I changed my laptop's processor, now it's even more laggy
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When i replaced my laptop's Pentium M 1.70GHz processor with a 1.83GHz one , my laptop started being veeeeery laggy. I tried re-installing, it didn't change. What should i do?
Windows says Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz 1.54GHz :confused:
I changed the fan too, so it's not overheating.
I can't change the old processor back, because someone put something sticky on the pins :saddowns:
[editline]8th February 2011[/editline]
My father said that the laptop's BIOS may not support better processors.
[editline]8th February 2011[/editline]
The laptop is a Thinkpad T42
lol pentium m
OP has no idea what he is doing and should probably just buy something new, since its probably not worth it anyways..
Wrong FSB, multiplier or RAM i suppose, since it's gimped in one way or another.
Or just BIOS doesn't support it.
Why the hell did you change it in the first place, before triple checking if it would work correctly??
And you wont even notice the diferrence annyway.
Annyways downlod CPU z and check your FSB:RAM Ratio and download Speedfan or something to check your temperatures.
Wrong multiplier I do believe.
Try manually setting everything in the bios.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;27950632]Try manually setting everything in the bios.[/QUOTE]
He's running a laptop. I highly doubt he'd be able to change anything other than the boot order.
Also OP, I'm having a guess you update from a Pentium M 1.7 to a Pentium M 1.8? Please tell us what you exactly had before and what you upgraded to that is in this list: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_M_microprocessors[/url]
I also want you to access your BIOS and list what settings are currently being used, or you could do:
[QUOTE=Van-man;27931300]Wrong FSB, multiplier or RAM i suppose, since it's gimped in one way or another.
Or just BIOS doesn't support it.
Why the hell did you change it in the first place, before triple checking if it would work correctly??[/QUOTE]
This.
[QUOTE=taipan;27931811]And you wont even notice the diferrence annyway.
Annyways downlod CPU z and check your FSB:RAM Ratio and download Speedfan or something to check your temperatures.[/QUOTE]
And this.
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Ok so far I'm finding more information about the CPU your laptop model used to have, and it's a "Dothan" (90 nm) [url=http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27588]Pentium M 1.70GHz processor[/url]. My bet is OP upgraded that to a [url=http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27593]Pentium M 750 1.87 GHz processor[/url]. I'm willing to wager that Osku1234's laptops mobo is only willing to allow a baseclock of 440 out of the CPUs 533 with 14x multi, so in practicality he just downgraded due to hardware limitations. Still going to wait though until he posts CPU-Z, FSB:RAM and temps statistics, but so far I think what I said seems most likely. If that's the case, then there's nothing he can do about it other than re-use his previous CPU if it's still possible for now.
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