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Saturday, February 25, 2006

ThinkPad 770X Revival - **UPDATE**

Ok so I'm going to post some pictures of the update process and give an overview of the process.
I'll do this slowly as I have time and just update this same post and add to it.



First, here's the old girl before surgery. give a click for the full size image and check the specs.
A tired old PII 300 and 66MHz Bus. Note that I had already installed the new RAM as I wanted to test it first.







Here's the new 500MHz PIII MMC2 module waiting to be installed. This shows the top and bottom of the module and the inset is a blow-up of the processor ID. This indicates a 500MHz non-speedstep II module with 256K full speed ATC (Advanced Transfer Cache).






Here's a montage of the disassembly process.
Top left: Keyboard and lid removed.
Top Right: Shield, speakers, modular items removed.
Bottom left: GFX board removed, looking at CPU module, DC<->DC board waiting to come out.
Bottom right: My big paw installing the new module.



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