LCD unit mounted inside its 5.25" drive bay holder:
Disassembled:
Rear view of the board with its connections. If my labeling is wrong, please let me know and I'll update the image:
Side view that barely shows the other layer of silicon-mounted components:
The default image on the GX upon power-on, but before its drivers load, is the GX logo. If yours has some pixel areas that are brighter than others, this is because of the stock contrast setting. Install the drivers, hook it up to USB, and run the configuration tool to set the contrast. Here's the logo:
A simple 2-bit image I created to test:
MO puts a protective plastic sheet in between the LCD unit and the 5.25" bay mount. Painted front:
The protective plastic has a layer of glue-like double-sided tape to make a seal around the LCD screen. I assume this helps keep dust from getting in between the LCD screen and the protective plastic. I don't like the idea of sticky tape, so I've put a layer of soft, foam, weather stripping in here. It can compress almost flat without getting in the way, so it allows me to keep the stock screws and plastic washers.
The 5.25" bay holder as compared in size to a standard DVD drive. This is a smaller size 5.25" optical drive, not the longer, old-school CD drives of the 90s:
