TechnoExpress.Net: Repairing, Upgrading and OverClocking of Laptop and Notebook CPUs
Repairing, Upgrading and OverClocking of Laptop and Notebook CPUs
Do you have to replace, upgrade or overclock the CPU of your laptop or notebook?
Here are links to free do-it-yourself instructions.
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Ultimate hardware upgrade tutorial: this tutorial is for those lucky notebook owners who are considering upgrading, or replacing internal hardware parts inside the notebook. While this notebook is no longer manufacutred, there will be some who are considering upgrading the hardware to run Vista, or for those who have just purchased one at bargin prices! To perform the RAM, HDD and CPU upgrades, you will need a philips screwdriver, a credit card, and possibly some inspiration.
RAM upgrade, hard disk upgrade and AMD K6-2+ CPU overclocking as well as underclocking instructions (with jumper settings and voltage table). Battery replacement (in German).
This notebook looks quite old due to the rapidly changing of semiconductor's world, upgrading some components can extend its life for at least a few years. How about spending about $75 and getting a decent performance from your old laptop sound to you? To boost the performance, we have to max these two main factors. For memory, it might be a bit hard to get a good deal since this is DDR-333, not currently DDR2. For the CPU, in this case, the only choice you have is upgrading to Turion64 series, e.g. AMD Turion MT-37.
How to replace your existing 533FSB CPU with a 400FSB CPU. A hands on guide with pictures for doing the pinmod and applying thermal compound to the GPU.
Want better performance from your laptop? The conventional wisdom has long held that you should simply buy a new one. You can put such conventional wisdom aside: upgrading a laptop may not be for the timid or the impatient, but if you're handy with a screwdriver, and the sight of a circuit board doesn't scare you, an upgrade can be a far more affordable solution. Upgrades covered: RAM from 1GB to 2GB, HDD from a 5400RPM, 120GB drive to a 7200RPM, 200GB model, miniPCI wireless card from 802.11b to 802.11a/b/g, BlueTooth card added, optical drive, LCD screen with better resolution or matte instead of glossy, CPU from a 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo to a 2GHz Core 2 Duo T7200, graphics card nVidia 7300 with a more powerful ATI X1400.
How to upgrade the notebook's CPU, replacing the Yonah T2400 Core Duo processor with a Merom T7600 Core 2 Duo. The general description of the upgrade should also apply to the DELL Latitude D820, a notebook almost identical to the M65, aside for the GPU. The upgrade itself was really no trouble at all, thanks to the service manual and the helpful numbering of screws, especially for the heatsink.
How to cure overheating problems which caused a shut down everytime an application was started more demanding than Mozilla Firefox. Some under the skin dust-cleaning of the heatsink, reattaching the CPU and applying a fresh set of cooling paste fixed the issue.
A tutorial for the reduction of temperature in your laptop. It involves three main steps and about $20 worth of material. This instructions will help especially if your laptop keeps shutting down unexpectedly. It explains how to determine that temperature is causing the problem actually. It shows how to take apart the beast, how to remove dust from the heatsink and the vent and how to applicate thermal compound to the processor.
Completely take apart this laptop to replace the CPU with a newer model of AMD Turion 64, MT-37--2.0GHz 1MB L2 Cache--to replace the old one, MT-28 which is 1.6GHz 512kB L2 Cache. Taking all part apart is not that hard, the hardest part is to know how to detach the hinge cover and once you knew; that's it, what you really have to do is to know where all the screws were and put them back in the right positions.
Shared knowledge: a take apart picture gallery and disassembly guide. Cleaning the fan from dirt and remounting the CPU using thermal conductive paste. Upgrading the hard drive. Replacement of CD/DVD, LCD video driver board and BIOS battery. Fixing a broken power adapter jack.
A complete step-by-step upgrade tutorial: processor (Intel-Tillamook to AMD K6-II 400 Mhz or better to K6-III), memory (128MB 66Mhz SODIMM), hard disk (30GB), optical drive (TEAC CD-ROM to DVD-ROM Torisan DRD-U424 and TFT display replacement (in German).
This tutorial covers upgrading components and parts of the laptop and details of the technical process involved in installing them. It details several upgrades: 1. RAM: 1GB DDR 400 (PC3200) in 2x512 2. CPU: AMD Sempron 3100+ (1.8ghz) 3. Internal Wireless 4. Internal Bluetooth 5. Hard Drive: 60GB 7200RPM with 8MB cache 6. Optical Drive: QSI DVD+-RW SDW-082S 7. Heatsinks and Cooling.
How to replace a desktop CPU (Celeron 2,6 GHz) with a mobile CPU (Mobile Pentium 4 1,7 GHz). An illustrated take apart and upgrade tutorial (in German).
This Upgrade guide for the Sony VAIO S series of notebooks explains how to upgrade the following components: Hard Drive upgrade, CPU Upgrade using Arctic Silver gel coolant, CD/DVD Drive upgrade guide.
Clean a laptop heatsink: If your notebook is experiencing Blue Screen of Death - BSODs or complete shut-downs then the culprit be a dusty, dirty CPU and heatsink. This means it's time to clean it and gain back stability. Just how to do it is what this guide is all about.
Overclocking picture guide for laptops using a 400 MHz FSB CPU. By inserting a copper wire in 2 holes into the 479 socket, the motherboard will bring the Front-Side-Bus up to 533 MHz, running the CPU at 133% over spec. In total this gives an 25% increase without extra cooling needed. This mod takes about 10 minutes!
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