Rd's latest Latitude

[ratdude747]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

Try this, its what i used i think.

You rock! Worked great. I had found a similar tool but it was useless.

[gilly1984]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

Try this, its what i used i think.

[gilly1984]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

The screen is higher res than I thought... 1680 x 1050. Even bigger than my D630's screen.

Still working on getting rid of that admin BIOS password, any free suggestions? (service tag is C3NGW31)

edit- it seems that that the volume down button is busted.

I had a d630 with bios password on it. I had to download a program called "latitude.exe" and enter the service tag into it, it then gave me the master password.

[ratdude747]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

The screen is higher res than I thought... 1680 x 1050. Even bigger than my D630's screen.

Still working on getting rid of that admin BIOS password, any free suggestions? (service tag is C3NGW31)

edit- it seems that that the volume down button is busted.

[smason]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

The D800 is a workhorse. We had about 60 of them at work, very few problems.
Absolutely no issues with Nvidia on those.
Pretty slow by today's standards, not sure it's worth spending money on.
I gave away my last 2, and the 810s. Just 830s at home now.

[ratdude747]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

I love how the main fan is a removable module via 2 screws... easiest HS cleaning EVER (unlike the "clean the fan" video). There was a dust carpet in there... There is a second fan and HS for the GPU; I also cleaned that (it was pretty clean).

Popped in my 60b Hitachi drive... installing debian testing ATM (for testing).

So far, I am pretty impressed with the design and quality... on the long trek home, After getting it to 90%+ charge, I let it drain w/o the HDD via the BIOS page... it went for about 2.5 Hr. Sounds like a decent battery (since it has a reserve batt, It can warm swap batteries too).

I may upgrade the RAM and CPU down the road... It seems to have potential.

[c_hegge]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

Nice. The GF4 GPUs don't have the underfill issue (and I don't think they had RoHS solder issues either), so it should be fine.

I also scored myself a Dell (see the scores thread), but it has more problems than a missing HDD.

[ratdude747]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

better than my dv1000 intel 915g graphics.

except I got this for free

hehe

My last free one was toast... same vintage, an HP NC6000.

[Uranium-235]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

better than my dv1000 intel 915g graphics.

except I got this for free

hehe

[ratdude747]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

I would have stayed away from the Nvidia video. I would have spent $25 more and got a D820 with a Core 2 Duo and intel graphics.

The place didn't have that... It was bought in person at purdue university's surplus store.

IIRC that old of an Nvidia chip has the problem.

[Topcat]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

^
I think the GF4 was prior to the undefill issue, so I don't think it'll end with graphics issues.

Its gonna be slow, but it'll be a fine web browser.,

[brethin]

Re: Rd's latest Latitude

I would have stayed away from the Nvidia video. I would have spent $25 more and got a D820 with a Core 2 Duo and intel graphics.

[ratdude747]

Today I bought a Dell latitude D800 to replace my dad's dead netbook (or my D400).

For $50, I got:

-pentium M 1.7GHz
-640mb Ram
-nvidia geforce 4 32mb GPU
- newer OEM 80WHr battery (less than 20% wear, replaced a stock sony)
-no HDD, had the complete caddy
- combo drive
- included PA-10 brick
- minus a couple of minor scuffs, its in great shape.
- dell says that it has a broadcom B/G/A card.

It also has a stupid admin password on the Bios... I'll fix that when I get home.


Everything seems to work on it... how did I do?