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Satellite 5205-S703 CPU Upgrade?

post #1 of 9
11/27/06 at 10:02pm
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Hi,

I have the Toshiba Satellite 5205-S703 with the 2 GHZ P4-M processor, and was wondering if this can be ugraded, and from where?

I believe I saw someone in this forum who had replaced his 2.0GHZ with a 2.6 GHZ CPU, but wasn't sure where, and from where he got it.

The fastest I've come across on eBay is a 2.4GHZ P4-M, but that bit of increase hardly seems worth it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Mobile-P4-...QQcmdZViewItem

I saw this one 2.6GHZ, and it's a socket 478 which is what I think I need, but not sure, and it doesn't say "-M".

http://cgi.ebay.com/Pentium-4-P4-2-6...QQcmdZViewItem

Would any of the new dual-cores be compatible?

Thanks,
Marcel
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post #2 of 9
11/28/06 at 4:37am
The CPU must be a Pentium 4-M

A regular Pentium 4 and any other CPU that is not specifically a Pentium 4-M will *not* work in a 5205.
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post #3 of 9
11/28/06 at 4:01pm
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Do you know where I can go to get the processor I need?

I searched with Google but don't seem to be getting much.

Thank,
Marcel
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post #4 of 9
11/28/06 at 11:58pm
I have no direst experience with your model, but usually with laptops, you can not go any faster than the fastest CPU that your combination of motherboard and BIOS supports. I think there are no faster 5205 models except the S705 and that uses a different BIOS.
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post #5 of 9
11/29/06 at 10:26am
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Originally Posted by MDevoe
Hi,

I have the Toshiba Satellite 5205-S703 with the 2 GHZ P4-M processor, and was wondering if this can be ugraded, and from where?

I believe I saw someone in this forum who had replaced his 2.0GHZ with a 2.6 GHZ CPU, but wasn't sure where, and from where he got it.

The fastest I've come across on eBay is a 2.4GHZ P4-M, but that bit of increase hardly seems worth it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Mobile-P4-...QQcmdZViewItem

I saw this one 2.6GHZ, and it's a socket 478 which is what I think I need, but not sure, and it doesn't say "-M".

http://cgi.ebay.com/Pentium-4-P4-2-6...QQcmdZViewItem

Would any of the new dual-cores be compatible?

Thanks,
Marcel

I got both my 2.5 and 2.6GHz cores from eBay. Although quite rare, the 2.6GHz cores do turn up from time to time on eBay. You just have to be patient.

For more info on upgrading the 5200/5205 CPUs check out this old thread

http://www.notebookforums.com/post1255031.html
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post #6 of 9
11/30/06 at 1:42am
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Originally Posted by Splat
I got both my 2.5 and 2.6GHz cores from eBay. Although quite rare, the 2.6GHz cores do turn up from time to time on eBay. You just have to be patient.

For more info on upgrading the 5200/5205 CPUs check out this old thread

http://www.notebookforums.com/post1255031.html

Thanks for that.

It looks like the SL6WZ is the one to get,

http://processorfinder.intel.com/det...px?sSpec=SL6WZ

But is there any reason that it wouldn't work in the 5205-S703 vs the -S705,
as richk suggested? Is the BIOS really that much different between these two models?
And if so, why would it care?

I do have the latest v1.50 BIOS upgrade if that's anything. ;-)

Just to check, does your monitor screen suddenly dim to about 70% brightness 10 seconds after power on, until it finally gets to the Desktop before it goes back to full brightness? If so, this may mean similar BIOS's.

I've always wondered why it does this, and always thought it was a setting in the BIOS. But unfortunately the only way to manipulate the BIOS in this model is "only" from the Desktop with Toshiba's own Hardware Setup utility in the Control Panel, and there's nothing in there for that setting (the one in the Power Options only works within Windows). This makes it rather annoying when I want to boot from a CD, for example, with Knoppix. Using Knoppix on a dim screen is no fun. :-(

Thanks,
Marcel
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post #7 of 9
11/30/06 at 4:39am
What happens to the lights in your car when you are starting up? I suspect th same thing happens here. Mine does it too.
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post #8 of 9
11/30/06 at 6:36pm
My 5205's backlight always turns on at full brightness and stays at full brightness even as it finishes booting into WinXP under AC power. But if I disconnect the AC and then power it up running on battery power, the backlight comes on at full brightness then dims about 10 seconds later.

My 5205-S119 is running its factory original v1.4 BIOS.
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post #9 of 9
12/2/06 at 8:02am
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Originally Posted by MDevoe
Thanks for that.

It looks like the SL6WZ is the one to get,

http://processorfinder.intel.com/det...px?sSpec=SL6WZ

But is there any reason that it wouldn't work in the 5205-S703 vs the -S705,
as richk suggested? Is the BIOS really that much different between these two models?
And if so, why would it care?

I do have the latest v1.50 BIOS upgrade if that's anything. ;-)

Just to check, does your monitor screen suddenly dim to about 70% brightness 10 seconds after power on, until it finally gets to the Desktop before it goes back to full brightness? If so, this may mean similar BIOS's.

I've always wondered why it does this, and always thought it was a setting in the BIOS. But unfortunately the only way to manipulate the BIOS in this model is "only" from the Desktop with Toshiba's own Hardware Setup utility in the Control Panel, and there's nothing in there for that setting (the one in the Power Options only works within Windows). This makes it rather annoying when I want to boot from a CD, for example, with Knoppix. Using Knoppix on a dim screen is no fun. :-(

Thanks,
Marcel

I also have an older 5200-801 which has a GeForce Go 460 on-board which I believe is simliar to the 5205-S703. It also has BIOS v1.50, and runs the 2.5GHz CPU without issue. The dimming of the display during boot up is something Toshiba "tweaked" into the BIOS in their later updates for this particular mainboard. Curiously they fixed this "tweak" for the Geforce Go 5600 based mainboards from v1.30
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