BIOS Updates forum

Fje There are experts with far too much more knowledge than me on this forum so I hope they will answer some of your more difficult problems particularly the screen however here are a few basic observations: 1. Bios Hex Edit:The value in byte 20 is recommended to be changed as follows: TPs with orig...

Fje
Yes you are right. Also, you can run CPUz and actually see in its output all the details of the memory speeds as well, in addition to the CPU speed.

Fje I refer to your earlier post point 3: 3.- My 600E is a 2645-550, BIOS IHET47WW, so I presume it will not automaticaly go to 100MHz, so I feel I will have to do the "forcing 100MHz" hardware change, unsolding pin 25 of the clock generator and linking it to pin 48 with a 1K resistor. Right ? You a...

Fje If you look into some earlier posts in this topic you will find that there are posts pointing to Crucial's configurator advising memory for Thinkpad 600e that appears to be 8 chips total for both sides however the advice was that if Crucial guarantees it it would work because they know what they...

Fje
I am sure there may be lots and lots of sites selling MMC-2 processors with pictures, on ebay and elsewhere. You may want to put something like "ebay store + MMC-2" in google. There are suppliers there offering full pictures and even fixed price deals.

Fje As your Thinkpad 600e model appears to be one of the oldest, annouce date September 1998, please excercise extra care before assuming anything about bus speed support to 100MHz. Probably best to check the forum for posts from other users of this model who have been able to, or otherwise, make th...

Fje I will try to answer just your memory question in brief however as you have acknowledged it is best to read the entire thread as there are many cross connected issues while upgrading a Thinkpad's processor. 1. The type of memory that will work with a particular Thinkpad may depend on the origina...

Fje You need to make certain that the Mobile PIII processor that you are buying is a MMC-2 type packaging. This is reflected in the name of the processor which should be for example Intel Mobile Pentium III 800 MHz MMC-2 Processor. This processor comes on a what is called a CPU card which is a compl...

Found something that might have a bearing on the inability to get recent XP to speedup (non-Grub). Does this mean anything to you? (From Beatoem's post on page 46 of this thread): i finally sorted out speedswitch and xp issue,problem layed in microsoft os which could not defy the diff between deskt...

[quote="Since I am doing these upgrades with the Compaq machines, the Grub speedstep method did not work for me, even when I recompiled the thing to use the Armada's port number (0xF00), it just locked up. Also, it is not compatible with the Compaq bios setup partition, which must be primary. With a...

Gilf

Many many thanks for helping out in such detail. I appreciate you have done this despite that I should have gone to a Grub/Linux forum. Currently I have got CPUMSR working as a first step for L2 cache enabling and now want to implement Grub as the longer term, faster boot solution.

This is regarding Gilf's latest post on one of his TPs beginning to crash after many months of usage quite likely due to some memory module or memory slot problems that may have developed. Now, at the outset, my technical experience is probably nothing compared to what is clearly there on this forum...

For some of us 600e users our needs may be a bit basic, we may want to live with the 150MHz lower speed and we may only run Win XP for the usual applications. So no Linux support needed and no deepsleep utility needed. Just L2 cache enabling needed. From earlier messages by pikaia and others it seem...

Clarence: Your "E: Drive" in Windows is really not a drive, but the third partition on your first hard drive. You apparently called it hd(0,6) in Grub or in an unzipper program, which is wrong. Grub specifies partitions and drives in numbers, not letters, and uses a double number to consistently id...

Hi, That's right. I put the code in GRUB. The speedstep mod and the level 2 cache can be enabled before booting an operating system. Being a Linux user, I have not been satisfied with the existing solutions to enable the speedstep mod. The kernel module by wmarcusm is great but has one problem. Sin...