for you. They helped me refurbish an Alienware m7700 by getting me just about every random part I needed: a D900T OEM case, component covers, a screw set (as I had some stripped) and other parts you wouldn't think about it.

In fact, we ended up converting the M7700/D900T into a D900K by swapping out the motherboard. RJ Tech knew that all D900T/K parts were compatible with each other, and you could just swap out the motherboard and upgrade it. We did, and it worked great.

And they were fast, too.

 

For a new panel I say 500$ and up...

Clevo use LG Phillips panels, the LP171WU1 for WUXGA and the LP171WE2 for WSXGA+ Glossy.

Be careful and stay away from the LP171WU3 panel wich have a lower image quality than WU1.

New, and WUXGA panel can cost around 500/600$ and the WSXGA+ around 400/500$.

I'm waiting for the release of the LP171WU5 panel from LGPhillips to replace my LP171WE2. That panel is one of the first to have 16Million colors full 8bits vs 256K 6bits, 100 of color saturation vs 50, 8ms of reponse time grey to grey vs 25 black to black and dual lamp vs sigle.

 

Have you opened the case up yet? If so, you should be able to find the original manufacturer's part number on the back of the lcd display unit itself; for example, on my Sony VAIO, the lcd display is actually made by Toshiba, and has the part number LTD141EM1X on the backside of the panel. Clevo seems to be a little less "proprietary" than Sony, so you might be able to find a spec detail somewhere that lists the original part numbers for the components of the system; however, if you're going to do the replacement yourself, you might as well open up the case now and get the actual part number to use to order a replacement.

Once you have the part number, just google on the part number and you should find any number of different retailers/wholesalers who have the part for sale (both "refurbished" and new).

Inkjammer's suggestion that you try RJTech is a good one, as they deal a lot in barebones Clevos.

 

I can get a WXGA+ LCD around $200.

I have replaced them before on previous Clevo models.

 

WXGA+? I think he's looking for WUXGA.

 

oh... well WUXGA panel is around $300-400.
paying any more than that is just paying for mark-up.

I truly recommended on contacting the "big Clevo 3"... Eurocom is probably the most open about selling parts than the other 2.

 

I have had good luck finding LCD replacements on ebay. But, that was for thinkpad parts and they are a lot more plentiful then Clevo. But like others said, once you have the part number just google it. IF ebay has it, it will show up in the search. Just go with whoever is cheapest and make sure they will warranty it for you. You want someone who will be there if you have problems (dead pixels, DOA).

 

Clevo does not really have exclusive LCDs.

They use the same LCD panels that other ODM/OEMs use (like HP, Dell, etc..)

 

Hopefully Gophn is correct, and Clevo nice enough to actually put the name of the actual display unit manufacturer in the EDID info for the display that they put into BIOS/EEPROM.

However, if they did not, Everest will probably not be able to detect the actual manufacturer of the display unit - for example, I have an old Sony VAIO (the one-gerbil model ) that I know for a fact as a display unit manufactured by Toshiba (I know because I finally got tired of Sony's misdirection and opened the thing up); nonetheless, when I run Everest Home Edition, it reports my display as a "Sony notebook LCD" which, as I know for fact, is not true.

Since Clevo seems to be a much more "honest" manufacturer than Sony, there is every reason to hope that they put accurate mfr info into their EDID data; however, nothing beats actually checking the label on the back of the display unit.