Re: [LIB] XP on L100 at 266

[Raymond]

Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:28:22 +1100
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] XP on L100 at 266
At 11:04 AM 14/03/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:59:23 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] XP on L100 at 266
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'd add to that, if you're doing anything intensive (encoding stuff, 
rendering stuff, compiling stuff, etc.) flip the libby on it's left
end and flip the keyboard up (so it looks like a back-to-front F from 
above with the screen forming the top bar and the keyboard the middle 
one). That way you get air flowing easily past both the hard drive and 
the heat plate by convection.
You're picking up the thin plastic strip that holds the keyboard down, and 
then pivoting the keyboard up?  Wow... that's pretty extreme.
Yup ... nice how the L100/110 keyboard isn't screwed in unlike the L50/70 
... it sits quite nicely (the left edge of the keyboard does sit a little 
off the desk and does strain the connector a little, I just put that 
plastic strip under the left edge of the keyboard at that point, levelling 
it out nicely). Now, in ambient temperatures where the thing would shutdown 
after 5 minutes (like the uninsulated upstairs room of a unit with no air 
conditioning in the middle of an Australian summer), it's able to run for 
several hours doing the same thing. Of course it does make typing 
interesting ... heh


No airconditioning?
Surprising yes? Not everywhere here has air conditioning and every now and 
again even the places that have it often either don't have enough or the 
air conditioning plant has broken down for whatever reason ...


If this big fan does the job uner heavy CPU load, I just might go out and 
try to find a smaller desktop fan to do the job.
I'd just get a decent 12 volt computer cooling fan ... you could even try 
bringing out a 10 volt line from the libby to run it (most of those fans 
will run on 9-10 volts) :-D


That component is a 0-ohm resistor, just flick it out with a soldering iron
Don't the leads go down into the circuit board? I haven't done much of 
this kind of work since back when components were mauch larger.
Nah its surface mount ... the pads you see either side of it are all there 
is holding it in. Just lay the iron over it and lift it off (wiggle it to 
one side perhaps to loosen it).


then link the 3 pads with a short bit of wire (I used a strand out of a 
piece of multistrand hookup wire). I do notice that David's diagram 
(which I used to find out how to clock my L100) differs somewhat from the 
one >at fixup.net ... I can see how both could work though (presumably 
Xin's method relies on some internal pull-up resistor to deal with the 
middle contact whereas David's one pulls it up explicitly) ...
Okay... I'll check this if I find I want to try clocking down.  Thought 
that conductive pen really spoiled me.
Conductive pen is nice but it just isn't the same ... for instance getting 
rid of it will make the board rather messy ...


I'm currently running Win2k and except when the pagefile is resizing 
itself, it runs quite nicely. I >keep Eudora, Mozilla (which is in itself 
a hog), mIRC, ICQ, Maple, a few IE windows and perhaps an
Excel or Word window open and only then does it start slogging but is
still quite useable (at this >point the pagefile is about 150 meg or so). 
I can even do basic 3D modelling (Moray/POVRay) >without tearing my hair 
out! :-D
Well, I've totally blown away by how snappy XP runs on this L100!  I could 
use a few other adjectives like, 'amazed, 'thrilled', 'dumbfounded', etc.!
I took drCursors advice and when into System Properties, and just shut 
down all of the graphics enhancements, and that sped things up substantially.
The occasional sounds will also be going when I get to it.
That or run Win2k ;-)


I wonder if you're still reading the list.  (Actually I'm wondering if 
the majority of the Librettoratti have jumped ship at this point.)

Heck no ... I'm too busy bailing water out!
Aacccckkkk...  I hope this doesn't portend a 'perfect storm'.... 8-0
Hehe ... nah, more the waves of work that seem to keep swamping me just as 
I recon I've got my head above water ... of course I seem to bring it on 
myself (too eager to say "Oh I'll do that!" ... one of the dangers of 
liking one's work I guess) but I guess it's all pretty good fun all the 
same ...

- Raymond

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