i may have introduced a short in the wireless compartment that took the video out. i actually think that this may have been what happened with the other machine, but this one came back with a reseat. although, i'm also interested in pointing out that i'm perhaps getting a suspicious level of activity in these wireless compartments, aren't i? once i get my phone setup, i may take the wireless out of that machine. and, i'm considering building the new one without wireless at all. certainly, i'll need to make sure to check it actually has an rj-45 in it, at least - that's something i hadn't thought of. i know that some of the higher end models no longer ship with physical ethernet connections.

it seems like ibm is allowing users to design their own laptops. that's what i actually want. you can take out the webcam, too - and your locked down bios, and your recovery partition, and your windows 10...

it might even cost less when i'm done.

but, i've got the f2 page up. what i wanted was the product information so i could see what the maximum ram configuration is. i have one samsung chip in it, pc2-6400. should i just double that, or can i upgrade both of them?