Hello, first post. Glad to be apart of this forum!
Have a question. Has anyone upgraded their CPU on their MX3231 Gateway Notebook? I'm looking to upgrade to a Pentium M and trying to figure out what's the max I can go. Currently the notebook has the Stock Celeron M 370 1.5Ghz. Ram is PC2 5200.
I have been eye-ing the Pentium M 760 CPU. Will this work? I have been google-ing for weeks and only came up with this... which scares me...
"I bought this lappy knowing it's a cheap machine but I was hoping I could make it half way decent by replacing the 1.5 Celeron M 370 w/400 FSB with a P-M 740 1.73 533 FSB. The chipset is a Via VN800 and it says its compatible up to 533 and 800. When I replaced the Celeron with the P-M, the cpu underclocks to 1.3 with a 400fsb and stuck at a 100 bus speed. The stock ram is DDR2 rated for 533 but it only runs at 266. When I replaced the ram with anything else, the computer will not boot up. Is there any way to force the fsb up to 533? I looked on the via page and I couldn't find anything. I don't know a whole lot about this but I would appreciate any help."
No replies to that post, it can be found at the link below.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=113634
Anyone have any experience with this or any advice?
Thanks!
Have a question. Has anyone upgraded their CPU on their MX3231 Gateway Notebook? I'm looking to upgrade to a Pentium M and trying to figure out what's the max I can go. Currently the notebook has the Stock Celeron M 370 1.5Ghz. Ram is PC2 5200.
I have been eye-ing the Pentium M 760 CPU. Will this work? I have been google-ing for weeks and only came up with this... which scares me...
"I bought this lappy knowing it's a cheap machine but I was hoping I could make it half way decent by replacing the 1.5 Celeron M 370 w/400 FSB with a P-M 740 1.73 533 FSB. The chipset is a Via VN800 and it says its compatible up to 533 and 800. When I replaced the Celeron with the P-M, the cpu underclocks to 1.3 with a 400fsb and stuck at a 100 bus speed. The stock ram is DDR2 rated for 533 but it only runs at 266. When I replaced the ram with anything else, the computer will not boot up. Is there any way to force the fsb up to 533? I looked on the via page and I couldn't find anything. I don't know a whole lot about this but I would appreciate any help."
No replies to that post, it can be found at the link below.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=113634
Anyone have any experience with this or any advice?
Thanks!
