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Re: Non-disruptive swap on 701cs



Bryan Daum wrote:
> 
> Following up my last note:  As it is clear from your letter that indeed you
> have 40 megs, have you always had the 40 or did you first go through the 24
> meg upgrade?  What I am getting to is whether the 40 meg option is worthy of
> selling the 16 meg chip (paid $300 ;-( ...) and go searching for a 32?  Of
> course if you haven't had both you won't know...
> 
> Bryan
Bryan,
 I'm sorry I didn't mean to mis-lead you.  I currently have only 24megs,
but I'm only waiting to see if IBM has finally fixed my computer
correctly before I upgrade to 40. I bought the 16 meg upgrade for only
$129.  I have seen the 32 meg chip for as low as $382, but I don't
recall where now.  I have had a significant improvement with the 24
megs, and I don't know if 40megs will make much more of a difference,
but I currently run Office 97 on Win95 and that is already putting quite
a demand on my memory.  I will soon be running AutoCAD R13 and that
needs as much memory as it can get.  The improvement you see depends on
what applications you plan on running simultaneously.  If you just use
Office 97, then the 24 megs should suffice and the cost to benefits
ratio may not validate getting the 32 meg chip.  However, the trend I
see on desktops running Win95 is now 32megs to run smoothly so.......
Anyhow, do you have a 701?  If so, try doing the hot swap.  The
procedure is outlined in the owner's manual.  It's a very simple
procedure.   While running on battery power alone,Just close the lid (if
the computer is set to suspend on lid close, if not use the Fn+F1 key
combo get into the setup and change it to suspend on lid close) wait for
the power light to go out and the hard drive to spin down, then turn the
computer over and release the battery catch and remove the battery and
replace it.  Then turn computer back over and open the lid.  If you were
succesful, the computer should come out of suspend right where you left
off.  On your first test try it might be a good idea to save anything
you're working on in case it doesn't work, but you already knew that. 
If you are running Win 95 and have APM enabled (with the little battery
icon in the tray and a battery icon in control panel) let me know if it
works for you.