Thanks for the reply, was surprised to hear it's only UDMA-33! Now I'm thinking I might go for a 5400RPM drive with 8Mb cache as they're A LOT cheaper per Gb. They're also likely to draw less power, generate less heat and less noise and maybe even last longer? I've so far gone through 3 drives in my...

I was planning on getting a new harddrive for my 600X but as I was looking at the speedier new 7200RPM drives I realised I had no clue whether the 600X could actually make use of the extra speed. I went to the IBM specs to find out and searched here in the forum but haven't been able to determine th...

I bought this machine as dead (£35) as it had the 1280x1024 13.7" screen (and 8Mb graphics card). The only thing I know was that the previous owner had tested it with a power supply known to be working only to find it dead. I suppose it is not impossible that that power supply was incorrect and actu...

What a nightmare the 770 is to open up compared to the 600 series! I have now removed 30 odd screws, 8 sub-assemblies (including the screen) and finally got to the DC-DC card. Thank god for the HMM, re-assembly would be tricky otherwise... Looking at the DC-DC card it has no less than 12 fuses (FU1-...

Is this a common fault on the 770 series?

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I have a completely dead 770X, no lights, no boot, nothing. Any clues what is the most liekly cause? Power supply is fine, works in other machines.

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Maybe not so stupid after all, it seems some people have been lucky with this type fo mod on MMC-2 PIIs!!!

http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopi ... t=45#29302

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Just realised how stupid my previous post is, of course a 400Mhz PII won't run at 600Mhz - that is way too much overclocking! Doh! Ah well... :oops: Lomax Edit: Just found the MMC-2 datasheet which contains pin assignments and other in-depth info about the MMC-2 processors. PII: ftp://download.intel...

Hi all, Just found this (rather old) article on Tom's Hardware which talks about a simple way to change the FSB on PII processors in 440BX motherboards. Got interested as both the 770X/Z have 440BX chipset. Unfortunately the article only refers to Slot-1 PIIs but I assume what they're saying is vali...

After some more research I'm considering buying a Matrox G450 PCI. After all, Matrox cards are renowned for their stability and compatibility. Any thoughts?

http://www.kvmsystems.co.uk/kvm/store/c ... d=&m_id=14

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Just thought the group might want to know that someone (not me) is flogging a whole bunch (40+) of Selectadock IIIs on eBay UK. I bought one for £6 +postage and was surprised to find it was a brand new, unopened and still boxed unit! Here's the link: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IBM-SELECTADOCK-3-part-code...

Hi everyone, Just wanted to pick your brains on this, I'm considering replacing the internal modem in my 600X with a WiFi card but I'm not sure which model/manufacturer would be the best choice. Do I need to use an IBM one or does the machine support cards from other manufacturers as well? And what ...

I'm afraid you will need to read the sticky at the top of the forum about replacing the CCFL lamp in your LCD panel.

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Thanks for the info whizkid, I take it it would be impossible to increase the memory bandwidth? On another note, I have managed to get TV out to work but only after forcing an install of the IBM drivers (v5.39) in stead of the autodetected Windows 2000 drivers. I did this by locating all .inf files ...

If I understand things corretly you need 4Mb of video RAM to get 1280x1024 with 64k colours but despite the 600x having 4Mb of video RAM it is not possible to run an external monitor at this resolution. When I try to change to 1280x1024 colour depth drops down to 256 colours. I know that the spec fo...

Haven't bought any yet but CMP Batteries (China) sell new batteries (own manufacture) for many different laptop models at very good prices on eBay. I have been in contact with them via email and both they and their products seem perfectly genuine. Oh, and the 600/E/X batteries are actually 4200mAh, ...

I have just successfully replaced the backlight in my 600X with a LG LP133X5 LCD panel. The matching tube from lcdpart was MS20205 (not MS20275 as stated on their website). Upon opening the panel to perform the replacement I discovered that the failed backlight probably wasn't caused by a faulty tub...