Good to know. My serial port was not marked although after looking at the unpopulated header, you’re right. It does appear to resemble a USB port. I’ll have to take it apart again and play around with it again.

Thanks for the info!

FIRESTORM_v1

The RBC124 may contain the right batteries to repopulate a BR24BPG or at least reload the ones that came with your UPS however I don’t think it would work in its existing configuration without further investigation. It really depends on how the battery pack is wired and brief googling didn’t turn up much in the way of wiring diagrams. Be safe and be careful. If something bad happens, it could catastrophically go bad.

Good luck!

FIRESTORM_v1

Unfortunately what you are describing is completely impossible. The WM8505 chip that powers the Sylvania netbook is nowhere near x86 compatible so running a standard OS is simply not going to happen. The only way that Bento is able to run on it was because some genius hackers found the spec for the WM8505 and were able to make patches to the linux kernel that would make it run.

Since you mention a 1TB External, it’s going to be in your best interest to consider a stronger netbook if you want to stay with the small form factor machines. Personally I have an Asus EeePC 900 and although I haven’t hacked it out, the card slot that the builtin SSD is connected to features a standard SATA port that some Eee users have wired to an external SATA port. Alternatively, the device supports booting from a USB HD natively in the BIOS and would serve as a far easier hack with better results than using the Sylvania.

An Eee on Ebay will run ~$50ish+shipping as of this post, so you may even be able to save a few dollars and if you’re lucky, you can get one with a larger SSD than the 4GB one in my Eee.

Good Luck!

FIRESTORM_v1

I’m not sure about the video issue, unfortunately the youtube and core player applets are not exactly the pinnacle of software development. As long as the display works well outside of these two apps (i.e. no streaks, missing chunks, ghosting, static, etc.) then it’s more than likely it’s a software fault. I would suggest seeing if you can find an alternative media player of some sort. While installing Linux may be appealing, it’s not for the faint hearted or a novice user. If you have a warranty on it, your best bet is to exercise it and see if you can either get a replacement or at least some support options.

Good luck!

FIRESTORM_v1

Unfortunately, I don’t have a company and I don’t work much with the stock Windows CE operating system that the device ships with. If you are running into troubles, I would suggest contacting Digital Gadgets (the makers of the device) via their phone support number, 1-888-571-0866 .

Good Luck.

FIRESTORM_v1

This is a wonderful find! Thank you for letting me know about the updated URL. I’ll have to check it out now that it’s back up, maybe I can find more recent kernel/OS for my sylvania.

Happy Hacking!

FIRESTORM_v1

The only thing I can think of is not to forget to set the bootable flag! (I think it’s x because b is for BSD label?) When I was making this howto, I forgot it and had to reboot into Clonezilla only to toggle bootable on the partition after expanding it.

I’ve slipstreamed Windows XPSP3 into a couple of install disks before, but I couldn’t find any of them when I made the test rig for the screenshots. I’ll have to take a look at the nlite utility and see if it might make things easier.

Happy Hacking!

FIRESTORM_v1

With regard to your license being for SP1 and you needing SP3, what you may be able to do is get your original SP1 disk and using nlite add service packs to it and create yourself a new install disk with sp3 already on it, but requiring your original license key. M$ uses an assortment of keys (full product, oem, upgrade) and you need to right type of media to use with the right key. I do a new nlite install for every license key type I need to reinstall.