G40 upgrade experience and compare with A31.

[TRON2010]

Hi everybody,

After mi bad experience with mi G40 buy in ebay, I try to make this machine run. The most difficult task I think theey will be the processor, BUT theey was the hdd upgrade that I lost mi 7200RPM Seagate disk in that procedure. The problem I don´t know if was a specific failure of my machine or a failure in the dessing of the G40. After I broke two pins of my 7200 hdd, I buy a 160HDD 5400RPM sansung at $60 moreless. I dissasembly the palmrest and put the hdd in with care. Now it works.

Also I changed the 2.0Ghz Celeron by a Pentium 4 at 2.0GHz from a Desktop machine. The bus was at 400Mhz so it worked with no problem. At the beginnig i think the fans are broken, but not, it´s normal, I think that this is for the big heatsink that is designed to a P4 at 3GHz so with a P4 at 2.0Ghz with at 58 TDP they run cooler with not overheat.

Also I changed the RAM to a 1GB and the wifi with a TP-Link Draft 2.0 300MB (with the no1802 bios hack)

The machine runs quiet and noiseless. Not overheat. Mi P4 2.0GHz mobile was more noise becuase the fan are runnig al the time.

The wattage consumation was 35 wats in normal task (surfing internet, writting, listeng mp3 music..) At demanding task the jump at 65 watts and with rechanging batteries that hun until 90 watts. This is a big machine but the problem for move it is the AC power adapter that is to big. The performance it's not stellar, but its a very confortable desktop remplacement. If you type a lot i recomd this machine. but i suppose taht with more powerfoul CPU that will be a nose and hot machoine.

[jronald]

The A's were a Desk Top Replacement the G's were not. I personally prefer the the older technology. Yes its rough on batteries yes it runs hotter. it just seems to run faster also. of course different people look/like different things. My wire has an R40 and an A31. Both are 1.6 machines that she surfs and plays games on. 9 times out of 10 shes on the A31. I have/had several R40's and have given them all away except for hers. My machine of choice is the T30. It is near perfect in all respects and has identical performance to the A31 machines. I also have a X31 that I travel with, and a T30 uBuntu. If the A31 machine is too large try the T30. If thats still too large try the X31.
Your Mileage May Vary

Ron