15.6" inch LCD or LED screen in a 16" inch Toshiba L505 or A505

For those of you who have confusions, here is a simple explanation. Your laptop screen, LCD or LED screen is built in two parts, one is the front glass panel, where the image is generated, the other is a backlight panel. These two are put together to make one screen. If you CCFL backlight is dead but your screen is good, you can still use a screen that has a good backlight but cracked screen, just take them apart and put together the ones that work. You can use almost any 15.4, 15.6, 16 or 17 inch screen to fix your broken/cracked/dead backlight screen with the same size one, or if your laptop allows enough room, you can fix a 16 or 17 inch screen with a smaller screen as described here. It is highly unlikely that a LED backlight dies for some reason, but if it does, you can swap it out aswell. Cheaper solution to keep your computer going.

However, you will not be able to put an LED screen in a laptop which has CCFL backlit screen, the connectors on the back of your display cable are different, you will need an LED to LCD converter cable from ebay, costs like 5 bux or something. And in case of toshiba laptops an additional part for the backlight to work properly. Then you can plug your display cable into the ebay cable into the LED screen. The newer LED screens are waaaaay cheaper than the CCFL backlit screens and its easier to just get them and plug them in than going the following route, which is harder but works.

Alrighty, so I received two of these units for almost next to nothing, cracked screens on both of them. one is an A505, the other L505 (pictures below.
On the L505. I used the screen only from an older Dell Inspiron 1545/pp41L. i.e. Took apart the 1545 screen, which had a bad CCFL backlight, but the screen was good.

I took apart the 16" screen on the toshiba L505-S5990, threw away the screen, keeping the backlight panel, and quite literally, pasted the 15.6" screen from the 1545 on top of the 16" toshiba backlight. It works. Just fine. There is a little bit of a border around the screen so the backlight shines through, i just put electric tape on that portion, looks factory fit, no issues. As long as the laptop works.









On the A505. I franken fitted a 15.4" screen from a Compaq F700, it worked fine but the screen cover bezel could not stay in place since the 15.4" screen is a little taller than the 15.6" screen which is snug fit in a 16" screen border. Then I took the whole LED 15.6" screen out of a PP41L / newer Inspiron 1545 and using Ebay LED-LCD converter cable with an extra part that Toshiba laptops require, frankenplanted a 15.6" LED screen inside the metal border of a 16" Toshiba A505.

You can dispose of the 16" screen, backlight panel, but keep the metal border/cage. Because that will allow you to bolt the border to the hinges, makes the screen much more sturdier. The 15.6" Screen fits quite well inside the 16" frame. All you have to do now, is bolt the 15.6" screen to the frame, either just double tape it to the lid or tape it to the hinge legs.

All sorts of 15.4 and 15.6 inch screens work inside a toshiba L505 or A505. I haven't yet found a screen that doesnt work properly inside these things. And since 16" screens are hard to find and expensive, this should fix your laptop for less than 50 bux if you're going the LED screen route, or almost for free if you're going the CCFL screen route. You dont have to take apart the LED screen but you will need the cable, CCFL backlight screens are easy to take apart and less hassle to put together.