can a 600E ROM drive fit a R31??? can some one please help!

[Laptop_wizard]

Hey guy's.
I have a Thinkpad R31 P3 113GHz 512 cache.
Is there a faster CPU that has a fast clock speed, with the same level of cache. what is the fastest I can get it to run.

Also, can a Thinkpad 600E CD-ROM drive fit a R31 ?

[Laptop_wizard]

Can anyone lend support.

[a31pguy]

OK - no one else stepped up.

The 600E uses an ultraslim bay. The R31 uses an ultrabay plus bay. There is no adapter for it and it will not work.

The R31 will take the following stock CPUs:

Intel Mobile Celeron 1.06, 1.13 or 1.2 GHz
Intel Mobile Pentium III-M 1.0 or 1.13 GHz

The fastest PIII-M you can get is 1333 mhz or (1.3 Ghz). Not much of a speed improvement if you ask me. The Celeron has a faster clock - but an inferior CPU (well in my opinion).

Those are the digs - wiz - hope it helps!

[Laptop_wizard]

Hello. Thankyou for your help.

Hmmm that sucks that the 600E drive will not fit.

What is the The R31 BUS speed? what Kind of ram do I kneed.

[a31pguy]

The R31 uses a Intel 830 MG chipset.

From intels document on the 830 MG chipset:

The Intel 830 chipset introduces a number of other performance enhancing features into the mobile PC segment:
• Intel® Hub Architecture provides a point-to-point interconnect for better I/O performance and improved
concurrency with peripherals including IDE, audio, modem, and LAN devices.
• 133-MHz SDRAM provides 33 percent faster CPU access.
• 1 Gbyte of SDRAM memory doubles the amount of memory support.
• The new performance-optimized memory controller reduces memory latency by about 25 percent.

The new 0.13-micron process enables Intel to deliver processors up to 1.13 GHz at launch. The Mobile Intel Pentium III
Processor-M includes other features that increase the performance of mobile PCs. These enhancements include doubling
the capacity of the on-die L2 cache from 256 Kbytes to 512 Kbytes, enhanced data pre-fetch logic to pre-load data into
the cache, and the introduction of 133-MHz FSB, a 33 percent speed increase for faster data movement.

http://www.intel.com/technology/magazin ... o08011.pdf

[Laptop_wizard]

Hey, and thanks allot for your reply.
All helpful information.
I saw some one selling a R31 CPU at 1.7GHz for $500.00

Do they even get that fast?

[a31pguy]

Warning Fake! Part number 26P8155 is a 1.066GHZ CELERON. Not a 1.7 Ghz Celeron. Seems like that they can't round correctly!

[wa8yxm]

Hello. Thankyou for your help.

Hmmm that sucks that the 600E drive will not fit.

Actually, The drive, itself will fit, it's the drive adapter that does not fit

If you have a deffective R-31 drive you can transfer the rails from it to the drive from the 600E The only differnece in the drives themselves is the front benzel, the 600E's is shaped differently and may not look all that good.

I had an after market CD-CDR-CDRW-DVD drive in my 600E. I just transfered it to the R-31, and transfered the r-31's CD-CDR/RW drive to the 600E it was a 12 screw job

2 on each side of each drive

2 (the outer two) on the back of the drive

Remove rails from both drives, transfer to the other drive, and re-install

The rails on the R-31 are two plastic strips plus the connector on the back of the unit. The rails on the 600E are the same plus a piece of plastic with a 'HOOK" on it that latches the drive in place, this is all one assembly, do not break it' it is easily broken when removing, replacing or off the drive

and of course the back adapter piece

NOTE VERY Small screws you will need like a zero or double zero phillips driver

[a31pguy]

sorry - i didn't clarify. Yes - you could swap the drive between the trays - if you live without a bezel and the drive isn't too tall. Some people don't care - some do. I can't - looks very unprofessional on me / to me.

I think I saw one guy who made a bezel on his own - plastic, black paint, and a dremel tool....

[Laptop_wizard]

HMMM.
Thanks guys. I'll try that.
Thankyou all for your help.

[wa8yxm]

The drive I had in the 600 was a "Generic" (Toshiba in fact) which did not exactly match the original in regard to the benzel

It did, however, exactly match the r-31's original

So the problem is the 600's will stick out a bit if it's OEM

I don't know if you can dremel it down or not... I do have one you can expierment on if you are willing to pay postage (CD Rom ony)