CPU upgrade on Toshiba Satellite A65-S1062 possible?

[htne]

I recently picked up a used notebook in one of my local trades.

It's a Toshiba Satellite A65-S1062. Detailed specs here:

Toshiba A65-S1062

This sucker is slow. I bumped the memory from 512 megs (minus 64 megs for shared video) to 1.25 megs, and swapped the 40 gig 4200 rpm hard drive for an 80 gig 5400 rpm model. Neither of those moves really seemed to help. This is a fresh, clean install of XP, no malware.

The cpu is an original Celeron 2.7 ghz, the model with only 128k cache, and I'm thinking of trying to upgrade it. The readme for the BIOS upgrade on the Toshiba website says this BIOS works on models up to the A65-S1762. The S1762 uses a 3.2 Ghz Mobile Pentium 4 cpu, model 538. (24 x 133 mhz). If I could lay my hands on a Mobile Pentium 4 cpu, what are the odds that it would work in this notebook? Anyone here ever perform such a transplant?

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: htne
This sucker is slow. I bumped the memory from 512 megs (minus 64 megs for shared video) to 1.25 megs, and swapped the 40 gig 4200 rpm hard drive for an 80 gig 5400 rpm model. Neither of those moves really seemed to help. This is a fresh, clean install of XP, no malware.

help with what? even basic tasks ran slow? slow boot? slow....gaming?

 

[htne]

Originally posted by: clandren
help with what? even basic tasks ran slow? slow boot? slow....gaming?

CPU intensive tasks. I really noticed this when I was doing a fresh install of XP and associated paraphernalia. Installing dotnetfx35.exe (the latest Dot Net from Microsoft) took close to one hour. On a modern cpu (E6300 overclocked to 3.0 ghz), this takes about 5 to 10 minutes. On a Celeron 430 (1.8 ghz), it takes about 15 minutes. On this computer, nearly 60 minutes. The cmos setup is set to run the cpu at full speed with cache enabled, and CPU-Z indicates the cpu is at 2.7 ghz.