Crappy Celeron

Tom Dunne

Question: Crappy Celeron 2.8Ghz socket 478 - can this be replaced with a "normal" P4 @ 2.4Ghz or 2.8Ghz?

Is it just as simple as pulling out the Celeron and inserting the P4? Or is it more involved?

There does not seem to be any options in the BIOS regarding FSB or anything.

Thanks,

TD.

Jammer

what motherboard do u have?

parsi

Depends on the motherboard I imagine - I got an epox minime (ex-300s) and its motherboard happily supports celerons and p4s... the prob is I can't imagine anyone lending you a p4 to test !

Tom Dunne

Oh crap, no idea of the motherboard. How do I go about checking?

I should point out that it is a HP laptop and that when it was being purchased, there was the option of chosing a P4 or a Celeron, this is why I would not be surprised if the motherboard supported the P4.

Not one iota of info on the HP website for this. It's all "how to I connect to the internet" or "How do I switch off a screen saver".

parsi

I think that google may be a better friend to you than boards in this case :-) Laptop chips are different beasts to their desktop brethern (heat output and all that).. I suggest a visit to Hps sie (if you haven't dome that) or maybe wait tilllater when someone who has more than half a clue might be around...

here are a few ideas:
http://forums.hostmatters.com/archive/index.php/t-10538.html

the_syco

Look for "cpuz.exe" @ google, or something. Run it, and it'll tell you what mainboard/motherboard you have. And then go from there. If you know little about such matters, I'd advise you to goto somewhere you trust, once you know it can be done, and get them to do it for you.

StRiKeR

tom dunne wrote:

Not one iota of info on the HP website for this. It's all "how to I connect to the internet" or "How do I switch off a screen saver".

its kinda out of topic but just found that funny! if anyone had bought a HP and thats the only system they have and not knowing how to connect to the internet, how are they going to read the how to??whats the point having that there if they are reading it, they already online!

HP is very helpfull! lol

Chardee MacDennis

this may sound a bit dumb but does socket 478 not support most pentium 4 chips? like socket a is for amd chips?

Tom Dunne

parsi wrote:

Laptop chips are different beasts to their desktop brethern (heat output and all that)

You know what, from what I have looked at so far, it seems that in my case, this is not so. I know what you are talking about - the chip package and the 'M' versions and all that, but it looks like this is a bog standard Celeron that can go into a PC or a laptop. For example, there are no power saving features on the laptop, I have a work laptop with the whole centrino thing and that has all the power saving bells and whistles.

Now, I could be corrected on that, but this is just from my initial findings.

the_syco: Thanks for the name of the program, I'll give it a try. As for actually doing it, I have no problem doing it myself, I am really at the stage of figuring out if it can actually be done.

Call_me_al: No, I don't think it is a dumb question, in fact, that is what I am trying to figure out.

Jammer

check out the table here: http://www.hexus.co.uk/content/reviews/review_print.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD03MjA=

Notice the FSB is different , Hypter Threading support and all that....
If you could find out the chipset it would help...865/875 wud do you

Tom Dunne

From CPUZ:

Motherboard manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Motherboard model: 089C, 31.36
BIOS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
BIOS revision: F.24
BIOS release date: 06/30/2004
Chipset: ATI ID5833 rev. 2
Southbridge: ATI ID434C rev. 0

Yeah, Jammer, I saw that already in my numerous searches on the interweb. If I knew then what I know now....

Then again, compatability is mentioned several times, maybe it might just be possible.