If you are a Casio E-125 user, you will know that before Lee Xiaoming came up with his hardware hack, no one knew how to overclock the E-125's NEC Vr4122 processor. Thanks to him, we now can overclock the Vr4122 to 180MHz and even 204MHz! Xiaoming has also come up with various other guides for Cassiopeia Pocket PCs.

Recently, we received Xiaoming's full permission to translate one of his latest guides - how to convert the Casio E-125's CompactFlash slot to a PCMCIA slot! With this guide, Casio E-125 users will be able to make use of PCMCIA cards so there's no longer a need to buy a new Pocket PC with a PCMCIA slot just to make use of those cards.

Although Chai poured hours into the translation, the differences between the Chinese language and English forced us to do some rather liberal editing to make the text read properly. Don't worry though. Only the flow of the text was changed, the contents remain the same. I hope you will find this edited translation easy to read and follow.

Adrian Wong
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PS. Note that we will not be held responsible for any problem or loss that results from reading and/or following this translation. We have translated this guide to the best of our ability. But if you notice any mistake, please do let me know ASAP. Thanks! :)

The iPAQ Advantage?

What are the advantages of the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC? I can think of three :-

1. Very cool exterior design (before the paint fades, of course)
2. Powerful processor
3. You can use a PCMCIA sleeve

But Casio E-125 users don't have to envy them anymore because you can overclock your E-125 Pocket PC. And now, you can also build your own PCMCIA slot converter. With such a slot, you can use most of the 3.3V PCMCIA devices like network cards, modems, CDPD cards, GSM cards, GPS cards and so on.

It started with me wondering, why is there a CompactFlash to PCMCIA adapter but no PCMCIA to CompactFlash adapter?

And after experiencing the E-125's USB connection, I could no longer endure my E-115's slow synchronization again. From then onwards, I decided to create something that will enable my E-115 to use my PCMCIA network card.