Yeah, I only need another 256MB stick, since it already has 256, and it maxes out at 512MB.
Yes, I've heard the Paul Oakenfold remix. I love the song soo much I won't forget it
I don't know when I'll be able to get an HD to test the thing out, since I don't have any except for the ones in my main comp ATM. I'm buying my older bro a b-day present here next week, so we'll see how things go.
I also just recently found out that the mobile PIII clock cycles down to 700MHz when on battery power and back up to 900MHz when plugged in. But using SpeedStep lets me control wether or not to let it run at 900 or 700.
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I opened the thing up to remove the heatsink and put some new thermal paste on it, as I was noticing it was getting REALLY hot when running off of battery power and only at 700MHz. When I removed the four heatsink screws that apply pressure, it was really hard to pull up on the heatsink. I kept trying and eventually came up, but pulled the CPU out of the ZIF socket along with it! I kept shaking the heatsink above my desk to see if the CPU would come off, but no luck. I tried to pull it off....still no luck. I finally gave up and ended up having to pry it apart with a small flat blade screwdriver.
When I did get it off, I noticed the original thermal pad was still on it. Now this was no longer thermal, it was as hard as plastic and wasn't brittle at all. I had to take a sharp exacto knife blade to it and very carefully remove it from the CPU material and the open die. I was able to remove it all from the die, but there's still some on the packaging, but it'll be fine.
Then I went to clean out the heatsink, as I noticed there wasn't much airflow, which was probably another part of the problem. I took some tweezers and pulled out two or three dog/cat hairballs from the fin "ducts" or "tunnels". After that, I cleaned both the heatsink and CPU off with some 91% isopropyl alcohol and applied some AS3 to the CPU die. Put it all back together and started it up.....Oh crap, blank screen!!!!!
Well at the time, I didn't know that the CPU socket was a ZIF socket, since the CPU came out with the heatsink, and I had just placed the CPU over the pin holes, thinking that the pressure of the heatsink (with the four screws down) pushed it into it. WRONG!!!! I did this twice, thinking I messed up the first time, nope. I examined the socket a bit and found a litttle flatblade screw thing that turned. This acted like the handel on a desktop ZIF socket, moving the top plastic piece so the pins can drop into place. I got it all back into place, and back together. This time with my fingers crossed and a prayer in my mind, I started it up one last time. Hooray! It still works!!!!
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I have one more question (sorry about the long post). Since this laptop uses an FCPGA2 CPU, does anyone here think it'd be possible to use an Intel P4 mini-FCPGA 2 CPU in it? I read somewhere about some guy who has a Gateway Solo 5300 as well and has a P4 1.3 or something in his. I can't get ahold of Gateway to find anything out, so this is my only source of reliahable info
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