ferrari one cpu/ram upgraded (& Bluetooth) - Page 2

The SO-DIMMs are behind the door with 3 screws on the bottom of the laptop. Unscrew, open the door, replace SO-DIMMs, close the door.

They do make 256GB V+ series and others do too. But even 256MB is becoming crazy money, fast 256GB SSDs are $500 or more.
You could try limiting top clock of your TL-66 with RMClock http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml or similar utility.

So the bluetooth module I have bought on eBay arrived today.
I have installed it. It seems that the right place is on top of a ribbon cable. There is little square rubber block on it. After removing it there is sticky glue underneath and just enough space for the bluetooth module. The wrist rest has no shielding over this spot as well.
The installation isn't hard but requires lots of disassembly.
Keyboard needs to be removed (by pushing 4 tabs on top of keyboard and then 2 on sides). Keyboard and touchpad ribbon cable needs to be disconnected from the motherboard. Then remove screws from the metal plate underneath keyboard. Flip the laptop, remove all the screws on the bottom. Open the door where memory and wifi card are, there is one additional screw underneath (near the memory slots). Then you can remove the top cover and install the module.
See the pictures of mainboard and bottom of the top cover for reference. The place where the bluetooth module goes is circled red.
The module is detected by Linux, rfkill device is created and module is activated automatically. Also, after it is installed there is additional (4th) unmarked blue LED right to the battery indicator that blinks indicating the bluetooth working. So far it works great with my Razer Orochi mouse.

Simply awesome. REP!

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The notebook is ferrari 1100?

And the bluetooth cable is 4pin or 5pin?

Thanks

Unless I am mistaken, the cable that comes with these BT modules has more than 5 pins.

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It seems to be 5 pin.
I got exactly this Bluetooth module
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-2-1-EDR-Acer...item35a58c5eaa

It fits perfectly and it comes with cable (and screws that are not applicable for F1)

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My Turion TL-60 arrived today.
I have installed it and it works great. In Linux PowerNow kernel module showed 4 P-states (800,1600,1800,2000MHz)
I hacked it to override it with 800,1000,1200,1600 and lower voltages. The lowest power state now uses over 2W less than before with L310 at 1200MHz.

Nice going. Thanks for the sharing. REP.

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right let me first thank you for providing the dismantle guide worked a treat an i installed the bluetooth module. i also took the opportunity to install a tk-42 cpu....BUT the cpu is detected in the bios correctly running at1.6ghz however in windows it detected as a tk-42 but at exactly the same clock as the previous cpu - anyone any idea how i change this> something tells me powernow is doing the damage!

Could be, what about a BIOS update?

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am running latest bios, as i say the bios detects it as a tk-42 at 1.6ghz but get into windows and says 1.2ghz same multiplier etc as the original l310

Im not sure what you mean but i am indeed for real and would most definately appreciate some advice, i have managed to unlock the full speed but prog am using seems glitchy and machine crashes when i unlock - pretty sure it is not heat related though since the cpu is only 7w hotter under full load, any idea what voltage a tk-42 is supposed to run at?

Ignore Smitherd's post - it's a spammer ... and zapped!

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If the BIOS says correctly, then Windows might have a glitch. I would try removing the computer processor device in device manager and let windows refreshing it.

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Be interested to know how you got the processor running at full speed?
Looking at cpu temps atm and for some reason there is a 7 deg difference between the 2 cores which seems VERY steep
I tried uninstalling the cpu and it comes back the same as before. interestingly i dont seem to be able to up the voltage to the correct level in rmclock - limited to 1V whilst I need 1.2V? I am sure there is a driver issue here just cant think how i can resolve it

Thanks guys, this thread is EXACTLY what I've been looking for.

I too have a Ferrari One and, although it's a great sub-notebook for its price, its ancient CPU is really limiting its potential.

The fact that it doesn't have automatic underclocking and undervolting makes both CPUs working at a constant 1.2GHz full-load, so the battery life is really sub-par and the fan is almost always working at full speed.

I was hoping to fit one of the newer 45nm, Phenom-based CPUs in there.
Here's a list of CPUs I would really like to put in my F1:
Turion II K625 15W (note: don't know if these will be available in a socket)
Turion II K665 15W (socket issue)
Athlon II Neo K325 12W (socket issue)
Turion II P520 25W
Turion II P320 25W

Any of these should theoretically offer much higher battery life in low power tasks. I know the chipset has the ability to work with these processors and I also know that even though these CPUs seem to require DDR3, the cores are compatible with DDR2.

However, firmware compatibility is a whole other issue.. So this should be a trial and error thing, right?

As stated before, even the Athlon X2 L510 should offer better battery life than the L310, because of PowerNow..



There are also other changes that can/could be made to this sub-notebook:

- Get a second 2GB module, which is VERY IMPORTANT. With a 2+1GB config the system only uses a single-channel memory controller, so memory bandwidth is actually cut in half. Since the IGP uses the system's memory, this makes quite a difference in games.

- Change the battery for a 63Wh, like the one in Acer 1830T (I think it's the same voltage and the form factor is the same)

- Find an internal bluetooth dongle, I could really use this to sync my cellphone..

- Clock the IGP to its normal speed. The HD3200 is clocked to 380MHz in this laptop. Through Powerstrip, I could clock it to the original 500MHz with no problems at all. It makes quite a difference in games.

- Finally, I would really like to see a XGP module for sale. ATI has shown this tech twice with this laptop. The last time it was in Computex.. but there's still no predicted date for XGP boxes.. sigh..

- Change the fan to a less noisy one, maybe a fluiid bearing one.

well i have got my tk-42 working fine off battery @ 1.6ghz using rmclock and semi stable @ 1.4ghz using my graphicbooster and mains.

You are going to have several problems firstly the choice of cpu is not only very limited due to heat constraints, socket issues, cpu availability and as i have found bios compatibility. I believe the only compatible cpu that is of the same heat output is the L510

I have upped the ram to 4gb, done the bluetooth, upgraded the hd to a 7200 rpm scorpio black and they all make small differences but none dramatic.
Interestingly if you upgrade the cpu and get it running at the correct clock you will also find that the memory and gpu clock will also increase which i found odd and a pleasant surprise - the speed difference in 3dmark 01 was dramatic to say the least! Although a word of caution, my system will not run @ full speed using the XGP - think there is an issue with bus speeds; despite the multiplier being used to increase the cpu speed.

Honestly dont think the fan upgrade will bring much since it is the size and rpm that make the noise rather than the mechanical noise.

My tip for the graphicbooster (Acer never actually produced a XGP unit) is to look on www.ebay.de - after a massive amount of trawling I managed to get brand new one from there for £40 all in.

Please keep us up top date with what you do - if you succeed with a cpu that doesnt require RMclock and runs stable @ full speed be very interested.