Replacing laptop cpu

[jd1008]

On 05/23/2015 04:44 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:03 AM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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.
>
Well,
the cpu is easily removable. It is under the heat sink
which is also easily removable. This laptop is indeed
very easy to open up and put back together.

I am waiting for a couple of CPU and laptop gurus (they create
unbranded laptops), to get back to me about this question.

Thanx.

JD