Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:47:50 -0500 From: "David Gillis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] XP on L100 at 266
Matthew... I thought I would weigh in here about overclocking the L100 to 266. I had a company called Portable Computer Enhancements to o'c my L100 to 266. Everything seemed to work at 266 except the Infrared port. So they suggested installing a switch that would allow me to switch between 200mhz and 266mhz. At 200mhz everything worked nicely, even the IR port. I used to use my L100 with a Canon BJC-80 IR printer and my Handspring Visor for synching with IR but not any more. Now that I use my L100 as my main machine I leave it clocked at 266 and docked with the Enhanced Port Replicator. In four years I've only had two thermal shutdowns. I keep a small desktop fan on my desk and it keeps enough air flowing over the L100. I currently have an Addonics pc card 24x CD-ROM, pc card floppy drive, 3Com combo network/modem pc card, and a USB HP 8200e CD-Writer Plus all connected at the same time with the Enhanced Port Replicator and no problems running at 266 with the fan blowing accross the L100. I've been running Win98SE w/64 mb and have been seriously thinking about upgrading to a 20gb hard drive and Windows XP. But things have run so well for so long, I'm a little chicken. :-) Hope this info helps. David T. Gillis ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew Hanson Sent: 3/14/2003 1:12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LIB] XP on L100 at 266 > 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 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives > > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. 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