Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:30:28 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 100CT/110CT - Upgrade Advice Please
At 06:49 AM 18/05/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 06:48:54 -0700 >From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: 100CT/110CT - Upgrade Advice Please > >Would greatly appreciate some upgrading advice. > >Have spent some time looking at the list archives and the Adorable Libretto >website. Both great resources! > >Been hard to find specific answers to my questions. However, if I've missed >something in the archives or website, just let me know... > >Will have my 100CT's tomorrow... > >So need some upgrading/accessory advice please. > >Even if you just want to answer one or two of my questions that would really >help! > >Thanks for any input! Welcome to the miniature notebook lunatic fringe! :-D >Mark > > > >1. MOTHERBOARD > >Bought a used 110CT motherboard as I understand you can swap them out, >right? > >If someone needs a 100CT motherboard let me know... ;-) AFAIK they're the same but I've not seen both side by side so I don't know for sure. Note that there are at least two revisions of motherboard, even for the 100CT (the layout on the underside is very different - I've got some pictures of one version on my website at www.raybot.net and Xin Feng has another version at www.fixup.net in both cases follow the links that talk about adding PS/2 ports to the libretto). IIRC someone has managed to do it before (I'm pretty sure it's in the archives somewhere), I seem to distantly recall a dremel being necessary for part of it but I can't remember if that was because it didn't fit or if it was for something else (or if it's just my memory). >2. HARD DRIVES > >Since they have small capacity hard drives, would like to upgrade them. > >Will the recent high performance Hitachi TravelStar 7K60 - hard drive - 60 >GB - ATA-100 - 7200 RPM work in a 100CT? > >Anybody try one? Does it get too hot? > >If this doesn't work, what would be another good drive? I imagine anything 9.5mm should work (ie. any modern drive) ... I've got a 20 gig Fujitsu in mine. IMHO I'd choose a hard drive based on operating power output (loosely speaking, heat output), idle and running noise and power consumption. I find IBM (now Hitachi) hard drives tend to make an awful racket when seeking and an annoying whining sound when idling (at least the 20 gig in my Portege does), whilst by comparison my 20 gig Fujitsu is pretty darn quiet ... but then again these things are also model dependant so ideally try and check out the exact model or series you're looking for (or ask if anyone else has one of them!). >3. RAM > >Any advice on what type/manuf of RAM to buy to upgrade to 64 MB ? > >I assume this is the max right? 64MB is the max and good luck finding a reasonably priced module ... unfortunately the RAM module is specific to that particular Libretto (a RAM module for a 100CT will only work on a 100CT or 110CT). Your best bet might be eBay (or do a search for places selling them in the archives, I seem to recall it being mentioned in a prior post somewhere). >4. WIFI > >Any suggestions on what card to buy? Given the L1x0 has CardBus, pretty much anything that takes your fancy. If price is overall important, go for whatever is cheapest (which will probably have a Realtek or somethingorother chipset in it). If size is important, Sony make one with an antenna that bends 90� and sits up against the side of the notebook so overall it sticks out by maybe 3mm (incidentally, their PC IEEE802.11 card seems to be identical to their Aibo wireless LAN card which would explain the form factor ... to the extent that you can take an Aibo wireless LAN card, shove it into a PC, tell it to use Ornioco drivers and it'll work!). If compatibility is important and/or you want to use nice utilities like Kismet, your best bet would be something like the good ol' Orinoco Silver card. If you have a PDA and envisage using the card in both, try for an Intel or Realtek CompactFlash card with a CompactFlash to PCMCIA converter. If you have an old laptop which you might want to also use the card on, go for a PC Card one (as opposed to CardBus) such as the Orinoco Silver I mentioned earlier (or its variants - they've been branded by Skylan, Cabletron/Enterasys, Lucent (which originally made the Orinico card in the first place), and numerous others). The list (and criteria) go on! >5. OS > >The Lib's I bought come with Win95. Would like to go with something >newer.... > >Should I go with 98SE or Win2K? > >WinXP would run too slow at 233MHz?? I found Win2k to be faster in everyday use than 98SE (although it crawls with 32MB of RAM) and (apart from power management which some other people here have managed to get working) everything seems to work nicely. I've not tried XP but IIRC others have ... >6. Linux > >Would like to put on Linux too. > >Any distro's recommended? > >Most everything works with Linux? I had PCMCIA troubles with Red Hat 6.2 but I imagine those would have been fixed by now ... trawl the archives for XF86 config files and the like. Good luck! - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. 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