Change of CPU in a laptop - Possible?

[bisonator]

I recently aquired a Packard Bell Easy One notebook, it has a K6-2 450mhz CPU and supports PC100 RAM, the chipset is VIA MPV4 and i believe it supports upto K6-III 550mhz, if i was able to aquire a better CPU, would it work if fitted in the Socket? basically would the current BIOS allow it? also how hard is it to get inside the case of a laptop?

[SkyDog]

You usually can't swap CPU's in a laptop because they're often soldered to a board instead of socketed like in a desktop machine. I don't know about your particular system, though. I also don't know if the BIOS would recognize a K6-III.

Generally, it's not too hard to open up a laptop if you can identify which screws hold it together. Just be VERY careful to keep track of which screws go where, or you can break the system when reassembling it!!!

[rw96823]

if you opened the lappy, you'd find that the CPU doesn't look like the desktop versions (that's what I found on the IBM I opened up).

The IBM 600 I have cannot be upgraded, but the 600E version can have the chip unit (fan/sink/chip) changed, but from the looks of it, it can be a task for someone not too familiar with laptop configs (like me)

good luck if you can get it done!

[jagojago12]

I'm not sure about earlier laptop processors, but the Mobile Pentium 4-M and desktop Pentium 4 are physically identical.

[bisonator]

well, on the AMD website, the mobile chips look similar to the desktops, but with 'mobile' written on them somwhere.