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INSPIRON_E1505_USER

Bought this laptop about 5 years ago during covid pandemic, when i needed a emergency laptop to do online work and school. It was 200 bucks and the only computer they had lol people had bought everything up. It served me well, i did school and work on this thing, it had Windows 10 on it but is S ...

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came back from trip thanks for the responses, the computer did well, but the visit i went on, i didnt really need a computer so i was just BS'ing around with it looking crazy at the airport lol

BWP works, i do know im pushing it though, youtube, forums and shopping sites all work no problem

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

Just looking to see if there's anything to we can share as far as maximizing the use out of the old machine and im wondering how is yours running? etc.

BWP is awesome! works great, uses more ram than bionic though but i don't have any issues. I do want to help it run cooler but i remember buying ...

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I was running my computer all night, everything is still working and booting

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

I found the problem i think.

****FOR SHORT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ***>>>>> tried these multiple times and the culprit is the not having the "lba" flagged also, along with the "boot" flag.

bigpup I did everything you told me too and i keep having issues then clicking stuff and trying everything ...

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It was working fine before, the previous USB I was using was unfortunately wiped or formatted. So, then I made a new bootable USB recently with the downloaded iso 10.0.8 because I also didn't have my previously downloaded iso. Now it's not working or booting, tried everything from rufus and using my ...

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yes ill make a bookwormpup post

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

Long read ahead sorry! :thumbup:

Messing with bookwormpup64 and accidently messed up my partitions/saves tried to delete it, then accidently deleted the saves to all my bionicpups and I can't boot anymore, but nothing was really lost as I'm still setting up the computer to do its job when she ...

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@INSPIRON_E1505_USER :-

I think what you want is Fred's Redshift-portable . It not only does the colour temperature thing, but also has a true brightness control:-

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=573

Inspired by a former member called johnywhy , it kicked off this thread on the old ...

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@INSPIRON_E1505_USER :-

I think what you want is Fred's Redshift-portable . It not only does the colour temperature thing, but also has a true brightness control:-

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=573

Inspired by a former member called johnywhy , it kicked off this thread on the old ...

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@INSPIRON_E1505_USER - may be a simple way to set brightness (at own risk). Run the following in a terminal:

cat /sys/class/backlight/max_brightness

Assuming that gives you a number, to set half brightness, divide max_brightness by 2 & run:

echo (whatever half max is) > /sys/class/backlight ...

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

Some Minor tweak here and there, waiting on adding bluetooth and i think this laptop will be ready for the garage. My next project going to be crazy

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

rockedge wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:06 am
I have the exact same machine. I run F96-CE_4, KLV-Airedale and KLV-Spectr on it with good performance

you ever figure out how to do real screen brightness not color hue darkening. Trying to figure that out because that would save me battery time.

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i get connection bouncing all the time, i dont know if its because of old/outdated card (laptop i use is form 2006) or if there is a needed update. I'm not sure but i would bounce in and out of connection every few minutes especially when i first start up, then it would be fine for a few hours and ...

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im using opera, seems like a good good browser, i never used it before

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

did the bios update, only see a .25 increase for ram, unless im doing something wrong but its updated no issuses

IOS Vendor: Dell Inc.
Version: A17
Release Date: 06/13/2007

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz
Min/Max Speed: 1000/2333 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:1000 MHz, 1:2333 MHz
Core Count ...

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@INSPIRON_E1505_USER :-

Just FYI, you might want to consider updating the BIOS. It's not a 'must-do' by any means, but since you still have XP installed it should be much easier (it's an .exe file, y'see).

You're presently on A04 . The newest available for that E1505 is, apparently, A17 ...

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well from the responses i guess im not done yet completing my E1505 lol

- bluetooth module
- A04 BIOS update
- GPU radeon X1400 driver for linux (realized thats probably why conky is showing up like that, likes its falling off screen at the bottom, as if my desktop is not scaled right or fitted to ...

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

yeah i saw that, but i'm scared to do it, if something happens i heard it can brick your computer, i might be slightly more confident since the refresh....hmmmm ill check it this weekend

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

thanks guys and y'all accidentally taught me how to download PETs and open them :lol:

at first i thought something was wrong when i tried to open the PETs download y'all posted, it asked for my admin password, i swear i knew my password, so then i made sure by changing it in the terminal "passwd ...

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Back again to say i Finally did my upgrade:

BIOS Vendor: Dell Inc.
Version: A04
Release Date: 04/20/2006

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz
Min/Max Speed: 1000/2333 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:2333 MHz, 1:2333 MHz
Core Count: 2

Memory Allocation:
Total RAM: 3003 MB
Used RAM: 2793 MB
Free ...

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@INSPIRON_E1505_USER

The fastest CPU would be a T7600, but they sell for a premium price. Go for a T7200. almost as good and a lot cheaper. Your CPU Passmark v9 score will jump from 669 to 1167 and you'll see a big difference in performance. Get the ram up to 4gb and the 1505 will do really well ...

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INSPIRON_E1505_USER: "well i may have one question my bionicpup32 is only allowed 1gb of space how do i increase that on dual boot? just in case".

I'm not sure what you mean. See these posts: How Puppy Linux Works, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=55827#p55827 and How Puppy Linux ...

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

JUST AN UPDATE! yall can close the thread or keep it, the information helped me.

I just want to say i appreciate everyone and Bionicpup32, it took me awhile but i figured out things. So i reinstalled Windows XP to run my old games on my old laptop and i now have bionicpup32 capable of dual booting ...

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

i think the easiest way to get around the issues is to dual boot option, load up XP and see what happens, see if i can install it and keep pup as my main

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

i think it was confg, i downloaded and made my usb boot-able, my usb has been since formatted and used for other things

i went in and deleted everything and re-installed, i got a runtime error but it successfully installed and it works right from install when it says launch game, no issues, runs it ...

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

i think that might be where i mess up at too: "dont forget to save your changes" i may have miss that or did it incorrectly

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this got a bit a learning curve, the game worked though once i installed it. After turning off the computer and rebooting now im trying to figure out how to run it again, do i have to manually find the .exe and run it? but when i do that it runs to the title then error as it tries to execute. Once i ...

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@mikeslr

Hey i just want to say thanks for your help on that!! i really appreciate it, you taught me some stuff

INSPIRON_E1505_USER

SUPER LOST on trying to download wine 4.0.4 and install it, i downloaded the applmage etc, is bionicpup terminal commands different than other linux terminals?

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