Same old same old

not everything, but everything I can for now.

got 30/3 MB internet sometime today when the cable man decided to show. UD5H should net me pretty well. Next up is a nother 480, and a PSU with a case. But I really want to get a LCD now too.

I have pretty much settled for this month on the desktop and went forward with trying to find what I need for school, seeing as I can do everything I want on the desktop right now minus OC, as no voltage control. I can try 38*100 again ,as I have not tried that since the OS issues were sorted.

Ill take a look out for some T60s and see whats out there. If all else fails, I can get some batteries and a SSD and use what I have till i can find a really good laptop.
 
something like this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Lenovo-...ov05&hash=item2ebe983d69&_uhb=1#ht_721wt_1139

how would that do? I could pull the DDR2 from the D630 and use in it, so 2GB that memtested good.

But I would need more batteries.

Or, I could try and fix the D630, which should just need a heatsink.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitu...CPU_Fans_Heatsinks&hash=item1e6ef936f3&_uhb=1
or
http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-Dell-La...nks&hash=item2ebffa290c&_uhb=1#ht_4117wt_1037

or the M90 would just need a SSD and battery to work.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-9-cell-...ies&hash=item231f0af296&_uhb=1#ht_1910wt_1037

If I can keep cost down this month, I can use what I have for august and get something way better in september, yes?
 
okay. Last list and it needs to be good enough. If not, then start trimming parts.

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-9-Cell-...ies&hash=item27c68cf9f5&_uhb=1#ht_2460wt_1270
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128545
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121019
 
okay vista. Figured out more or less what I am going to do.

D630, while it is still running ever so hot, has its issue narrowed down to a exact point. I know the heatsink is damaged. I know that from personal inspection. So I need that. But running sfc /scannow resulted in corrupted files. So good enough, I know my 7 disk was causing the issue as it did the same dang thing on the desktop.
Anyway, so plan now goes as drop the M90 batteries, replace them with one of the ones below, and get a 30 or maybe 60 GB SSD and run 7 on it again, maybe XP if I go to the 30GB drive, as I want to keep BF2, MOH:AA, and Global Operations (old but ever so fine a game) on there, as well as word, and when I find one, the drivers to a prepaid wireless card.

so budget stays the same as above, except changing the hard drive to either http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233266 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227812

batteries dropped from above to http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-cell-BAT...t=Laptop_Batteries&hash=item41522a55ed&_uhb=1 or http://www.ebay.com/itm/NW-9-cell-B...t=Laptop_Batteries&hash=item20b9c3c0c6&_uhb=1
plan to have quite a few so I can run it as long as I can.

also need http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitu...LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb467eb1b&_uhb=1 to repair the overheating issue.

the following is planned, but depends on money.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-DELL-D6...p_Docking_Stations&hash=item5649dad2bd&_uhb=1
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Keyboard-Sk...eyboard_Protectors&hash=item1c1cd20071&_uhb=1

should be fine, yes?
 
OK I'd get the 120GB OCZ drive given the choice between that and the Nova. 120GB is enough space for an installation of Windows and several games.

The 3TB Seagate drive is a good choice and the speakers are decent.

As far as the batteries are concerned, generally you want the highest number of cells and the most mA possible, so if you can (and don't mind about the extra bulk and weight), I'd go for the 12 cell 8800mA battery. Would hold a good charge I reckon.

Yep, get that heatsink if it will sort out overheating issues, for 3 bucks, there's no reason not to.
 
vistakid10 said:
OK I'd get the 120GB OCZ drive given the choice between that and the Nova. 120GB is enough space for an installation of Windows and several games.
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Thats what I was thinking. The price difference is not that great either, so $/byte is less by quite a margin on the 120.

The 3TB Seagate drive is a good choice and the speakers are decent.
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That was the original plan. I can fix the laptop, or get the 3TB, so at this point I am going for the laptop. I have more or less enough space on my 1TB for a while as long as I pay attention to what I am loading on there.
As far as the batteries are concerned, generally you want the highest number of cells and the most mA possible, so if you can (and don't mind about the extra bulk and weight), I'd go for the 12 cell 8800mA battery. Would hold a good charge I reckon.
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okay, that clears up any misunderstand that I may have had. I don't mind the extra bulk with the battery. It will still be a heck of a lot more light than the M90. I swear they built the M90 out of plate steel or something thats hidden. I did not see it when I disassembled to clean it, but that don't mean it aint there.

Yep, get that heatsink if it will sort out overheating issues, for 3 bucks, there's no reason not to.
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I am hoping it will sort the issues with the heat. Im getting ready to dump windows and run crunchbang on it for a bit to see how much heat it is outputting exactly. If I can stop the crashing then it will be an execellent system once again.
 
If you don't mind about the bulk then yeah, go for the 12-cell 8800mAH battery. That's not the say the 9-cell 7800mAH wouldn't be enough though, that'd still be fine, but if it's the longest charge possible which you're after, common sense tells me the 12-cell 8800 is the one to go for. :)

If the cause of the random crashes are heat-related, then yep replacing the heatsink should definitely sort it.

So, we must've figured out by now almost what you want then?
 
I think so. working on it anyway, pretty much sorted for this month anyway.

I think the crashing is mainly from the OS corruption. I was going to test that with a linux distro, but I forgot about it today. :/. Ill figure it out though.

And I think i will get teh 12 cell. Should effectively double the life of a new 6 cell, yes?
 
Ive had a laptop overheat totally brick a installation of windows after 1 single overheat. The kicker was i was on the road at the time and was not going to be home in michigan for a week :(
 
Well, I am 99% sure that the corruption is from the windows disk as the install disk screwed up the desktop too. Working on it right now.
 
wolfeking said:
I am hoping it will sort the issues with the heat.
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As laptop repair experience, if you have often overheat issued. It can be fan control problem. If it is heatsink issued, you should see a broke fin, some melted metal and pipe become dark. I know dell has overheat problem since fan can be broke easy.

Also Vista windows often cause overheat CPU issue since it use a lot of CPU and RAM.
 
james, it has scratches on the face of the heatsink. I noticed that when I cleaned it and reseated with AS5. Don't worry about it. I will fix it and it will be fine.
 
okay. Should be the last list for this month.

As of now, downloading 10.04.3 to install to the D630. Already disabled multicore support in BIOS and enabled speedstep and all the other power save features there.

anyway, list.
Pay mum back. 130 more or less
School stuff. 130
UD5H 190
Speakers 27
Dock 40
Keyboard cover 3
Heatsink 6
Battery 2 of them 54
SSD 100

so If I added right that is $176 left over for whatever is needed or leave it put for later.
 
Sounds like you're getting somewhere now.

As for the question "will a 12-cell battery effectively hold double the charge of a 6-cell battery?", I'm not sure. I think it depends on the mAH more than the cells.
 
okay, cool enough. I can run more or less 90 ish minutes on one of my 6 cell batteries, so should be good on the 12 cell. All I have at school this semester is English, Help desk, PE, and band, so 90 mutes a day is fine, but band trips are quite long sometimes, so want to double the 90 minutes. should be great I rekon.

And yep, getting there slowly.
 
Well what you've got here
wolfeking's 'to buy' list said:
Pay mum back. 130 more or less
School stuff. 130
UD5H 190
Speakers 27
Dock 40
Keyboard cover 3
Heatsink 6
Battery 2 of them 54
SSD 100
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Seems fine to me. I'd say go ahead and order it all when you've got the money.

Getting two of those batteries is a good idea too.
 
!@#$ it! okay, the D630 installed ubuntu 10.04.3 just fine. Connected to the internet. Ran 1 core at 800 MHz just fine. Left it sitting on the ubuntu desktop for about 30 minutes and it completely crashed the video. Ill try it again and get a pic this time.

From the feel of it, the GPU is probably hitting north of 100*. Might have to go in and manually edit the vBIOS to get it permanently down to 250 or so to cool off.
 
wolfeking said:
james, it has scratches on the face of the heatsink. I noticed that when I cleaned it and reseated with AS5. Don't worry about it. I will fix it and it will be fine.
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I have never replace heatsink to make it better for laptop but it should help. Also do you see fan spin when you turn it on?
 
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