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Plug in processor?

  • 21-03-2010 4:26pm
    #1
    TheGobb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭


    I have an old laptop and the processor is a celeron and has just about had it. As the laptop is fine otherwise it occurred to me it would be grea t if you could get a processor that you could plug and play and that would takes over from the inbuilt processor. Is there anything like that available?


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  • #2
    IrishTonyO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭IrishTonyO


    You can replace the processor in practically all laptops, what make and model is it?


  • #3
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    you'll need to replace the processor. you'll also need one that's compatiable with your motherboard. my brother tried installing a newish enough processor in his ancient (9 years old counts as ancient, doesn't it? :P) laptop and it wouldn't work.


  • #4
    Redisle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭Redisle


    What makes you think the processor is gone? The way your talking it sounds like the computer has slowed down.. if the processor was gone it wouldn't even switch on, and it is very difficult to diagnose a dead processor when it could just as easily be the mainboard. Only way to know is to try it in a mainboard known to be working..

    If it is just running slowly then the main thing you could do to get it back a bearable speed (Which is kind of hard with a celeron in the first place) would be to reinstall windows, you should have got disks with the laptop first day to enable you to do this.


  • #5
    TheGobb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭TheGobb


    IrishTonyO wrote: »
    You can replace the processor in practically all laptops, what make and model is it?
    compaq presario


  • #6
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    TheGobb wrote: »
    I have an old laptop and the processor is a celeron and has just about had it. As the laptop is fine otherwise it occurred to me it would be grea t if you could get a processor that you could plug and play and that would takes over from the inbuilt processor. Is there anything like that available?

    Probably not worth doing anything with, laptops aren't really upgradable. Its probably time to get a new laptop, good news is there's great value out there at the moment.


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