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Athlon CPU Upgrade in Compaq Laptop
Hello All,
I have a Compaq Presario 700 series laptop. It currently has a Duron 1Ghz in it. I would like to upgrade the CPU. The higest end of this notebook line (Same Mobo) has an Athlon 1.4Ghz CPU in it. As far as I can tell from LOTS of research is that the Mobo can handle 100/133. I'm ASSUMING that it should be okay for an AMD 35 Watt Mobile Athlon XP 2400+, at 266 MHz FSB. Or am I missing something? P.S - please don't tell me that Compaq laptops are crappy. This I already know. I'm keeping it anyway... it was FREE! Thanks, Karl North |
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As far as I can tell from LOTS of research is that the Mobo can handle
100/133. I'm ASSUMING that it should be okay for an AMD 35 Watt Mobile Athlon XP 2400+, at 266 MHz FSB. Or am I missing something? Yes an Athlon XP 2400+ will run on that speed of bus. The question that needs to be answered is will the bios on your Compaq recognize the Athlon XP? Not sure if Compaq will be much help but maybe they have some info on that area. They most likely will want to sell you and overpriced upgrade. Hope it works out. DougH |
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DougH wrote:
As far as I can tell from LOTS of research is that the Mobo can handle 100/133. I'm ASSUMING that it should be okay for an AMD 35 Watt Mobile Athlon XP 2400+, at 266 MHz FSB. Or am I missing something? Yes an Athlon XP 2400+ will run on that speed of bus. The question that needs to be answered is will the bios on your Compaq recognize the Athlon XP? Even if it doesn't, it should run it at the default multiplier and FSB. Then all you're missing is the description on boot up... Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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If it does that's fine. My only experience with upgrading a cpu that wasn't
specifically mentioned in the motherboard specs was back in the 486 days. I replaced a 486 33MHz with an AMD 5x86 Pentium compatible and the system wouldn't boot. I had to upgrade the bios chip itself for it to work. No bios flashing at that time either. DougH "Ben Pope" wrote in message ... DougH wrote: As far as I can tell from LOTS of research is that the Mobo can handle 100/133. I'm ASSUMING that it should be okay for an AMD 35 Watt Mobile Athlon XP 2400+, at 266 MHz FSB. Or am I missing something? Yes an Athlon XP 2400+ will run on that speed of bus. The question that needs to be answered is will the bios on your Compaq recognize the Athlon XP? Even if it doesn't, it should run it at the default multiplier and FSB. Then all you're missing is the description on boot up... Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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