Does anyone here do surface mount soldering or know anyone who does? I'm considering a memory upgrade for my TiVo. It comes with only 16 megs and adding another 16 involves adding two SMT chips and reconfiguring the device to use them. I'm told it can be done without special tools if you have a low-powered iron, tiny solder, liquid flux, etc, but the other prerequisites are sharp eyes (or good optics) and a steady hand. I lack these. ;)
Another option, apparently, is a new device that takes a PC133 512M DIMM and read-caches the entire database in RAM. That alone would probably be a decent speed boost, but it's a more expensive upgrade and would only affect the database. (For anyone wondering, I did attempt to find out and as far as I know, nobody has tried to overclock the 50MHz series 1 TiVo..) _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
