On Thursday 19 January 2017 06:02:08 Doug wrote: > On 01/19/2017 12:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Jimmy Johnson <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hi Martin, > >> > >> How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 2600 Series Laptop take? > > > > I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can > > only hold 512 MB maximum and I was able to contact a company that > > is shipping two 256 MB modules. One is the easy one, the little > > door in the bottom near the battery. The other is the fun one, > > called the factory configurable slot under the keyboard. > > > > Getting to this second slot is not terribly hard as it > > appears that the keyboard and touch pad panel will come off or > > at least raise up but there is one last hurdle which I am trying > > to jump without breaking something. > > > > The bottom edge of the screen exactly hides the last two > > screws. You can't move it to any position which will expose them. > > > > The hinges and screen work fine and I want to keep it > > that way but it looks like if one could temporarily take the > > hinges loose from the screen, it would probably move enough to > > take out the last two screws. > > > > I have been googling to find out if there is a way to > > temporarily take the screen out of the grasp of the hinges and am > > running in to the usual mechanized help syndrome of people who > > want to sell you services and tons of articles about the wrong > > models of Dell. > > > > I also know that one or both hinges probably also pass > > the screen's electrical cables so whatever one does to the hinges > > must be done with care to keep from cutting or damaging those > > flex cables. > > > > Otherwise, I'm mostly there. > > > > When I do get it upgraded, it should run Debian as I have > > gotten systems to run it on 384 MB without gnome. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. In a previous life, I repaired AV > > equipment in the eighties and the hinge problem is very similar > > to a few others I have dealt with in that there is probably a > > trick that makes all the difference between making things worse > > and fixing it. Those screws do have to come out. > > > > Martin McCormick > > For most Dell laptops, there is a service manual. See if there is one for > this model, and download it. The manual I used for my machine was > very useful--it specifies the exact series of procedures you need to run > to get at any particular module in the machine. Then you don't have to > guess and maybe break something.
The time I had to do something to a Dell laptop, I downloaded the service manual and it gave detailed and easy-to-follow instructions a) on how to dismantle it and b) equally good instructions for putting it together again. It was quite complicated, with all sorts of things layered. I would not have been able to guess, but it was really easy (if some of it fiddly) with the instructions. Lisi
