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im tryin to find out if my cpu can be upgraded in my compaq Evo N115 laptop, it currently has a 1.2 ghz duron, 128 megs of ram, dunno if its 100 or 133, 20 gig hard drive, 13 inch lcd, cd rom.
does anyone know of any direct resources for info? i googled a bit with no luck. i would also like to replace the cd rom drive but dunno if it has to be a specific drive or what. and does anyone know of any hard drives that have a low power consumption? i took out the modem card thing in an attempt to slightly drop the power sonsumption, i tihnk my battery is prolly shot. would i be able to remove the floppy drive to save a little? how would it react, anyone know?
and would anyone know what to use to overclock the S3 video? i dont thik ill be able to mess with ram clocks as it seems to be shared wit hsystem :-( but maybe a little more core could help in halflife.
BTW this is my first real laptop.. only other was a compaq 386 with 8 megs ram and a 200 meg hard drive that weighed almost as my full size antec full of stuff
Edits: Putting all of my follow ups in here to save space
followup 1:its been charging for a fll night, and im aout to unplug it and see how long it lasts.. i know it goes down like 5 times as fast as it charges, but ive only taken it to about 70%
for my own note i unplugged it at 3:05
followup 2:
as of 4:08 it said 1 % and o minutes left till 4:35, when it wnet to 0 and started beeping (jsut as i opened counterstrike) its currently 4:38 and its still goin , gonna take it till it crashes then post yet again
followup 3:time of death was 5:03. just after i insalled MBM, went to openm it and it went. it dont wanna power back on rightaway, ill see what it does if i let it sit a few mins. so almost 2 hours of usable battery life, with an hour of that being at or below 1% according to it, and was loaded with counterstrike most of that last hour.
followup 4: argh. when it died it took out a few system files with it. repairing the installation right now, and hopefully i wont have to format completely. when i took out the battery it was quite toasty warm, and when i pushed the buton on it it lit up the 25.
does anyone know of any direct resources for info? i googled a bit with no luck. i would also like to replace the cd rom drive but dunno if it has to be a specific drive or what. and does anyone know of any hard drives that have a low power consumption? i took out the modem card thing in an attempt to slightly drop the power sonsumption, i tihnk my battery is prolly shot. would i be able to remove the floppy drive to save a little? how would it react, anyone know?
and would anyone know what to use to overclock the S3 video? i dont thik ill be able to mess with ram clocks as it seems to be shared wit hsystem :-( but maybe a little more core could help in halflife.
BTW this is my first real laptop.. only other was a compaq 386 with 8 megs ram and a 200 meg hard drive that weighed almost as my full size antec full of stuff
Edits: Putting all of my follow ups in here to save space
followup 1:its been charging for a fll night, and im aout to unplug it and see how long it lasts.. i know it goes down like 5 times as fast as it charges, but ive only taken it to about 70%
for my own note i unplugged it at 3:05
followup 2:
as of 4:08 it said 1 % and o minutes left till 4:35, when it wnet to 0 and started beeping (jsut as i opened counterstrike) its currently 4:38 and its still goin , gonna take it till it crashes then post yet again
followup 3:time of death was 5:03. just after i insalled MBM, went to openm it and it went. it dont wanna power back on rightaway, ill see what it does if i let it sit a few mins. so almost 2 hours of usable battery life, with an hour of that being at or below 1% according to it, and was loaded with counterstrike most of that last hour.
followup 4: argh. when it died it took out a few system files with it. repairing the installation right now, and hopefully i wont have to format completely. when i took out the battery it was quite toasty warm, and when i pushed the buton on it it lit up the 25.
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