richcornucopia Posted December 19, 2005 CID Share Posted December 19, 2005 Allright, my friend just got a new laptop for his birthday.Before he got his new one he had this Hp Omnibook 6100 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,22967,00.asp. I told him I'd give him 50 bucks to take it off his hands and he agreed. Right now it has an old battery that last no longer than 15-20 minutes, a 20 gig hardrive, and 384 megs of ram, so I thought it was a good deal. MY question is what can I do to upgrade it. While I'm very knowlagable in computer building and upgrading I know almost nothing about upgrading a laptop. Is it possible to get a new processor that would work with it, new hardrive, more ram? All suggestions are welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted December 19, 2005 CID Share Posted December 19, 2005 you will pretty much be stuck with the options the mfr offers. go to their website and see what upgrades they still sell. processor unlikely, ram and hd more likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 19, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 19, 2005 Allright, I'll look there. So you think I wont be able to upgrade the processor, because the motherboard probably doesn't support any faster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAINMAKA Posted December 19, 2005 CID Share Posted December 19, 2005 i am in the same boat with richcornucopia, my neighbor got a new computer and i got his laptop. 1.7Ghz processor and 512ram but the harddrive keeps having disc error and i cant even turn it on now any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 19, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 19, 2005 The hardrive might have overheated and you have some bad sectors now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted December 19, 2005 CID Share Posted December 19, 2005 in all likelyhood the board in the notebook is hardwired for just that processor. saves money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 19, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 19, 2005 Yea, I think for now I'll just look for some more ram and a battery cause its really annoying having to plug it in every 15 minutes. For about 100 bucks I can get a new one that will last 3-4 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elite.Pete Posted December 19, 2005 CID Share Posted December 19, 2005 thats why i have never been a fan of laptops poor battery life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 19, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 19, 2005 Yea, poor battery life after 3 years, but generally battery life is very good for the first year or 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted December 20, 2005 CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 HP Omnibook 6000 series: Battery, Hard Drive, and CD-R/DVD Combo Components It seems your system takes 133Mhz 3.3v, 144-pin SDRAM SO-DIMM, it has two RAM slots up and the HP Store sells them from 128MB to 512MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAINMAKA Posted December 20, 2005 CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 i looked at the link that peepnklown posted for laptop components and i found a hard drive for my laptop. what would be involved in switching hard drives? it is very complicated and some what basic. i am not worried about any information on my computer just want it to get running normally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted December 20, 2005 CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 get the hard drive supported by your laptop. open the case using a screwdriver/crowbar/cutting torch/all of the above. replace existing drive. of course, if you laptop lets you, some do some don't, place the harddrive in an extra bay or the bay occupied by the cdrom. it's actually not really different from replacing a desktop hdd, just that the connector has the power pins together with the data pins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAINMAKA Posted December 20, 2005 CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 ok i wouldnt have to go out and purchase windows xp again right? im pretty sure i dont but i want to make sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 20, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 If you still have the windows cd then no, you wouldn't have to buy it again. You could just install it from the cd on your new hardrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAINMAKA Posted December 20, 2005 CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 i have a set of system restore cds that came with the laptop with xp on them. would they work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 20, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 Yea they would reinstall windows, but you would lose all of your files so make sure you back up everything you want to keep. (music, word docs, excel, pictures) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAINMAKA Posted December 20, 2005 CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 im not worried about documents and all my programs are already on disc. so i should be good to go just replace the hard drive with a new one and use the my system restore cds right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 20, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 Yep, just put in the new hardrive and you can use the disks to restore it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAINMAKA Posted December 20, 2005 CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 wow thanks alot, it doesn't really sound that complicated at all. say i go buy this harddrive and i end up running into some problem do u think someone would be able to help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 20, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 There are tons of knowlagable people on this site, and whereever you buy it from will have some type of customer support that you can talk to. If you can find place where you can pick it up locally I would do that because they can give you an idea of what you have to do and they can guide you on the installation. If not you can find help elsewhere if you need it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAINMAKA Posted December 20, 2005 CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 true thats a good point. plus im only 18 so i dont have a credit card yet and my parents are always worried when they put their credit card on the internet and i can understand why. but buying locally would be best too, no shipping Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted December 20, 2005 CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 You can defiantly upgrade your ram and hard disk Forget about the CPU and Graphics Card that is built in the mother board most of the time (the CPU might not but it would be too difficult to upgrade) you need to open the bottom of Ur laptop and check what can be removed/replaced and what can't don't buy ram before you are sure of the type of ram you have laptop ram can be tricky I'm advising Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted December 20, 2005 CID Share Posted December 20, 2005 basically the ram is usually so-dimms and the hdds are 2.5 inchers instead of the usual 3.5 inchers on a desktop. but since the exception is the rule and everything that can go wrong will go wrong (and don't be fooled if it doesn't, it's just waiting for a more inconvenient time to go wrong) you should go to the manufacturers website for your laptop and armed with the model and serial number browse what they offer, if they give any limits as to ram or hdd size and so on. take the time and write their support e-mail to please give you a list of compatible upgrades or at least the specs i mentioned. edit: and 3 cheers for you for worrying about having a legal windows. that's the way to do it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark06 Posted December 21, 2005 CID Share Posted December 21, 2005 forget windows on a laptop go whit linux they use less resources so you ussally get more battery life but then again it depends on what you want to do all i did on my old one was surf the internet and type papers which linux can do nicely but if you want to play dvds cds or play games on it forget it basicly if you want to install anything that only runs on windows is a no . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted December 21, 2005 CID Share Posted December 21, 2005 true. linux will use less resources on a laptop. the reason being that it won't be able to talk to half the components in the laptop. drivers for linux in general is a pain in the ass, but drivers for laptop hardware that is even more proprietary are a cast iron bitch to get together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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