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Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

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On Thursday 19 January 2017 06:02:08 Doug wrote:
> On 01/19/2017 12:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> writes:
> >> Hi Martin,
> >>
> >> How much memory does the Dell Inspiron 2600 Series Laptop take?
> >
> > I gave Dell the service tag number and found that this model can
> > only hold 512 MB maximum and I was able to contact a company that
> > is shipping two 256 MB modules. One is the easy one, the little
> > door in the bottom near the battery. The other is the fun one,
> > called the factory configurable slot under the keyboard.
> >
> > 	Getting to this second slot is not terribly hard  as it
> > appears that the keyboard and touch pad panel will come off or
> > at least raise up but there is one last hurdle which I am trying
> > to jump without breaking something.
> >
> > 	The bottom edge of the screen exactly hides the last two
> > screws. You can't move it to any position which will expose them.
> >
> > 	The hinges and screen work fine and I want to keep it
> > that way but it looks like if one could temporarily take the
> > hinges loose from the screen, it would probably move enough to
> > take out the last two screws.
> >
> > 	I have been googling to find out if there is a way to
> > temporarily take the screen out of the grasp of the hinges and am
> > running in to the usual mechanized help syndrome of people who
> > want to sell you services and tons of articles about the wrong
> > models of Dell.
> >
> > 	I also know that one or both hinges probably also pass
> > the screen's electrical cables so whatever one does to the hinges
> > must be done with care to keep from cutting or damaging those
> > flex cables.
> >
> > 	Otherwise, I'm mostly there.
> >
> > 	When I do get it upgraded, it should run Debian as I have
> > gotten systems to run it on 384 MB without gnome.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions. In a previous life, I repaired AV
> > equipment in the eighties and the hinge problem is very similar
> > to a few others I have dealt with in that there is probably a
> > trick that makes all the difference between making things worse
> > and fixing it. Those screws do have to come out.
> >
> > Martin McCormick
>
> For most Dell laptops, there is a service manual. See if there is one for
> this model, and download it. The manual I used for my machine was
> very useful--it specifies the exact series of procedures you need to run
> to get at any particular module in the machine. Then you don't have to
> guess and maybe break something.

The time I had to do something to a Dell laptop, I downloaded the service 
manual and it gave detailed and easy-to-follow instructions a) on how to 
dismantle it and b) equally good instructions for putting it together again.

It was quite complicated, with all sorts of things layered.  I would not have 
been able to guess, but it was really easy (if some of it fiddly) with the 
instructions.

Lisi

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Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-18 04:10 +0100
  Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-01-18 04:30 +0100
  Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-01-18 04:40 +0100
    Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-01-18 06:40 +0100
      Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-01-18 15:30 +0100
    Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-18 17:30 +0100
      Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-01-18 23:00 +0100
        Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-19 06:10 +0100
          Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-01-19 07:10 +0100
            Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-01-19 09:00 +0100
              Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-19 15:40 +0100
            Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-01-19 11:40 +0100
          Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-01-19 18:00 +0100
            Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-01-19 18:40 +0100
              Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-19 19:50 +0100
              Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-20 22:30 +0100
  Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-01-18 21:10 +0100
    Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-01-18 22:10 +0100
      Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 (clarification) Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-01-18 22:30 +0100
        Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 (clarification) David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-01-18 23:00 +0100
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      Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-01-18 22:40 +0100
        Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 cbannister@slingshot.co.nz - 2017-03-20 18:30 +0100
          Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-03-20 19:00 +0100
            Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-03-21 00:40 +0100
          Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-03-21 00:40 +0100

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