Alienware Project Lazarus. Help

UPDATE

All done swapping parts. More RAM, new HDD, faster cpu. The m3200 is up and running very nicely. It boots up XP in roughly 15-20 seconds, compared to the matter of minutes it was before (im sure the virus had something to do with it). As I mentioned before, this was my first time under the hood so a big thanks and +1 rep to cleverpseudonym for all of the help and advise. Here are some new pics of the computer actually functioning! Its a great little netbook now.

 

Nothing's really replaceable there, that's an old Sentia (Alienware's first try at an ultraportable). It's a fun collection piece though

 

Wipe the HDD and start with a new install of the operating system. Shouldn't be much to it. Maybe add some more RAM while yout at it if you have any laying around.

 

i just rebuilt sn sold one of these pm me and ill run down the basics of it. i have an extra mother board as well. if it only has a virius, just format the Hdd and re-install XP. i have a Stripped down version of XP pro that uses the Apple OSX shell that ruyns great on that machine. TBH i liked the M3200 ALOT more than this ASUS netbook. i have some 512mb ram sticks to i could get to you. probably some other peices as well. good luck with it i really liked mine

 

Sweet, a piece of AW history. Can you post pics?

 

Yaaa let us see some pics please, please

 

History in your hands.

I would love to find one still put together. Ever since i found out about them i have searched ebay and can only ever find pieces of them.

Its not a very powerful computer but would make a nice little travel linux box

 

You know what, I REALLY want one of these. I hopped on Google to find some pics and it looks really cool. If you combined the current AW design with that one it would look incredible.

 

Yeah try to upgrade RAM. It could work as a sort of a netbook style PC, no? What's the battery life?

P.S. Oh and ... PICS please!

 

Im not too sure about battery life. I honestly havent spent much time on it. Im sure its got to be around 4-6hrs. I will post pics later. Ill start taking some as Im working on it and post the finished product. Right now, Im looking for a cheap compatible processor (Intel Pentium M 760 2.0GHz), and some more RAM. I think thats all Ill be doing to it. Intel gpu's seem good enough to run older Unreal games as well as half life. Thats good enough for me.

 

were was all the love when i was selling mine in the marketplace!? it will only recognize 2 gigs of ram, i was able to get the m760 for like $30 on ebay. i found a 320gig hdd with the pata ide connection for $75 on fleabay as well. it will use pc2-5300 ram although it downclocks it. that ram is way easy to find. i thik i have a few 1gb sticks still if your interested. battery life while at full power goes for about 3.5-4 hours, im sure if you actually did things to presurve the life of the battery, it would be much longer.
link for CPU
http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Pentium-M...0186?cmd=ViewItem&pt=CPUs&hash=item53e1668dfa
or this

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-pentium-M...4641?cmd=ViewItem&pt=CPUs&hash=item563c8fcd61

 

It's the 'little brother' to my m5500! I was pining for one of those for the longest time, but wound up getting the m5500 instead. What I did with my m5500 is turned it into a Linux machine since the processor is a bit long in the tooth now (I have the Pentium M 2.0Ghz) and it's still a fantastic machine that will last a long time.

 

Just a bump for one more question. My current Hard drive is ATA/100 can I purchase a larger SATA and replace it with that?

 

ATA/100 is IDE I think, so no. You have to get a IDE drive. Which unfortunatly are starting to be hard to find.

 

I see on newegg that there are only a couple of IDE-based laptop hard drives-

Linky Here

 

I managed to find someone selling a 160gb IDE based drive on amazon. The one that came with this fossil was 40gb.

Im going to have to download all my drivers again huh? Anyone know where to find the driver for the motherboard? or can win XP help me out with that?

 

This is what I found at AW for you-

Driver download linky

 

I didnt know... i just didnt know

One of these little puppies with 2GB ram, 320GB HDD could run windows7 pretty easily and probably get a decent little boost in battery life.

 

Might not be easy to find but there were early PATA, aka IDE, SSD drives which would make it a lightning quick little road warrior, you could put the current drive in a portable USB assembly and carry it in your pocket. IDE drives aren't that hard to find though it just takes a bit of searching got a BNIB WD 160Gb for my XPS Gen1 for $79 on the bay.

 

AH! Youre the best. Thank you. Thank you. Thank You

 

Bump. Check the update in the main post. Pics coming soon!

 

NIce pics
its a pretty neat little beast I like it's style! How does it performs?

 

Wow... nice! Definitely looks unique, the alien sign on the back looks giant. Whats the alienware next to it?

 

Thats the old m15x. The alien sign is much larger compared to newer models

 

Awesome pics!!!

You're making me want to get one again.

 

I would trade my m5500 for one that works.

 

I want one even more now... but i'll probably have to settle for the M11x.

wait... alienware had an MP3 player too!

 

They even had an HTPC at one point...

 

I missed out on all the cool things

 

I almost grabbed one at the time, but the price prevented me from doing so. It looked like an A/V component-

 

wow this one is even older than mine was, mine was a darker grey color, ill try to drege up some pics for comparision. awsome job BTW!

 

SkinnyJr- I went back and looked again at the pics you posted- I noticed Angelina Jolie- Nice touch.

 

Yeah, shes nice to look at

 

i've never even heard of an alienware before the m11x asides from ones that were floating around unseen within alienware headquarters.

wow

 

Nevermind...almost done!

 

UPDATE

All done swapping parts. More RAM, new HDD, faster cpu. The m3200 is up and running very nicely. It boots up XP in roughly 15-20 seconds, compared to the matter of minutes it was before (im sure the virus had something to do with it). As I mentioned before, this was my first time under the hood so a big thanks and +1 rep to cleverpseudonym for all of the help and advise. Here are some new pics of the computer actually functioning! Its a great little netbook now.

 

Congrats! I'm rather jealous, as I wanted one of those back in the day.

 

that's so awesome makes me want mine back sooo BAD!!! great Job with it, it looks stellar!