Replacing laptop cpu

[Steven Rosenberg]

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:03 AM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an HP laptop with
> AMD Turion II X2 mobile processor RM-72 / 2.1 GHz CPU, Socket S1.
> It is now causing blue screens in windows and freezes
> linux (pclinuxos, knoppix, fedora live).
>
> I have run the x86 mem test for more than a day, and
> found no problems with the 4GB ram (2GB X 2).
>
> I am wondering why the memtest does not freeze????
> could it be that only one core is causing the problem?
>
> At any rate I wanted to replace it with
> AMD Turion II Ultra M660 TMM660DBO23GQ 2.7GHz Dual-Core Mobile CPU
> Processor, Socket S1
>
>
> Will I be running into any problems?
>


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.

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.

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.

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.

If you can swing it, I'd just get a new laptop.

--
Steven Rosenberg
http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog
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