Can a cpu upgrade in a laptop harm the mobo?

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Kasper

if i change the processor in my laptop from a celeron to a mobile
celeron (same speed, same id-signature) and the upgrade fails, will
any of the parts be ruined, (motherboard, cpu ) or will it just "not
work"? Will i be able to put the old cpu back if the upgrade fails?
I had very good help in the groups, but i need to know this final
thing before i do it...

mu motive: i want to use less power/generate less heat/make less fan-
noise!

Acer travelmate 240 with Celeron 2.40 MHz (SL6VU - id signature 0F29)
chipset 852 GME
same cpu but Mobile (SL75J - id signature 0F29))

Kasper
 
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Ed Medlin

Kasper said:
if i change the processor in my laptop from a celeron to a mobile
celeron (same speed, same id-signature) and the upgrade fails, will
any of the parts be ruined, (motherboard, cpu ) or will it just "not
work"? Will i be able to put the old cpu back if the upgrade fails?
I had very good help in the groups, but i need to know this final
thing before i do it...

mu motive: i want to use less power/generate less heat/make less fan-
noise!

Acer travelmate 240 with Celeron 2.40 MHz (SL6VU - id signature 0F29)
chipset 852 GME
same cpu but Mobile (SL75J - id signature 0F29))

Kasper
If that is your only laptop and you need to have it.......I would suggest
leaving it as is. It doesn't take much of a mistake to render it useless. It
isn't just replacing the CPU that is tough, you need to make sure that the
cooling solution that your particular laptop uses is reinstalled correctly
and also not to damage anything in the area. I have worked on PCs for, what
seems, forever...:). I just don't get into laptops just for the reason that
it is so easy to screw them up no matter how careful I am.


Ed
 
K

Kasper

If that is your only laptop and you need to have it.......I would suggest
leaving it as is. It doesn't take much of a mistake to render it useless.It
isn't just replacing the CPU that is tough, you need to make sure that the
cooling solution that your particular laptop uses is reinstalled correctly
and also not to damage anything in the area. I have worked on PCs for, what
seems, forever...:). I just don't get into laptops just for the reason that
it is so easy to screw them up no matter how careful I am.

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Right... I have removed the cpu and reinstalled it before, in the
hope that
applying new thermal-paste would help on the fan-noise... - it didnt,
but the computer
has worked ok so the physical process is not whats worrying me. its
whether a different cpu can screw up anything electronical on the
mainboard...

Kasper
 
J

JAD

If that is your only laptop and you need to have it.......I would suggest
leaving it as is. It doesn't take much of a mistake to render it useless. It
isn't just replacing the CPU that is tough, you need to make sure that the
cooling solution that your particular laptop uses is reinstalled correctly
and also not to damage anything in the area. I have worked on PCs for, what
seems, forever...:). I just don't get into laptops just for the reason that
it is so easy to screw them up no matter how careful I am.

Ed- Skjul tekst i anførselstegn -

- Vis tekst i anførselstegn -

Right... I have removed the cpu and reinstalled it before, in the
hope that
applying new thermal-paste would help on the fan-noise... - it didnt,
but the computer
has worked ok so the physical process is not whats worrying me. its
whether a different cpu can screw up anything electronical on the
mainboard...

Kasper

electronically? No. ALA its the same pin configuration (compatable socket) thats being
used (and that appears so). I believe the M and the standard celerons have the same
voltage requirements.
 

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