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Re: Can I Upgrade Processor?
You almost have two questions. The quick answer to the upgrade - No, not without a great deal of trouble and expense. The quick answer to the second is also No.
Most of the time the notebook processors are soldered onto a motherboard, and in order to upgrade the processor you need to replace the motherboard, which is not for the faint of heart or inexperienced. We have a member of the community who is a trained experienced technician, and he refers his clients to a notebook repair facility. Even on a manufactured desktop, the answer is not clear, as the processer can be replaced, but whether the MB will recognize it is another matter. MB's in manufactured machines are not as flexible in the setting as aftermarket MB's.
The 64bit Operating code refers to the programming code not the processor. Sixty Four bit processors run perfectly well with 32bit Operating Systems.
You seem to be dancing around a question about a problem with your machine. If you are having problems with the machine post back in new discussion with your exact problem.
Sometimes a posting can be quickly moved to the second page, especially if a large number of news items get posted shortly after your posting. If you don't hear some response in a few days in the future, check on where your question is on the queue and if it has gone to the second page the likelyhood of it's being notiiced has gone down significantlly. Simply refresh the post with another plea as you did this time, just don't wait a month. We usually do better than that.
Most of the time the notebook processors are soldered onto a motherboard, and in order to upgrade the processor you need to replace the motherboard, which is not for the faint of heart or inexperienced. We have a member of the community who is a trained experienced technician, and he refers his clients to a notebook repair facility. Even on a manufactured desktop, the answer is not clear, as the processer can be replaced, but whether the MB will recognize it is another matter. MB's in manufactured machines are not as flexible in the setting as aftermarket MB's.
The 64bit Operating code refers to the programming code not the processor. Sixty Four bit processors run perfectly well with 32bit Operating Systems.
You seem to be dancing around a question about a problem with your machine. If you are having problems with the machine post back in new discussion with your exact problem.
Sometimes a posting can be quickly moved to the second page, especially if a large number of news items get posted shortly after your posting. If you don't hear some response in a few days in the future, check on where your question is on the queue and if it has gone to the second page the likelyhood of it's being notiiced has gone down significantlly. Simply refresh the post with another plea as you did this time, just don't wait a month. We usually do better than that.
Re: Can I Upgrade Processor?
Fact - most mobile CPU's are soldered onto the MB, that particular Dell model is not. Some others may not be as well, but you have to open the case to find out most of the time.
Fact - retail supplies of mobile processors are far less plentiful than desktop processors. Mobile processors are far easier to find today than a few years ago, though.
It does not appear that the original poster is monitoring this discussion any longer. You can try sending her a PM which should trigger a e-mail to her. Click on her photo which will take you to her profile and on the right side click on send a PM.
This is one of the problems with latching onto a discussion that has been marked as answered. If you don't get a response from the PM, then consider starting a new question about this problem.
If this were a desktop with an aftermarket board, and the chip were supported, you would at worst have to flash the BIOS, but if you were already at that BIOS level then the BIOS would automatically recognize it. In the case of manufactured PC's it is a little more problematical.
If you don't hear back from the originator of this discussion, and get no real response from another question in this community, you can consider calling Dell support and hope you get a sympathetic tech (Manufacturers take a dim view of doing this) who will answer the question. You might also check the Dell website forum for any similar situations.
Fact - retail supplies of mobile processors are far less plentiful than desktop processors. Mobile processors are far easier to find today than a few years ago, though.
It does not appear that the original poster is monitoring this discussion any longer. You can try sending her a PM which should trigger a e-mail to her. Click on her photo which will take you to her profile and on the right side click on send a PM.
This is one of the problems with latching onto a discussion that has been marked as answered. If you don't get a response from the PM, then consider starting a new question about this problem.
If this were a desktop with an aftermarket board, and the chip were supported, you would at worst have to flash the BIOS, but if you were already at that BIOS level then the BIOS would automatically recognize it. In the case of manufactured PC's it is a little more problematical.
If you don't hear back from the originator of this discussion, and get no real response from another question in this community, you can consider calling Dell support and hope you get a sympathetic tech (Manufacturers take a dim view of doing this) who will answer the question. You might also check the Dell website forum for any similar situations.
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