On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Kenneth Lynes wrote: > I know that the person is not asking this, but it would seem that it > might be possible to bring along some ram for that laptop. I think that > ddr is probably used and it would be easy to find 512mb modules really > cheap now and bring a couple of them along so that the laptop could > actually run some program after booting up. 1gb ram would seem minimal > to run most anything - even on linux. I'm in Ecuador. I won't be back for a year, maybe two years. I need to fix it now, so it's either live with the 495 MB RAM or buy more RAM here in Ecuador. I might try that, but I don't expect the prices to be very reasonable. Food is cheap here, but electronics are expensive. Ecuador uses the US Dollar as its currency. It looks like the Pentium M processor with it's missing pae is going to be troublesome. Maybe I can go to an older version and get it to work. Mike