DELL LATITUDE C600/C500
by: Revengsky Joseph D. Reyes (a.k.a rjdreyes)
My boss just gave me an old laptop Dell Latitude C600/C500, a Pentium III 1GHz, 512 SDRAM Memory, 80 GB HDD (I’ll give the technical specs later), but the problem is, there is no power adapter included. Anyways, to be sure it’s working, I go to the nearest store and talk to the computer technician, if they have a power adpater on Dell Latitude C600/C500.
Luckily, they have and we tested it, try to boot-up by power on and suprisingly, it still working, a quick boot up on the Windows XP!. I’m very glad it workout, and I bought the power laptop adapter for the price of (1,200 Philippine Pesos), but its alright for me (It’s brand new, no need to complain the price).
After I bought it, I managed to make a clean installation, using my old and unused Windows XP. I insert the disc, change the boot priority to dvdrom on bios, then make partition, then format and install Windows XP on the formatted partition drive (Why I did partition, because i’m going to install Ubuntu Linux on the other partition). After the installation, I download the latest Windows XP Service Pack 3 to update the Service Pack. I install other drivers needed, but all necessary drivers like sound, mic, video, mousepad and keyboard are automatically detected.
Technical Specifications (here it is ^_^)
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Processor PC Cards Memory Connectors Audio Video Display Keyboard Battery AC Adapter Physical Touch Pad Track Stick Modem Supported CD/DVD Formats
C600 – microprocessor Intel® Mobile Pentium® III microprocessor with Intel SpeedStep™ technology ( 1GHZ)
L2 cache for C600 – 256 KB
External bus – 100 MHz front side bus
Microprocessor data bus width – 64 bits
DRAM bus width – 64 bits
Address bus width – 32 bits
Flash EPROM – 4 Mb
AGP bus – 66 MHz
PCI bus – 33 MHz
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CardBus controller – Texas Instruments PCI 1420 CardBus controller
PC Card connectors – two Type II cards in any combination; one Type III card used only in the lower connector
The lower connector supports zoomed video (ZV) cards on computers running the Microsoft® Windows® 95 or Windows 98 operating system. The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 operating system does not support ZV.
Cards supported – 3.3-V and 5-V
Type II and Type III PC Cards (including memory cards)
ATA cards that emulate IDE hard-disk drives
I/O cards such asmodems, LAN cards, wireless LAN cards, and SCSI cards
PC Card connector size – 68 pins Data width (maximum):
PCMCIA – 16 bits
CardBus – 32 bits
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Architecture – SDRAM
Memory module sockets – two user accessible SODIMM sockets
Memory module capacities and type – 64-, 128-, and 256-MB; 3.3-V SDRAM SODIMMS
Standard RAM – 64-MB memory module
Maximum RAM – 512 MB
Memory clock speed – 100 MHz
Memory access time – CL2 or CL3 (Note: CL3 indicates a CAS latency of 3 clocks)
BIOS address – F000:0000-F000:FFFF
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Serial (DTE) – 16,550-compatible, 16-byte buffer connector
Parallel – unidirectional, bidirectional, or ECP connector
Video – VGA connector
PS/2 – mini-DIN connector
Infrared – port compatible with both IrDA Standard 1.1; (Fast IR) and IrDA Standard 1.0 (Slow IR)
Audio – microphone jack; headphones/speakers jack
USB – USB-compliant connector
Docking – connector for the C/Port Family Advanced Port; Replicator or C/Dock Family Expansion Station
S-Video – 7-pin mini-DIN connector (an S-Video to composite video Adapter is also included with the computer)
Mini-PCI – Type IIIA mini-PCI card slot
Modem – Optional factory-configurable RJ11 port for mini-PCI modem
Modem/Ethernet LAN – Optional factory-configurable RJ11/RJ45 combination port for mini-PCI modem/NIC
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Audio type – Sound Blaster (software emulation-capable)
Audio controller – ESS Maestro 3I
Stereo conversion – 16 bit (analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog)
Interfaces:
Internal – PCI bus/AC97; External microphone-in minijack; headphones/speakers minijack
Speakers – two 4-ohm speakers
Internal speaker amplifier – 1-W (minimum) to 1.5-W (maximum) channel into 4-ohms stereo
Controls – volume can be controlled through key combinations, application program menus, or the Speaker window in the Dell Control Center (Windows 95 only)
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Video type – 128-bit hardware-accelerated video support
Data bus – 2X AGP
Video controller – ATI Mobility M3
Video memory – 8.0 MB
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Table 1. Display Resolution, Colors, and Refresh Rates
| Resolution | Color Depth | External Monitor Available Refresh |
TV as Secondary Display Available Refresh |
| 640 x 480 (VGA) | 256 (8-bit) | 60, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 640 x 480 (VGA) | 65 K (16-bit) | 60, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 640 x 480 (VGA) | 4.2 B (32-bit) | 60, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 800 x 600 (SVGA) | 256 (8-bit) | 60, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 800 x 600 (SVGA) | 65 K (16-bit) | 60, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 800 x 600 (SVGA) | 4.2 B (32-bit) | 60, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1024 x 768 (XGA) | 256 (8-bit) | 60, 70, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1024 x 768 (XGA) | 65 K (16-bit) | 60, 70, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1024 x 768 (XGA) | 4.2 B (32-bit) | 60, 70, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1280 x 1024 (SXGA) | 256 (8-bit) | 60, 70, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1280 x 1024 (SXGA) | 65 K (16-bit) | 60, 70, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1280 x 1024 (SXGA) | 4.2 B (32-bit) | 60, 70, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1400 x 1050 (SXGA+) | 256 (8-bit) | 60, 70, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1400 x 1050 (SXGA+) | 65 K (16-bit) | 60, 70, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1400 x 1050 (SXGA+) | 4.2 B (32-bit) | 60, 70, 75, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1600 x 1200 (UGA) | 256 (8-bit) | 60 Hz, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1600 x 1200 (UGA) | 65 K (16-bit) | 60 Hz, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
| 1600 x 1200 (UGA) | 4.2 B (32-bit) | 60 Hz, 85 Hz | 60 Hz NTSC, 50 Hz PAL |
NOTE: Color depth is based on 256 colors for 8-bit, 65,536 colors for 16-bit, and 4,294,967,296 colors for 32-bit displays.
Table 2. Display Resolution and Color Depth Without DVD and 3D Running
| Primary/Secondary | Maximum Color Depth Possible (in bits) | |||||
| 640 x 480 | 800 x 600 | 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 1024 | 1400 x 1050 | 1600 x 1200 | |
| 640 x 480 (8 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| 800 x 600 (8 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| 1024 x 768 (8 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| 1280 x 1024 (8 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| 1400 x 1050 (8 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| 1600 x 1200 (8 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| 640 x 480 (16 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| 800 x 600 (16 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| 1024 x 768 (16 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| 1280 x 1024 (16 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 16 | 16 |
| 1400 x 1050 (16 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 16 | 16 |
| 1600 x 1200 (16 bit) | 32 | 32 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| 640 x 480 (32 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 16 |
| 800 x 600 (32 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 16 |
| 1024 x 768 (32 bit) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 24 | 16 | 16 |
| 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) | 32 | 32 | 24 | 16 | 16 | 8 |
| 1400 x 1050 (32 bit) | 32 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 1600 x 1200 (32 bit) | 8 | 8 | — | — | — | — |
Type for C600 computers – 14.1-inch XGA, active-matrix color (TFT); 14.1-inch SXGA+ active-matrix color (TFT)
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Number of keys – 87 (U.S., Canada, Korea, Thailand, and locations that use traditional Chinese); 88 (Europe); 90 (Japan)
Key travel – 2.7 mm + 0.3 mm/– 0.4 mm; (0.11 inch ± 0.016 inch)
Key spacing – 19.05 mm ± 0.3 mm (0.75 inch ± 0.012 inch)
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Type – 4-cell or 8-cell lithium ion (dual battery support is available via the modular bay)
Dimensions:
Height – 21.5 mm (0.83 inch)
Depth – 88.5 mm (3.48 inches)
Width – 139.0 mm (5.47 inches)
Weight – 8-cell: 0.39 kg (0.87 lb); 4-cell: 0.22 kg (0.49 lb)
Voltage – 14.8 VDC Capacity 8-cell: 59.0 WH; 4-cell: 26.5 WH
Charge time (approximate) – Computer on 2.5 hours; Computer off 1 hour
Battery life – hours minimum with 8-cell standard battery; 1-2 hours minimum with 4-cell optional battery
Life span (approximate) – 400 discharge/charge cycles
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Input voltage – 90 to 135 VAC and 164 to 264 VAC
Input current (maximum) – 1.5 A
Input frequency – 47 to 63 Hz
Output current – 4.5 A (maximum at 4-second pulse); 3.51 A (continuous)
Rated output voltage – 20.0 VDC
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Height – 38.7 mm (1.52 inches); Width – 319.5 mm (12.58 inches); Depth – 253.6 mm (9.98 inches)
Weight
14.1-inch XGAor SXGA+ with 4-cell battery
2.2 kg (4.9 lb) with travel module installed in modular bay
2.4 kg (5.4 lb) with standard diskette drive installed in modular bay
2.5 kg (5.7 lb) with CD-ROM drive installed in modular bay
14.1-inch XGAor SXGA+ with 8-cell battery
2.4 kg (5.3 lb) with travel module installed in modular bay
2.5 kg (5.7 lb) with standard diskette drive installed in modular bay
2.7 kg (6.0 lb) with CD-ROM drive installed in modular bay
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Interface – PS/2-compatible
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Interface PS/2-compatible
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Data/Fax Modem – Optional 3Com® 56K, V.90 Mini PCI Modem 556B.
Data/Fax and NIC Combination Modem – Optional 3Com 10/100 LAN + 56K, V.90 Mini PCI Modem.
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CD-rewritable (CD-RW) (only the CD-RW drives can write to this type of disc; the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives can read, but not write to, CD-RWs)
DVD-5 (the DVD-ROM drive supports the DVD-5 format)
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Related Entries :
Dell Latitude C600/C500 Images – by Jcyberinux
Installing Ubuntu on Dell Latitude C600/C500 – by Jcyberinux
