St5112?

[Greg_E]

You could always break the plastic off and solder the cables directly to the card, that would remove most of the bulk. Or go with the models that have the small connectors and just make a junction for the cables to your device using smaller connectors or solder and heatshrink. You could get some really nice 8 conductor Lemo connectors but they might cost you $100 each.

[prroots]

You could always break the plastic off and solder the cables directly to the card, that would remove most of the bulk. Or go with the models that have the small connectors and just make a junction for the cables to your device using smaller connectors or solder and heatshrink. You could get some really nice 8 conductor Lemo connectors but they might cost you $100 each.

I just ordered the Syba PCMCIA 2-Port RS232 Serial CardBus (model SD-PCM15009) on eBay for $15. I've also been in email contact with Syba. The black part is only 74 mm wide so will easily clear other stuff width-wise. I still don't know if the black part will clear the bezel; it's a question of the clearance between black part and PCMCIA slot surface. Anyway, I shall report back when I receive it. Thanks for the idea!
Pete

[Greg_E]

Mine will arrive next week sometime, still not sure if I'll need it but it will be nice to have if I run into a network switch with a stubborn console port.

[Greg_E]

My stupid fan is now squealing again when it should be running at the lowest setting Not sure what I'm going to do about it now aside from trying to clean it and see what happens. Probably still going to need to track down a new replacement.

[Greg_E]

Fujitsu adds RAM in a very strange way... Added two 2048 modules, BIOS adds it to 3328 and so does the OS, I do remember this thing being marketed as taking 4GB. Still only 224MB for video so that isn't where the rest is going. May need to call Fujitsu and ask what is going on. I do have the most recent BIOS installed so I know that isn't the issue.

It will take a 500GB drive if anyone is ever considering the upgrade.

[Agent 9]

Fujitsu adds RAM in a very strange way... Added two 2048 modules, BIOS adds it to 3328 and so does the OS, I do remember this thing being marketed as taking 4GB. Still only 224MB for video so that isn't where the rest is going. May need to call Fujitsu and ask what is going on. I do have the most recent BIOS installed so I know that isn't the issue.

It will take a 500GB drive if anyone is ever considering the upgrade.

start task manager and click "Resource Monitor" then go to the ram tab and see what it says for the allocation of ram


Side note: after selling my touchpad I have been considering the ST5112, one of the Motion Tablet PC''s like the M1400 or LE1600, or simply using some to buy a decent monitor calibrator and some little things with the leftover... don't yet know what to get

[Greg_E]

Even the BIOS doesn't add up to 4GB so Windows can't see everything. I'm loading and updating Linux as well as ran the memory test before installing it and it only went up to 3.1GB so there is some odd hardware issue that won't allow it to go to 4GB. Probably something they built in for XP.

[prroots]

start task manager and click "Resource Monitor" then go to the ram tab and see what it says for the allocation of ram


Side note: after selling my touchpad I have been considering the ST5112, one of the Motion Tablet PC''s like the M1400 or LE1600, or simply using some to buy a decent monitor calibrator and some little things with the leftover... don't yet know what to get

Thanks. My ST5112 (U7600 proc) with 1G RAM running Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bits reports:

In use: 569M
Modified 23M
Standby 411M
Free 9M

Pete

[prroots]

Even the BIOS doesn't add up to 4GB so Windows can't see everything. I'm loading and updating Linux as well as ran the memory test before installing it and it only went up to 3.1GB so there is some odd hardware issue that won't allow it to go to 4GB. Probably something they built in for XP.

Isn't the limitation due to the fact that XP is a 32 bit OS?
Pete

[qhorque]

Isn't the limitation due to the fact that XP is a 32 bit OS?

Yes, this is just a limitation of XP and, given it's an older OS and not going to change, it's best to just ignore this as there's nothing anyone can do to fix it.

There is ONE way to "help" though and that's to set the /3GB switch in boot.ini which will allow Windows to use as much of the available RAM as it can, up to 3GB. It won't use 4GB but it can use 3GB.

In the root of C:\ there is a file called boot.ini which can be edited by adding the following to the [operating systems] line:

/3GB

So that it looks like this:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB

Or whatever your line says but add /3GB to the end and reboot.

Furthermore, you can add the /USERVA=2900 switch that fine tunes the RAM usage between user mode and kernel mode but generally only if you have applications that require some tweaking.

Google /3GB userva and read some articles to better understand it all.

That's the only way to "see" up to 3GB. Or install 64Bit XP or Windows 7.