Since my STBook is out for repairs, I pulled out my Stacy to get it ready for some projects where I will need portability. It has been sitting for quite awhile, and when I booted it up I noticed that the bottom of the screen is going out. If I “squeeze” the display in the area of the speaker, the screen will come back. My Stacy has always had a vertical line coming down from the top of the display about 1.5 inches long, so I have wanted to repair or replace the screen. I started doing a little research to see if a replacement LCD may be available, before I try to repair the existing display. I found the exact Epson part numbered display on eBay from a few sellers in China. I have ordered one of those from the seller who had the least negative feedback. I also ordered a display from a US supplier. That one was very inexpensive, and has the right size and specifications, but a different part number.
Once the new display with the correct part number arrives, I’ll start the project and take photos of everything. I know that the Stacy is difficult to disassemble, so I am going to take it very slowly and document everything in my blog.
I am very curious to see if I will actually receive a new, working Stacy display or not. Hopefully it will be nice and bright in comparison with the current display.
I will also be replacing clock battery, and should probably also upgrade the hard drive. It already has 4 MB of RAM installed. I’m not sure if I want to mess with the TOS version or not. It would be nice to have 2.06 installed if there are no issues with a Stacy. (Update) I just read that 2.06 needs a patch for the Shadow chip on the Stacy.