R40 BIOS hacking and upgrades

[Terrahawk]

Hi everyone,

I've mostly upgraded my R40 2723-26M to fairly reasonable specs, they being 1.7 GHz Banias Pentium-M, 60 GB 5400 RPM hard drive, IBM a/b/g Mini PCI II card and 512 MB RAM. Apart from more RAM (and a 7200 RPM hard drive), what's another cool thing I can pack into it to increase its feature set?

Also, does anyone know of anywhere that has done any BIOS hacking to enable Dothan CPU support for Pentium-M R40s? What I do know so far is that the Banias has a CPUID code of 0x695 and the Dothan has a CPUID code of 0x6D1 or thereabouts. I do have an uncompressed BIOS image for the R40 and I've viewed it with a hex editor and found 14 occurrences of 0x695. I don't know which one is in the CPU recognition table since I don't have a disassembler yet.

I've yet to finish adjusting the BIOS so I can use the IBM a/b/g Mini-PCI II card without the no-1802 hack but I'll get on to that soon.

Anyone have and awesome hints and tips?

[mmmkay]

You could get an ultrabay battery