Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Steve Stancliff
> First, the hard drive: the main reason I want to upgrade is to get > something faster. My HD is a 6G Hitachi that came with my Vivante > when I bought it almost two years ago. I find it to be very slow. > Can anyone recommend a faster drive, which is also relatively energy > efficient? 8 to 9

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-10 Thread Steve Stancliff
> First, the hard drive: the main reason I want to upgrade is to get > something faster. My HD is a 6G Hitachi that came with my Vivante > when I bought it almost two years ago. I find it to be very slow. > Can anyone recommend a faster drive, which is also relatively energy > efficient? 8 to

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 06 January 2001 06:47, Kamath wrote: > I checked the lap-top. the CPU is mounted on some kind of board, and then > the board is mounted on some kind of socket.. I am fairly new to hard-ware > manipulations as this, but have worked before on archaic intel 8085 8086 > chips > > and is

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 06 January 2001 06:47, Kamath wrote: > I checked the lap-top. the CPU is mounted on some kind of board, and then > the board is mounted on some kind of socket.. I am fairly new to hard-ware > manipulations as this, but have worked before on archaic intel 8085 8086 > chips > > and i

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-05 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0500, Kamath wrote: > and is this Athlon 150 Mhz 5x86 chip supported in Linux?? AMD, not Athlon. I have an old 133 MHz 5x86 that runs Linux without problems. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Instruments[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-05 Thread Kamath
I checked the lap-top. the CPU is mounted on some kind of board, and then the board is mounted on some kind of socket.. I am fairly new to hard-ware manipulations as this, but have worked before on archaic intel 8085 8086 chips and is this Athlon 150 Mhz 5x86 chip supported in Linux?? Thanks,

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-05 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0500, Kamath wrote: > and is this Athlon 150 Mhz 5x86 chip supported in Linux?? AMD, not Athlon. I have an old 133 MHz 5x86 that runs Linux without problems. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Instruments[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-05 Thread Kamath
I checked the lap-top. the CPU is mounted on some kind of board, and then the board is mounted on some kind of socket.. I am fairly new to hard-ware manipulations as this, but have worked before on archaic intel 8085 8086 chips and is this Athlon 150 Mhz 5x86 chip supported in Linux?? Thanks

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-05 Thread Heather
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On Friday 05 January 2001 08:50, Dan Christensen wrote: > > First, the hard drive: the main reason I want to upgrade is to get > > something faster. My HD is a 6G Hitachi that came with my Vivante > > when I bought it almost two years ago.

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Heather
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On Friday 05 January 2001 08:50, Dan Christensen wrote: > > First, the hard drive: the main reason I want to upgrade is to get > > something faster. My HD is a 6G Hitachi that came with my Vivante > > when I bought it almost two years ago

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 05 January 2001 14:25, Kamath wrote: > I think you are speaking something of what I am looking for here!! > I have been thinking seriously about upgrading my lap-top, which has > survived long... > I have a "toy" 486 lap-top (486 DX4 75 Mhz to be precise) And how can I > upgrade the proce

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Kamath
I think you are speaking something of what I am looking for here!! I have been thinking seriously about upgrading my lap-top, which has survived long... I have a "toy" 486 lap-top (486 DX4 75 Mhz to be precise) And how can I upgrade the processor etc on this please!! My laptop is a Compaq LTE Eli

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 05 January 2001 08:50, Dan Christensen wrote: > First, the hard drive: the main reason I want to upgrade is to get > something faster. My HD is a 6G Hitachi that came with my Vivante > when I bought it almost two years ago. I find it to be very slow. > Can anyone recommend a faster dri

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 05 January 2001 14:25, Kamath wrote: > I think you are speaking something of what I am looking for here!! > I have been thinking seriously about upgrading my lap-top, which has > survived long... > I have a "toy" 486 lap-top (486 DX4 75 Mhz to be precise) And how can I > upgrade the proc

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Kamath
I think you are speaking something of what I am looking for here!! I have been thinking seriously about upgrading my lap-top, which has survived long... I have a "toy" 486 lap-top (486 DX4 75 Mhz to be precise) And how can I upgrade the processor etc on this please!! My laptop is a Compaq LTE El

Re: advice on upgrading hard drive and cpu of laptop

2001-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 05 January 2001 08:50, Dan Christensen wrote: > First, the hard drive: the main reason I want to upgrade is to get > something faster. My HD is a 6G Hitachi that came with my Vivante > when I bought it almost two years ago. I find it to be very slow. > Can anyone recommend a faster dr