Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:40:06 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] new life for L-50
At 03:25 PM 4/04/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 23:16:19 +0000 (US/Eastern) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: new life for L-50 > >A buddy of mine has a Libretto 50. He would like to use it more but >wants to see if he can inprove the performance. Can he install more >memory, larger drive and increase the processor speed? If so, how? The maximum memory on the L50 is 32 meg (original 16 meg plus another 16 meg). If he's only got 16 meg at the moment then an upgrade is possible (although those memory modules are very hard to get now). Larger hard drive is also quite possible ... you can put in any 8.5mm laptop hard drive (which go to at least 6.4 gig), you *should* also be able to install any 9.5mm hard drive (which, last I looked, go to about 30 gig or so). If you install one of these though you MUST remove the blue and clear spacers that sit under the black plastic sheet between the bottom of the hard drive compartment and the base of the laptop otherwise you'll put pressure on the motherboard and cause cracking. David's website at http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ has additional hard drive details. It would also be a good idea to check this archive as there are many tips, tricks and pitfalls involved in installing a larger hard drive and putting an operating system on it (since the libretto by itself only seems to recognize some 8 gig of the hard drives). As for processor, you can't really do an upgrade there (unless you happen to have a spare processor and an SMD rework station handy). You can however overclock it ... I've personally been able to get mine to 100MHz with only a slightly higher incidence of thermal shutdown (and living in Australia, it gets pretty hot round here). If you live on cooler climates you could probably go to 120MHz. In addition, if your friend's L50 is a later one, Toshiba actually used P120 chips (downclocked to P75) as they ran out so if thats the case you could probably go to 150MHz without too many problems. To find the actual speed, open it up, remove the heat shield and heat plate (the thick one above the processor) and *CAREFULLY* remove the black heat pad. The processor speed (amongst other info) is stamped on top of the processor. Again David's site at http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ has a lot of good info about taking the laptop apart and overclocking it. Of course, a new OS reinstall would probably be the easiest way of improving performance ... I've been able to get an unimproved (16 meg, 75MHz) L50 decoding MPEG movies in near realtime (over 10fps though) with a clean install of Win95OSR2 ... if thats all the performance he needs then it may not be worth the risk involved in performing the above upgrades. Hope this helps! - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 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 **************************************************************
