Monday, June 19, 2006

IBM T30 Memory Upgrade

There's a demo laptop listed on the xen wiki> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDemoLaptop Quote: I put 2GB in my T42. One SODIMM goes on top of the motherboard and one beneath. The bottom one is easy to install; the top took quite a bit of dissembly. Some google searching located a service manual showing how to access the SODIMM socket. End Quote.

I have no idea why the group from Cambridge took this bush mechanic style step to upgrade an IBM T42! A friend of mine suggested an upgrade so instead of selling my T30's so I could by a MacBook, I decided to upgrade.

Well, after receiving the 2x 1Gb 200pin memory sockets, I promptly inserted them into the 2 memory sockets on my T30. Fantastico - Here's a picture to prove it. BTW: I'm running Linux - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake - IBM Thinkpad T30 Mobile P4 - M CPU 1.8GHz. No need for a MacBook!
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George said...

I have seen this at a few sites online but no one has listed the type of memory they used. Would you care to share the specs of the 1GB modules.

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