R31 upgrades

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dwilsonfl · #1 Post by **dwilsonfl** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:41 pm

was looking around over the last few weeks and spotted an R31 locally. Has 13" screen Celeron 1.2, floppy and CD/DVD Rom, 1 gig of RAM.

Any where to go in terms of upgrades or is this about as good as the R31 can get? Could I drop a Dothan chip in there? More RAM?

Thanks,

David

dwilsonfl · #2 Post by **dwilsonfl** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:15 am

well, found enough info to know that the RAM is pegged. Wish I could drop a Dothan chip in, might be a cool little machine. No internal wireless on this one.

Don't know which battery it has either Nicad or Li-on

dwilsonfl · #3 Post by **dwilsonfl** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:35 pm

I have an internal card that came out of my T40 when I went up to a "g", wonder if that would work in the R31 if I laid the antennas under the kyb.

ajkula66 · #4 Post by **ajkula66** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:36 pm

My advice would be to stay away from R3x units unless it's ridiculously cheap...there are many ThinkPads that are far more deservant of tinkering with...

Good luck.

vanaya · #5 Post by **vanaya** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:11 am

I have tinkered with a couple and not excited by them. The R30/1 have a soldered cpu, so no upgrades there. They also use pc133 ram so largest ram upgrade would be 1gb (2 512mb). The R32 series does have a socket type cpu and runs on pc2100/2700 ram. I only got them as ajkula66 states, very cheap.

dwilsonfl · #6 Post by **dwilsonfl** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:54 am

okay, not that cheap, so maybe find another t40 to play with

thanks guys

mike-s · #7 Post by **mike-s** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:30 am

The only reason im messing with a R30 still is the fact i got it 4 or so years ago when it was actually a viable peice of hardware to buy!!!

As we speak im trying to get 1gb of ram to work in my R30, but i have a sneaky suspicion the ram is faulty, yay, not!.

It's a good reliable bit of hardware, just old and slow (the cpu as mentioned, usb 1.1, ram limitations, trident video chipset & so forth) so as other have said, theres other hardware more worth spending the money on. I've only put out a bit extra as i've already GOT this laptop, if it wasn't for that sole fact it would have been given the flick a fair while ago.

p.s. it's pretty reliable too, only significant failure was a IC on the motherboard blew up once due to a power surge (the ic was 2cm from the power socket), got a new m/b off ebay cheap (dead lcd), so another thumbs up for ibm hardware.

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