Ultra portable laptop £299 cont

[MonkeyBum]

Woops forget it.

[EverybodyelsE]

Hi all. I'm getting the SIM 2000 from ebay and wondered if the Dothan Pentium M 735 Centrino CPU 1.7Ghz 1700/2M SL7EP would be compatible?

Also, can you use MSI Bios updates and drivers?

Thanks,

Martin Johnson

[weebroonieuk]

yeh im resurecting this thread too to see if anyone got the dothans to run at 533 fsb and if not did they find a pin mod that did ?

[EverybodyelsE]

I have just upgraded my SIM 2000. Here's what I've changed:

FROM - TO

Intel Celeron M 350 1.3/1M/400 - Intel Pentium M 345 1.8/2M/400
40GB Hard Drive - 60GB Hard Drive 7200rpm
No Wi-Fi Adaptor Installed - Intel 2200BG Wi-Fi Adaptor
256MB Samsung PC2700 Memory - 2GB (2048MB) Kingston PC2700 Memory

First of all you should update the BIOS to the latest version 2.10MME. As some of you may know the CPU I'm using (the Pentium M 345) has Speedstep technology.

THIS NEXT BIT IS IMPORTANT!
The CPU will run at 600MHZ unless you download a utility called RMClock. This allows you to set up the CPU how you want it. I have it running at 600MHZ on battery and 1.8GHZ when using the mains.

My laptop can now run Grand Theft Auto: Vice City! It's a little choppy but it's quite an achievement.

If anyone has any questions them please post.

[Pingu2003]

ive run a 2Ghz Pentium M (dothan chip) 2mb cache, i used notebook hardware control (nhc) to strap the settings in windows (which can load with windows), is a neat utility that can give temps or cpu, board, hdd, gpu, + overclocking etc..

i tried a few bioses, even the msi ones without success.

the hard drive deffinatly needs upgrading, is veeeerrrry slow

[Agent]

Hey EverybodyelsE

Does the Wireless button below the screen still work with the Intel wireless card installed ?

Cheers

[EverybodyelsE]

Does the Wireless button below the screen still work with the Intel wireless card installed ?

Yes the Button does work as it should and the WLAN LED lights up too.

used notebook hardware control (nhc) to strap the settings in windows (which can load with windows), is a neat utility that can give temps or cpu, board, hdd, gpu, + overclocking etc..

That sounds like a similar program, Pingu2003. Does the NHC proram let you overclock the GPU? Have you tried it and if so by how much?

I have also tried the MSI S250 BIOS. The system worked as it should but I couldn't use the Windows XP that came with the notebook.

[Pingu2003]

yes overclocks ati cards no problems, ofcourse the sim2000 uses a sis / intel chipset?
with no support yet

[weebroonieuk]

i think it does nhc is a great program download and try it its extremely good for setting load and voltage settings and for each setting it can do a quick 30 sec load test to see if it locks up at whatever voltage
if not keep going lower noting your voltage one step at a time and when it does lock up reset and go up to the setting before retest it make sure its stable then do the long test just to make sure if not turn it up a little more i knocked quite a bit of my idle and full load voltage usually idle around 25 to 28 degrees messing around with a few pages of firefox and email open and the usual apps like firewall and antivirus

[Pingu2003]

also you can knock the voltage down to like 0.7v @ lowest speed (speedstep) instead of 0.98v

if it works fine then you got extra battery time on your hands

[weebroonieuk]

oh could you post the link to the download of the latest bios and is it a winflash or flash from a floppy was it an easy update ?

[EverybodyelsE]

To update the BIOS on the Medion SIM 2000 go to the Medion UK website then go to 'Drivers and Updates' and where it says MD/LT Number type the number on the base of your laptop or use the full text search and type 'SIM 2000'.

To flash the BIOS just run the .exe file and put the extracted files on a floppy disk. Boot into DOS using a boot disk and just type 'f' and the flashing begins. It pretty much the same with the MSI S250 BIOS but I didn't really see much difference apart from the change of boot logo.

Hope this helps

[weebroonieuk]

most helpfull il give it a whirl later once ive sorted a few things out , wonder if its got a changelog to make sure its worth it


cheers !

[Ceefer]

To update the BIOS on the Medion SIM 2000 go to the Medion UK website then go to 'Drivers and Updates' and where it says MD/LT Number type the number on the base of your laptop or use the full text search and type 'SIM 2000'.

To flash the BIOS just run the .exe file and put the extracted files on a floppy disk. Boot into DOS using a boot disk and just type 'f' and the flashing begins. It pretty much the same with the MSI S250 BIOS but I didn't really see much difference apart from the change of boot logo.

Hope this helps

I've got one of these nice little laptops and have just (yesterday) upgraded the cpu from a 1.3 ghz Celeron M to a 1.6 ghz Pentium M (much easier than I thought it would be actually). It boots with the cpu at 600 mhz (x6 multiplier) but this is easily changed with Notebook Hardware Control.

I'm very nervous about trying to upgrade the BIOS and I'm a little confused by the instructions given above. If you put the extracted files on a floppy disk how do you then use that floppy with a laptop with no floppy drive? Does EverybodyelsE mean that you have to use an external floppy drive or did he actually mean put the extracted files on a bootable CD?

Is it actually worth doing this BIOS upgrade?

[EverybodyelsE]

I've got one of these nice little laptops and have just (yesterday) upgraded the cpu from a 1.3 ghz Celeron M to a 1.6 ghz Pentium M (much easier than I thought it would be actually). It boots with the cpu at 600 mhz (x6 multiplier) but this is easily changed with Notebook Hardware Control.

I'm very nervous about trying to upgrade the BIOS and I'm a little confused by the instructions given above. If you put the extracted files on a floppy disk how do you then use that floppy with a laptop with no floppy drive? Does EverybodyelsE mean that you have to use an external floppy drive or did he actually mean put the extracted files on a bootable CD?

Is it actually worth doing this BIOS upgrade?

If your processor is working then leave it. I copied the files to a CD then booted from a windows CD and swapped disks when I had CD support. But you seem OK so I wouldn't bother. I couldn't actually see any difference in features or performance.

[stuppy]

Holy reserection Batman!

Sorry to bump a majorly old thread. But I feel its better to add to an already informative thread then start a new one.

I have had one of these machines (1.4celly) for a year now. I have just purchased this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...B:EOIBSA:UK:11

to go in it. I am pretty sure it should work no problems. That CPU is a hell of a lot more powerful the the Celeron in there at the moment right?

Bought an Intel 2915 WiFi card as well to replace the crap PCMCIA one that I get crap signal even next to the wireless point on.

Thoughts?