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presario laptop
I have a Compaq Presario 12xl223 laptop(600 MHz) that could use a little
more life. Opened it up and seen that the processor is a socket 370, nothing special about it. I have a 766 MHz processor on my shelf here that will drop right in, but the bios will not recognize it. is there another bios out there I can use to flash mine so I can have a few more options? The current bios is Phoenix 4.06, Any other suggestions? Thanks. |
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On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:43:22 GMT, "andrew2000"
wrote:: I have a Compaq Presario 12xl223 laptop(600 MHz) that could use a little more life. Opened it up and seen that the processor is a socket 370, nothing special about it. I have a 766 MHz processor on my shelf here that will drop right in, but the bios will not recognize it. is there another bios out there I can use to flash mine so I can have a few more options? The current bios is Phoenix 4.06, Any other suggestions? Thanks. Possibly because socket 370 is an Intel socket. Athlons are not pin compatible with Intel CPUs. ---------------------------------------- Thanks, MCheu |
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thanks, but it is a socket 370- 600mhz Celeron processor in the laptop now -
I want to replace it with a socket 370- 766 MHz Celeron processor. They are interchangeable as long as I can get the BIOS to accept the new one. "mcheu" wrote in message ... On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:43:22 GMT, "andrew2000" wrote:: I have a Compaq Presario 12xl223 laptop(600 MHz) that could use a little more life. Opened it up and seen that the processor is a socket 370, nothing special about it. I have a 766 MHz processor on my shelf here that will drop right in, but the bios will not recognize it. is there another bios out there I can use to flash mine so I can have a few more options? The current bios is Phoenix 4.06, Any other suggestions? Thanks. Possibly because socket 370 is an Intel socket. Athlons are not pin compatible with Intel CPUs. ---------------------------------------- Thanks, MCheu |
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"andrew2000" wrote in message news:kJILb.477$Eq.385@clgrps12...
"mcheu" wrote in message ... Possibly because socket 370 is an Intel socket. Athlons are not pin compatible with Intel CPUs. ---------------------------------------- Thanks, MCheu thanks, but it is a socket 370- 600mhz Celeron processor in the laptop now - I want to replace it with a socket 370- 766 MHz Celeron processor. They are interchangeable as long as I can get the BIOS to accept the new one. You have to admit, my conclusion wasn't unreasonable given the name of the newsgroup you're posting in and that you never mentioned what CPU you were going to replace the chip with. I doubt that you're going to be able to force a BIOS update. Laptops are notorious for being unupgradeable (exception being recent ones by AlienWare), and Compaqs being the worst of the bunch. Since Compaq pretty much lobotomizes the BIOS in its machines (I own one of their notebooks), one option is to use a program to sidestep the BIOS Setup. Most times, the missing BIOS options aren't missing, they're just hidden. This site details some of these programs: http://www.sysopt.com/biosmod.html Of course, this may prove to be a problem if you can't get the notebook to boot. If it's just that the wrong CPU ID is being displayed during bootup, but the system's otherwise working, count yourself lucky. Run a benchmark and see if you're getting any improvement. If the BIOS doesn't have an ID for that chip, you're not going to get it to display the right name. |
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Thanks for the info, I will give the site a try. I have been looking for a
site like this for a while. I appreciate the help. Andrew "MCheu" wrote in message om... "andrew2000" wrote in message news:kJILb.477$Eq.385@clgrps12... "mcheu" wrote in message ... Possibly because socket 370 is an Intel socket. Athlons are not pin compatible with Intel CPUs. ---------------------------------------- Thanks, MCheu thanks, but it is a socket 370- 600mhz Celeron processor in the laptop now - I want to replace it with a socket 370- 766 MHz Celeron processor. They are interchangeable as long as I can get the BIOS to accept the new one. You have to admit, my conclusion wasn't unreasonable given the name of the newsgroup you're posting in and that you never mentioned what CPU you were going to replace the chip with. I doubt that you're going to be able to force a BIOS update. Laptops are notorious for being unupgradeable (exception being recent ones by AlienWare), and Compaqs being the worst of the bunch. Since Compaq pretty much lobotomizes the BIOS in its machines (I own one of their notebooks), one option is to use a program to sidestep the BIOS Setup. Most times, the missing BIOS options aren't missing, they're just hidden. This site details some of these programs: http://www.sysopt.com/biosmod.html Of course, this may prove to be a problem if you can't get the notebook to boot. If it's just that the wrong CPU ID is being displayed during bootup, but the system's otherwise working, count yourself lucky. Run a benchmark and see if you're getting any improvement. If the BIOS doesn't have an ID for that chip, you're not going to get it to display the right name. |
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