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Inspiron 1100 Processor Upgrade?

post #1 of 6
7/1/05 at 6:38pm
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I have a 2.00GHz Celeron inspiron 1100, 640Mb of ram, and I'd like to pick up a bit more speed. Does anyone know the fastest P4 chip that will run successfully, or have suggestions in general for a processor upgrade?
Thanks,
Adam
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post #2 of 6
7/7/05 at 1:08pm
Honestly its not worth the money. Considering how much an inspiron 1200 goes for its senseless buying a new cpu that will probabaly give you no more than 30% of an upgrade. The money you spend on a cpu should go towards a new system that has a new everything from memory to cpu type and etc. If your having performance issues you should ask us what type cause a 2ghz celeron is still a great cpu even for gaming you might want to consider more ram since a videocard upgrade is out of the question for the i1100
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post #3 of 6
4/19/07 at 6:30pm
Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I'm trying to do exactly what the OP wanted to do. I swapped in a Pentium 2.6 ghz desktop proc but I can't get the laptop to boot--the leds at the top of the keyboard flash 10 times, the cpu fan spins up, then it all goes dead.

I've heard this can be done; is there anything special I'm forgetting to do? I've tryed all sorts of plug-in-battery-out combinations... Is there a CMOS jumper somewhere in there that I can zero out? I've heard the CMOS battery is soldered to the board but I'm not ready to strip the laptop completely down to parade rest in order to unsolder and resolder that battery just yet...

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post #4 of 6
4/28/07 at 12:50am
Only certain CPUs with certain FSB will work on the 1100 do you happen to have the CPUs model number handy? Also if you know the FSB that helps too.
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post #5 of 6
4/28/07 at 8:41pm
Well I've got two CPU's, a 2.4Ghz and a 2.66Ghz P4 533 FSB. I'm at work so I can't tell you the model numbers at the moment, but it was my understanding that these procs will work at 400mhz fsb?

Thanks for the reply, I'll post the model numbers when I get home, unless you've got a link of a chart or something that shows what works and what doesn't.
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post #6 of 6
4/29/07 at 2:12am
I Generally recommend using a pentium4M CPU but Desktop based ones work fine have you tested these CPUs on another machine to ensure they work? Also have you updated to the most recent BIOS update? In one such update allows the use of newer (high freq CPUs) which would stop you from using the 2.66ghz CPU.
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