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Re: Memory Upgrade for Ancient Enspiron 2600

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On 01/18/2017 09:01 PM, 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

Here's a 2650 replacement, maybe it will help. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kzYN8FuHU
-- 
Jimmy Johnson


Debian Sid/Testing - Plasma 5.8.4 - Kernel 4.8.0-2 - EXT4 at sda24
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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
          Re: Congratulations BILL , Your Roof is Covered - FREE!bFPM John Miller <xeno757@gmail.com> - 2017-01-19 15:50 +0100
      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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