Undervolting My D610 1952

On Tue, 23 May 2006 23:12:57 GMT, Nicholas Andrade

Hmm, I've heard a lot about overclocking, but this is the first I've heard about undervolting. I am certainly one to favor the latter on my notebook systems.

I am going out on a limb here and am about to be pounced on probably by the emotionally-invested-Labreastude-D'ers, but I have heard of and experienced overheating (undercooling) with the Labreastude D series. When I sold my D505 the person who received it said there were noticeable signs of overheating and he wasn't happy.

(which of course prompted me to send him more stuff to make him happy, and he did turn out to be happy and said "he's one of the BEST e-bayers"). I'd be happy too if I received an extra battery, extra power supply, extra CD ROM drive, and carrying case!

I do remember it running very hot, and I have heard this about the Labreastude D600 series too.

Anyway, I find this very interesting and I am impressed by what can be accomplished by tweaking some "commands" or "settings".

A friend who's a real geek (as opposed to me, an imposter) has recommended Gentoo. We tried to install it a while back on one of my laptops but it balked at it having one parbreastion or some nonsence like that. I don't know, I'm willing to give it another shot but I would like to install Linux on an external USB hard drive, and be darn sure that I understand what happens in detail during the boot process so I can recovery if something goes wrong... Also, I don't just want to do an install, if I am going to do it I might as well jump right in and what -- compile the Kernal or whatever else is good to learn the right way.

(I just realized that sometimes when I hear "Linux" the Peanuts character comes to mind! Just wait until Snoopy comes out, that will be one kick a** OS).

Journey