Good news for Latitude X1 owners!

Thanks everyone it is working now. I went for the Crucial as per KZAROG above. Works well now I have a new PC !! I think one issue was I had notpushed it in hard enough so it was running on the internal 248MB but all ok now. Next will be to install the SSD and reload all the software.

 

I too would like to thank the contributors to this forum.

I purchased my X1 new from Dell for way too much money, but its value to me has grown to be that of an old friend. I upgraded the memory years ago, but that was it, and was about to put it to bed - when I used google as my friend (which they are not) and found this forum (so maybe a little).

A new OEM screen and assembly from ebay ($40), new KingSpec SSD from ebay ($65), new wifi N card ($30), and Windows 7 (free, had a license) later my old friend has a new lease on life. Best $125 spent in a long while.

I could not have found the drivers, the right SSD or the right wifi card as easily without all of your help.

Thank you.

 

Can you give some specification of your SSD and wifi card? \
Thanks

 

Hey everyone I got excited when I fixed a friends X1 changing port and did a reinstall of windows for her That X1 was gr8 pretty swift so I bought one off the C.List very good shape no HDD or Ram

I brought a 1.8-Inch 50-Pin IDE to CF Enclosure here:
Amazon.com: StarTech.com 1.8-Inch 50-Pin IDE to Compact Flash Solid State Drive Enclosure IDE502CFE: Electronics

2 GB PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz here:
Amazon.com: Patriot Signature 2 GB PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz Notebook Memory PSD22G8002S: Electronics

Dane-Elec High Speed 300X 32 GB
Amazon.com: Dane-Elec High Speed 300X 32 GB USB 2.0 Compact Flash Card UDMA DA-CF30-32G-C: Electronics


tryed installing Xp or Win7 both and My X1 but it runs very slow the HDD light is always stead on it took hrs to install either OS's and 4ever to load to Desktop
I have tried replacing the motherboard and the CF ssd more than once

I have re flashed to an older bios A2 , A4 , A6 does not matter still very very very slow boot

Any ideas what to try next

Thanks

 

As I understand it, CF are useless for random read/writ eperformance, regardless of the rating. You could try running something like CrystalDiskMark and report the performance here.

 

thanks sir i will report back

I forgot to say that the friends X1 that I fix had the OEM HDD and it ran windows 7 fair but XP very good

 

hello, just found this thread - had an x1 since release in the UK (2004/05???) and still going strong - well case is looking a bit worse for wear and now on second cheap ebay battery, Oh and also had to solder the insides up so it got power and charges, and the power supply has been fixed a few times when the wires wore out - plus the headphone jack and right usb connection are a bit temperamental.

This thing has been has been around the world. And is about to again.

I am thinking of upgrading the ram to this Samsung NC10 Netbook Memory Ram Upgrade :: Samsung NC10 Ram Upgrade :: Offtek.co.uk, the Memory Superstore

will it work?

Anyone got any good links to cheap and good ebay style batteries and/or know if I can take apart and replace the cells in the cheap ebay battery I have now?

Cheers for the great thread!

 

Efoot: Like MrRimmer suggested, random write performance of CF card is probably very poor. They can do about 5-10 random write operations per second (IOPS), while hard disk can do about 100 and decent SSDs several thousands.
You can see it in the crystaldiskmark 4KB ramdom write score compared to SSDs earlier in the thread (even HD can do 0.5-1MB/s of random writes). Random reads are probably OK, but that isnt helping if every small write takes 200ms.

 

Thanks I am getting

CrystalDiskMark 3.0

2 Pass (500MB)

- - - - Read / Write
Seq --- 62.78 / 20.26
512K -- 59.31 / 0.698
- 4K -- 5.57 / 0.008
- 4K -- 5.85 / 0.010

I have found an HDD OEM sound like the performance on it would be better served in this application ?

 

Yes, those 4k writes are appallingly weak. A HDD or proper SSD would be much more usable.