<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:03 AM, jd1008 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jd1008@gmail.com" target="_blank">jd1008@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2is" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">I have an HP laptop with<br>
AMD Turion II X2 mobile processor RM-72 / 2.1 GHz CPU, Socket S1.<br>
It is now causing blue screens in windows and freezes<br>
linux (pclinuxos, knoppix, fedora live).<br>
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I have run the x86 mem test for more than a day, and<br>
found no problems with the 4GB ram (2GB X 2).<br>
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I am wondering why the memtest does not freeze????<br>
could it be that only one core is causing the problem?<br>
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At any rate I wanted to replace it with<br>
AMD Turion II Ultra M660 TMM660DBO23GQ 2.7GHz Dual-Core Mobile CPU Processor, Socket S1<br>
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Will I be running into any problems?</div></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It's difficult to tell what exactly is causing your problem. At some level, laptops are disposable computers. It's hard to really "fix" them. They are hard to disassemble and reassemble. At least on a build-it-yourself desktop you can replace the motherboard without too much pain and suffering and get an overall performance boost at the same time.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But laptops? They're getting harder to work on, not easier. I got one for my daughter that was really cheap, and one of the things contributing to the cheapness was the lack of a replaceable battery. You can't pop the battery out. There is no access to the RAM, hard drive or battery unless you take the thing apart completely.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It's not like there was some kind of laptop-repair nirvana of years past. Once I had to replace a dead hard drive in an Apple iBook G4, and with detailed instructions it took about three hours.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Other laptops allow swapping of a hard drive or RAM in minutes. But even one of my older Toshiba laptops (say 12 years old at this point) didn't offer easy access to the hard drive.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you can swing it, I'd just get a new laptop.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Steven Rosenberg<br><a href="http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog" target="_blank">http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog</a><br><a href="http://blogs.dailynews.com/click" target="_blank">http://blogs.dailynews.com/click</a><br></div></div>
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