Help with laptop cpu upgrade, please!!!!

[hcarlson]

I have been looking for about a week now and canot find the answer, so I am seeing if you guys can help.

I am getting a Micron Transport NX laptop this coming Tuesday. It has a PII 400 mhz MMC-2 proc in it. I am 99% sure it's running on a 66mhz FSB.

My question is, can I upgrade to a PIII MMC-2 proc that runs on a 100mhz FSB or am I stuck at a 66mhz FSB?

I have already downloaded the manual from Micron's website and it was no help.

 

[stingbandel]

if you have a PII laptop, I don't think you can upgrade to PIII.

If you have P4 laptop then you can upgrade it cause starting from P4, the cpu are not soldered to the motherboard.

Hope that helps.


Darno

 

[hcarlson]

It's not soldered. I guess you don't know what an MMC-2 cpu is. It's basically a cpu on a card with a 400-pin connector.

 

[hcarlson]

Okay here's what I have found out so far. I reviewed the manual again and here is what I found:

"The Transport NX supports the Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium II PE and Mobile Pentium III processors...The Transport NX also employs the Intel 440BX core logic."

Does that mean 100mhz FSB or just that it can handle 100mhz fsb or what?

But I also found a contradiction on this website: http://www.orphanlaptops.com/mp989.htm

"The MP989 uses laptop Pentium II or Celeron MMC-2 CPU modules that run with a 66 MHz bus speed. The fastest module in this package was only a 400 MHz PII version or possibly the Celeron 433 MHz or 466 MHz modules."

"Just before Chicony ended laptop production a Pentium III version of the MP989 was developed and may have been sold in Europe as the MP999. Since the PIII & later Celerons MCC-2 are available on MCC-2 modules it might have been a simple matter of using a faster motherboard clock and updating the BIOS to use the PIII CPU's that run with a 100 MHz motherboard bus speed.

No, you can not install a PIII CPU into a MP989 and I haven't been able to make any 100 MHz MCC-2 CPU operate in the MP989."


Grrrr, I think I'm going to have to buy one and see what happens and hope for the best.

 

[jschuk]

I am not saying this will apply to you, but I replaced the system board on a IBM laptop. I was sent the wrong system board (almost identical in appearance) and the PIII 450MHz ran at 300MHz. There was something on the system board that determined the FSB of the CPU even though the IBM used a MMC-2 CPU. However I generally thought that you could move up from PII CPU's to PIII's with the MMC-2 design. I wish my laptop didn't use MMC-1 (PII400 or Celeron 466 max).

 

[stingbandel]

Originally posted by: hcarlson
It's not soldered. I guess you don't know what an MMC-2 cpu is. It's basically a cpu on a card with a 400-pin connector.

I guess I don't know it if it's not soldered.

sorry for wrong information...

 

[Alphahawk]

Originally posted by: hcarlson
I have been looking for about a week now and canot find the answer, so I am seeing if you guys can help.

I am getting a Micron Transport NX laptop this coming Tuesday. It has a PII 400 mhz MMC-2 proc in it. I am 99% sure it's running on a 66mhz FSB.

My question is, can I upgrade to a PIII MMC-2 proc that runs on a 100mhz FSB or am I stuck at a 66mhz FSB?

I have already downloaded the manual from Micron's website and it was no help.

You are stuck with the 66mhz FSB.