Newbie- How do I tell which ultrabay I have in my R40?

[Jethro Bodean]

How can I tell what type of ultrabay I have in my R40 (2683/48U)?

Is there a source for capabilities for upgrades ? e.g.,

can the R40 support 1gb ram sticks
what type of CPU's I can use
will it support DVD burner

I looked thru the list and didn't see any previous posts
hope i am not a pest- I just want to hot rod my little thinkpad

thanks
Jethro

[tfflivemb2]

How can I tell what type of ultrabay I have in my R40 (2683/48U)?

Is there a source for capabilities for upgrades ? e.g.,

can the R40 support 1gb ram sticks
what type of CPU's I can use
will it support DVD burner

I looked thru the list and didn't see any previous posts
hope i am not a pest- I just want to hot rod my little thinkpad

thanks
Jethro

Hi, welcome to the forum!

Your R40 came with a Celeron 1.8GHz. You can go all the way up to a 2.6GHz. If you search this forum, you can find the part numbers for the processors.

The Ultrabay is an Ultrabay 2000, and the drives are interchangeable between the T2x, T30, A2x, A3x, R3x and R4x systems.

Yes, it will take 1gb sticks. Infact, brentpresley has some 1gb sticks of PC2700 for only $85 each. You can put in two sticks for a total of 2GB.

Yes, you can use a DVD burner for your system, internal or external. The external might be the cheapest route, though. The ultrabay 2000 DVD burners aren't very common and are pretty expensive. You might do best to get CD-RW/DVD drive and an external DVD-RW.

EDIT: I stand corrected. The 2x DVD-RW drives are common. I read that it was the faster drives that are rare.

[krazykritter]

I don't know about how rare they are. When I bought mine a while back the going price was most like $150 and the going rate seems to have come down a bit. DVD Burners on ebay

[schen]

They are common enough that I've been trying to sell my old IBM Multi-Burner (Matshita UJ-820s) for a while now. Since I upgraded to a DL NEC. It burned exactly 4 disks (2 DVDs and 2 CDs).