Yesterday i got a present from the UPS man-- after unpacking all the boxes the following lay before me:
(1) AMD Turion ML-44 2.4GHz 1MB L2 35W (2) 1GB sticks of OCZ DDR400 (1) 7200RPM 100GB Hitachi HD and so began the dissassembly of my carbon fiber beauty. the dissassembly was fairly straightforward and i'll be posting pictures of the steps i followed shortly. reassambly went smoothly except for the RAM which was a bit longer than the stock stuff and requried the removal of the heatsink and filing of one of the bosses. after that reassembly went smoothly. i crossed my fingers the first time i fired the machine up-- no smoke came out, so that was a good thing! ;) i was stoked when she posted and the BIOS reported AMD ML-44 2400MHz! the memory looked good @ 2GB, but when i ran memtest86 it reported that it was only running at DDR318 (which i'd never heard of-- DDR333 yes, DDR318 no....) then i began a fresh install of nevada 40 (i haven't gotten around to download the 07/06 nevada yet ;( all was going smoothly until i ran frkit. now when the machine boots it complains that it can't find the correct powerstate for 2400MHz. (this will be the subject of another post). so all in all i'm pretty happy. the machine is much faster and it feels good because now i've got a customized machine to show off. ;) i'll get the pics up asap... This message posted from opensolaris.org
