Common 570 setups

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Cheesemanx · #1 Post by **Cheesemanx** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:04 am

Hey Guys and Gals

ED has just recieved a new little sister "Sara". She is a Thinkpad 570 model 2644-1AU. She has a 333 Mhz PII, 64 meg ram, a 12 gig HD, and the ultrabase.

I have been trying to plan a few upgrades for her. If you have any ideas let me know.

Thanks all.

Stargate199 · #2 Post by **Stargate199** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:04 pm

I would upgrade the RAM and Hard Drive and see if you can get it to run XP. 570's also had a PII 366MHz cpu, see if you can upgrade to that. For something really fun, find a working 570E with a bad display and swap the motherboard. Then you will have a 500Mhz PIII system.

pianowizard · #3 Post by **pianowizard** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:48 pm

Stargate199 wrote:I would upgrade the RAM and Hard Drive and see if you can get it to run XP.

Despite what the official documents say, you can actually put in a 256MB low-density PC100 module to bring the total memory to 320MB. With 333MHz PII and 320MB RAM, you can definitely run WinXP fairly well even with a 4200rpm HDD. If you upgrade to a faster HDD, that would be even better.

Cheesemanx · #4 Post by **Cheesemanx** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:52 am

I like the idea of uping the RAM I have already located a 256MB stick from a friend for $40. Will a DVD Rom and a margi card make it so when I am docked in the media slice I can watch DVDs on it?

Common 570 setups

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