Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 09:05:39 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] L100 / Partitioning / Overlay / Win98 Install / Overclock /
At 08:55 AM 3/05/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 16:43:10 +0100 >From: Iain Cairns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: L100 / Partitioning / Overlay / Win98 Install / Overclock / > 12.5mm HD (!!!) > >Hi everyone > >SORRY this is all in one LONG post but I thought I'd never get round to >writing this stuff otherwise! If anyone replies, please quote paragraphs >SELECTIVELY or the daily digest is gonna read like War & Peace(!). Bah ... you wanna see a long post? Look up my 2 or 3 volumes on 'Experiences doing <blah> with a Libretto [50|100]' (no thats not the subject line itself but it might as well be ... hehe). >However, luckily for me, it turns out YOU CAN! You just need to take out a >mysterious credit card-sized slab of metal under the plastic film over the >HD space. This is probably a vitally important slab (for heat dissipation or >blocking radio inteference maybe?), but the Libby has worked okay without >it, so I'm assuming it's the Toshiba equivalent of a human appendix. Even >without the slab it's a tight squeeze, but the case will just about screw >shut again with the HD in place. I know the thermal management on the L100/110 is significantly more complex than that for the L50/70. Also note that the hard drive is a very good source of EM interference (noticed the audio output getting any noisier?) and a good source of heat. As it stands, after the hard drive in my libby has been running for about an hour (ghosting stuff), I take it out and its too hot to touch. Not only that, it STAYS too hot to hold for about a minute and a half ... AND MY LIBBY ISN'T EVEN OVERCLOCKED!. Granted, it was a warm day (about 28-30�C in the shade) but you do see what I'm getting at ... if you live in a warm climate (or if it gets warmer in summer than it is now) you'd want to watch it. Consider perhaps putting a thin copper shim where that plate used to be (better than nothing) and/or running a CPU idling program such as Rain 2.0 (I use it on my libretto and it seems to make a big difference to heat but minimal difference to performance) or any of the other such programs mentioned in the past on this list. >*NOTE*: Anyone doing this should be aware of possible damage to your onboard >memory chips, you must keep the cushioning pads in place which stop the HD >scraping/pressing on the motherboard - see fixup.net for details. Actually, the problem isn't so much rubbing against the chips (I assume you've left the plastic shield there), the problem is the pressure warping the motherboard. >- Installed Win98SE with great difficulty - I only have a USB external CD >(won't work in DOS?) and didn't have easy access to a desktop PC for popping >the laptop HD in with an adapter (I work in a Mac-based office). Eventually >did it by installing DOS IP drivers and FTP program (I have a Xircom PC card >combo LAN/modem), and logging onto a Mac FTP server to copy the Win98 CD >files over onto the Lib's HD, then installing from the HD. Ah ... where there is a will there is a way ;-) Having said that, I thought newer macs used IDE hard drives anyway. >- Then used PM to drag the D partition to the END of the extended partition, >meaning the unallocated 101 MB - my hibernation area - was now at the >BEGINNING (sectors 16,354,233 to 16,563,014), ie just after the 7985.4 MB C >partition recognised by the BIOS. (101MB hibernation space may be excessive >as I only have 64 MB RAM, but best not to take chances, eh?) The 37gig D >partition is now sector 16,563,078 and upwards. You can create a FAT32 drive that big? Hmm ... I recall having problems doing that just recently. Which version of PM were you using? >- Installed a few Lib drivers from the web, e.g. the widescreen video >driver, and I think maybe a one to control the Lib mouse-thingy. However, I >have refrained from putting too many of these extra Toshiba drivers on to my >Lib, unless something obviously is not working - if it ain't broke then >don't fix it. :) I have not for instance put on any special Tosh power >drivers - is this the fabled fuzzy light bulb? Does anyone have a clear >description of what all these drivers actually do and which ones are >useful/necessary? I find the fuzzy lightbulb useful because it lets you set 4 behaviour profiles (eg. how long to run the hard drive for, etc.) but not only that, each profile has 4 different states for battery state so you can have your power management behaviour change when, say, the battery gets to 50%. Its also a lot more convenient than the Windows power management thing. Just make sure you set the Windows power management to the 'Toshiba power management' first. Other must-have drivers include the IrDA driver and the audio driver. - 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? 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