I checked the lap-top. the CPU is mounted on some kind of board, and then the board is mounted on some kind of socket.. I am fairly new to hard-ware manipulations as this, but have worked before on archaic intel 8085 8086 chips....
and is this Athlon 150 Mhz 5x86 chip supported in Linux?? Thanks, Praveen Kamath On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2001 14:25, Kamath wrote: > > I think you are speaking something of what I am looking for here!! > > I have been thinking seriously about upgrading my lap-top, which has > > survived long... > > I have a "toy" 486 lap-top (486 DX4 75 Mhz to be precise) And how can I > > upgrade the processor etc on this please!! > > > > My laptop is a Compaq LTE Elite 4/75 CX > > > > any places where I can get info on how to upgrade this lap-top?? from 486 > > to say a reasonable speed pentium processor?? > > The main criteria is whether the CPU is socketed or soldered onto the > motherboard. If it's soldered in then there's nothing you can do. If it's > socketed then you can find a better CPU that fits the socket. > > AMD used to sell 5x86 CPUs that went in 486 sockets and were considerably > faster than 486 CPUs. You could probably get a 5x86 at 150MHz to fit in the > same socket which would be 4 times faster if you can find one. They haven't > been sold new for years so it'll take a bit of luck to find one. > > -- > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
