Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:08:21 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: XP on L100 at 266
Hey Raymond,
Good to see you're back!
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks for the input. It does look like a great HDD from the specs. My 100 ran like a charm for 3-4 hours after clocking it up last night. But when I pushed the CPU to rip a CD with EAC, Exact Audio Copy, it went into thermal overload, and hibernated in about 5 minutes.
I find standing the laptop on it's left end with the keyboard flipped up works a charm when it's really slogging the CPU (mine is clocked to 233) as it lets cooling air directly past the heatsink and the region under the hard drive ... although I have had it go into thermal shutdown when ambient temp rises above 25ºC even doing this ...
Okay... I've been using the 100 with XP clocked at 266 for a little over a day and a half now, and I'm amazed that it hasn't had heat problems again. I guess EAC really pushed the CPU a lot harder than most of what I do on the system. Also, XP has CPU idling in the OS, and I wasn't using Amnhlt or any other CPU idling programs before I clocked up.
After it did shutdown that one time, I sat a fan beside the 100 and spent a couple of hours doing work on the systen with no problem. The next day I didn't turn the fan on, and had the 100 running the entire day. I worked on it for a good deal of the day in 75 - 80 degrees F. without it ever shutting down. But I haven't yet tried ripping a CD with EAC again. I'll definately turn the fan on for that one.
Bah ... that component is a zero-ohm resistor (ie. a wire link). They didn't use an actual wire link because it's easier to populate the board when all the components are the same size. Just flick it out with a hot soldering iron then use a little bit of wire to bridge the 3 pads as marked (it's probably easier to go between the right 2 pads rather than go around them, just put a little 'hump' in the wire so it doesn't short anything out).
My problem is dealing with things so small. How do you grab onto the 'resistor' to pull it out? I'm afraid I'm going to be so clumsy with the iron trying to heat and pull at the same time, that I'll risk damaging something either from heat or badly applied force.
P.S. Yes I am still here ... waaayyyyy behind in my list emails (I'm reading them in reverse order) but I am still here ... hehe
I hope you weren't saving the list posts until you had time to read them all! 8-0
Matt
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