VGN-S260P processor (mobo?) upgrade

More ram and faster drive are your best friends. If you must, stick with the Pentium and move to 750 or 760. And it is simply a good machine.

cheers ...

you can not upgrade the CPU on these models, the CPU is soldered on the motherboard itself.

Your best bet would to be getting a faster hard drive. That would help your performance and you can also increase your storage space.

No problem. Glad you did not waste your money and time taking the notebook apart for nothing. There are other versions of the S series motherboards that had faster CPU's built on them that you could get in the future if you really wanted a faster speed

This must vary by model. I pulled apart an s260p earlier this week and replaced a dead hard drive and noticed the processor was in a standard socket as I cleaned the thing and redid the thermal paste on the heat sink.

OP:

If you're brave and carefully disassemble it you can visually confirm or not whether it's replaceable.

Now that I think about it you may be able to just confirm it by popping the keyboard out.

edit - I'm going from memory but I don't think that any of the screws were holding the KB in place, but you may want to just take the bottom screws out JIC.

The plastic rest has two small nubs holding the keyboard in and you should be able to pry the keyboard out with a flathead screwdriver where the keyboard well meets the plastic along the top of the keyboard. Be careful pulling it out as there is a short ribbon cable tightly secured that comes from the keyboard and connects to the mobo. You may be able to peer in one of the gaps under the keyboard and see if the processor on yours is in a socket.



As for taking it apart:

There are about a dozen screws on the bottom (including one under the RAM cover).

Pop out the keyboard and undo there is a latch on the motherboard holding the ribbon in place. It is a 1mm X 15 mm~ plastic bar on the connector that needs to be turned to face up.

Underneath the keyboard there are a few holes looking down to the motherboard.

Youl'll need to disconnect two smaller white ribbon cables from the motherboard. Grip the cable where they meet the connector at the mobo and disconnect them. The top ribbon cable is for power/buttons and the bottom ribbon cable is for the touchpad.

There are also 2 speakers plugged in and they need to be unplugged. They are black and red wires going to small 2mmX2mm plugs and sockets and are located in the upper left gap. Use a flathead and these should unplug easily.

Take out about 5-6 screws that were located under the keyboard and push the screen all the way back and the plastic should easily pop off. If you're getting any resistance, doublecheck for screws.

You've now got it open and should be able to access the HD as well from here. As a a side note The LBA support is lacking on this sony as it won't show more than 130GB. I dropped a 250GB in the one I had but it was definately performing better despite not being able to use all the space.

It's a socket. There are 3 phillips screws holding the CPU heatsink on and then the socket locking mechanism needs a flathead to unlock once the heatsink is off. This lock is visible in the picture on the right side of the motherboard. It looks like a flathead screw.

^^ concurred

cheers ...

YES I made a mistake, I was thinking about the t series and tx series notebook. The S series can definitely be upgraded. So sorry