[LIB] 70ct, dead battery
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:49:58 +0800 From: yahoo-address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 70ct, dead battery Hi everyone. I am guess I have a dead battery but thought I would check with you all. I have a Libretto 70ct, with a PA2452 battery in it. When the unit is turned off (with the power cable plugged in) the battery light is orange. It stays orange no matter how long I leave it. Now if I turn it on and boot to DOS the light changes to green. Which makes me think it is charged but when I pull out the power cord the 70ct just switches off. (is it the battery?) If I am right and it is the battery I am going to try and open it in the next few days and maybe replace the batteries. I have been reading some of the other threads on this. I am still trying to work out the best way to open it, but the consensus seems to be to use a long flat thing tool to pry it open, I hope? (let me know if I am wrong) Then of course, I will go shopping to see what sort of re-chargeable batteries I can find. Still not sure what is available (currently in Singapore) The biggest problem is that there are so many emails from people regarding batteries. It is hard to find the correct ones. Does anyone have a web page that describes opening this type of battery? Or does anyone have a web page that describes the best replacement batteries to use? Thanks, Mike. P.S. Thanks to Neil, for answering my previous email regarding a technical manual. That is one manual I will be keeping for a long while. __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] Overlay program wanted
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:07:26 -0500 From: David Nedved [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Overlay program wanted Hi All, I'm upgrading my HD to a 40 gb. I've got Win98 loaded and running on an 8gb partition, and I'm all ready to add the overlay and be able to access the remainder of the drive. I've used IBM Disk Manager before, but it has a horribly cryptic menu system. The only options that would seem to make sense, are to convert the drive to their proprietary format (what does that mean?) or to let it blow away my partition table and recreate it. I don't want either of these, I just want the overlay added to the boot record. I've tried making a boot floppy, and running fdisk /mbr from it, but that didn't seem to transfer the overlay to the hard drive. I've downloaded ezmaker.exe from Western Digital, but after going through all the hassle of making a diskette and booting from it, it refuses to run since my disk is a Toshiba brand, not a WD. Can anyone point me to a drive overlay that can be installed on a disk without re-partitioning it? I'm certainly willing to pay a fair price for it if that's what it takes... Thanks, David ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] HELP!!!! My 50ct can't boot up suddenly after overclock!!!!!
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:26:22 +0800 (CST) From: =?big5?q?tradelink=20tradelink?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP My 50ct can't boot up suddenly after overclock! I am now using IBM 6.4G harddisk Travelstar 6GN (model : DBCA-206480), it worked find until I overclocked my 50ct I cut the pin 15 of W48C54A chip last night and hope my 50ct will go up to 100MHz. My bad dream come. My 50ct can't boot up again no matter I :- 1) boot up with floppy and fdisk/mbr or 2) boot up with floppy, delete my FAT partitions (I used to boot from FAT partition), recreate them and format/s the boot partition again I can complete all above operation without any error, but my libretto just can't bootup again with hd. I can even see the complete content in partition after I boot up with floppy(of course, before I format my hd). It's strange that when I swap 6.4G hd with the original 810Mb toshiba hd, it works again. Is it due to the limitation of bios for handling large harddisk? (It should not be, since my hd works fine before I o/c) or due to overclock? Should I reconnect pin 15 to make it works again? Please help Alan from Hong Kong. _ ¤H®ð¥æ¤Í¼ö½u#9351 ¸Ü¡u¤Í¡v´N¦³ http://hk.yahoo.com/promotions/personals/9351 ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Overlay program wanted
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:36:31 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Overlay program wanted At 10:09 AM 18/11/2002 -0800, you wrote: Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:07:26 -0500 From: David Nedved [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Overlay program wanted Hi All, I'm upgrading my HD to a 40 gb. I've got Win98 loaded and running on an 8gb partition, and I'm all ready to add the overlay and be able to access the remainder of the drive. I've used IBM Disk Manager before, but it has a horribly cryptic menu system. The only options that would seem to make sense, are to convert the drive to their proprietary format (what does that mean?) or to let it blow away my partition table and recreate it. I'm using EZ-Bios 9.06W by Micro House International (it did ship for Western Digital but it doesn't seem to mind the Fujitsu I've got) and have had it work nicely on both my L50 and L100. Somewhere in the archives are 2 speals by me on how to get it all working with various setups (for instance I'm now using in with a 20 gig Fujitsu, triple booting Win98SE, Red Hat Linux 6.2 and Win2k, all accessing the hard drive through the overlay). I did run into a few pitfalls which you may like to avoid! Search for ezdrive.zip or ezdrv909.zip in the archives. Note that EZ-DRIVE distribution version 9.09W actually contains EZ-BIOS version 9.06W ... go figure ... hehe Just remember that once it's on there, any time you modify the partition table, you *must* have booted from the hard drive and loaded EZ-Bios. Forgetting to do this is a sure way of screwing up the partition tables as everything will be offset by 8KBytes. Also, whilst it *is* possible to install it and not destroy your current partitioning scheme, in my experience unless it's a stock standard partitioning scheme, it's better to install it and get it to blow everything away. Oh and remember to leave space for hibernation at between 1010 and 1040 cylinders! Hope this helps! - 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. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] 70ct, dead battery
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:36:54 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] 70ct, dead battery At 03:51 AM 18/11/2002 -0800, you wrote: Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:49:58 +0800 From: yahoo-address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 70ct, dead battery Hi everyone. I am guess I have a dead battery but thought I would check with you all. I have a Libretto 70ct, with a PA2452 battery in it. When the unit is turned off (with the power cable plugged in) the battery light is orange. It stays orange no matter how long I leave it. Now if I turn it on and boot to DOS the light changes to green. Which makes me think it is charged but when I pull out the power cord the 70ct just switches off. (is it the battery?) Do you have a voltmeter? I'd double check to make *really* sure it's the battery and not the charging circuit in the laptop. If you're good with electronics, the first thing I'd do is take the motherboard out and plug the battery pack in, plug the power in then use a voltmeter to check that the 10 or so volts across the battery jumps to 11-odd volts across the charging battery terminals (I don't know if the charging circuit actually tries to detect the battery before it applies the charging current). If you don't get this then either the board in the battery is dead (in which case replacing the cells won't do any good) or the charging circuit in the libby is dead (in which case very little you do on the battery side will help!). The manual is pretty alright in telling you how to disassemble it but make real sure you remember which screw went where! If I am right and it is the battery I am going to try and open it in the next few days and maybe replace the batteries. I have been reading some of the other threads on this. I am still trying to work out the best way to open it, but the consensus seems to be to use a long flat thing tool to pry it open, I hope? (let me know if I am wrong) I just used a flat screwdriver but be careful not to poke it too far in. The circuit board inside is the thickness of medium weight cardboard and you could easily destroy it by being too vigorous with the screwdriver around that side of the pack. For the same reason, try not to twist the pack *too* much. Then of course, I will go shopping to see what sort of re-chargeable batteries I can find. Still not sure what is available (currently in Singapore) Actually, your *best* source of batteries might well be surplus battery packs for other Toshiba laptops around that era ... any battery pack for a Portege should have suitable cells in it and may be had cheaply if you catch a warehouse clearing out odd stock (I got a Portege pack with 6 Sony 1.8AH cells for about $7USD in a warehouse clearout, which were just nice to replace those in a dead L100 extended pack). The biggest problem is that there are so many emails from people regarding batteries. It is hard to find the correct ones. Does anyone have a web page that describes opening this type of battery? Or does anyone have a web page that describes the best replacement batteries to use? Hehe ... that's always a problem on this list (not helped by the lack of threading) ... try adding 'panasonic' to the search term, I think they produced one of the cells which were found to be suitable (but that probably doesn't narrow things down if it was quoted too often). I'm not aware of a cell replacement page specifically for the Libretto packs ... - 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. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] HELP!!!! My 50ct can't boot up suddenly after
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:40:49 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP My 50ct can't boot up suddenly after overclock! At 03:27 PM 18/11/2002 -0800, you wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:26:22 +0800 (CST) From: =?big5?q?tradelink=20tradelink?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP My 50ct can't boot up suddenly after overclock! I am now using IBM 6.4G harddisk Travelstar 6GN (model : DBCA-206480), it worked find until I overclocked my 50ct Uh oh ... I cut the pin 15 of W48C54A chip last night and hope my 50ct will go up to 100MHz. My bad dream come. My 50ct can't boot up again no matter I :- 1) boot up with floppy and fdisk/mbr or 2) boot up with floppy, delete my FAT partitions (I used to boot from FAT partition), recreate them and format/s the boot partition again Yup ... and if you look in the archives, you'll realize that, of all hard drives, IBM seem to be the only one that has this problem unfortunately ... when you cut that pin to clock to 100MHz, you're raising the bus speed by 25%. Problem is you're also raising the speed of the IDE controller by that amount and it looks like the consensus is that the IBM drives are the only ones that don't like that ... probably it's fussy about rise and fall times or signal shape or something. So there are 2 options ... downclock (solder that pin back) or get yourself a nice new 40GB Fujitsu/Seagate/Toshiba/anything other than IBM! I was using a Fujitsu 20GB hard drive in my overclocked L50 and it seemed quite happy ... it's also quite happy in my L100 which is clocked from 166 to 233 (but I *think* that's a multiplier clock and not a bus frequency clock). Remember that you need a drive overlay to see beyond 1024 cylinders (about 8 gig). See my reply to David Nedved's post or search in the archives for ezdrv909.zip . Hope this helps! - 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. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Overclocked CPU stress testing?
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:15:34 + From: barnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Overclocked CPU stress testing? On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 1:51 am, you wrote: Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:52:21 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know of a good program that can be used to really stress-test the CPU (doesn't matter if it's Win98SE, Linux or 2k, got all 3 running!)? My usual test programs (Final Reality, 3DMark99/00/01/02, etc.) don't really want to run (FR recons the DX version is wrong, 3DMark99 and above need 3D accelerators and/or at least 4MB VRAM). Setiathome (setiathome.ssl.berkely.edu) will test the processor *most* thoroughly :) 100% utilisation if it can, with disc access every couple of seconds, usually. If you can crunch a couple of units withought a thermal shutdown - they'll probably take about a day each - you should be able to survive anything. Oh, and you might just be the one who finds the alien... Neil ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] HELP!!!! My 50ct can't boot up suddenly after overclock!!!!!
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:35:07 + From: barnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP My 50ct can't boot up suddenly after overclock! On Monday 18 Nov 2002 11:27 pm, you wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:26:22 +0800 (CST) From: =?big5?q?tradelink=20tradelink?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP My 50ct can't boot up suddenly after overclock! I am now using IBM 6.4G harddisk Travelstar 6GN (model : DBCA-206480), it worked find until I overclocked my 50ct I cut the pin 15 of W48C54A chip last night and hope my 50ct will go up to 100MHz. My bad dream come. My 50ct can't boot up again no matter I :- 1) boot up with floppy and fdisk/mbr or 2) boot up with floppy, delete my FAT partitions (I used to boot from FAT partition), recreate them and format/s the boot partition again I can complete all above operation without any error, but my libretto just can't bootup again with hd. I can even see the complete content in partition after I boot up with floppy(of course, before I format my hd). It's strange that when I swap 6.4G hd with the original 810Mb toshiba hd, it works again. Is it due to the limitation of bios for handling large harddisk? (It should not be, since my hd works fine before I o/c) or due to overclock? Should I reconnect pin 15 to make it works again? Please help This is odd...but something we've seen before with IBM disks. You may have to search the archives, but I've seen two cases (on my machines) where pin-15 overclocking didn't work. Occasionally, the disc interface chip won't work at the higher bus speed, so no boot - but yours boots with the original tosh disk, so it doesn't look like that. The other problem is that some IBM disks won't work at the higher speed. If you use the IBM test disk that sometimes comes with them, you'll find it reports something like 'faulty cable'. Here's the fix that worked for me: clock the bus speed down to 50 by reconnecting pin 15, then increase the multiplier on the processor. It's a bit more complex to get to - I think the instructions are on Xin's site - but that should give you 100MHz on the processor. It's not as fast on i/o bound applications (disk, memory access is still at the old speed) but compute bound apps benefit (mpg replay etc) Neil ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
