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Compaq Presario CQ60-211DX

by billyadams1973 May 7, 2009 12:08AM PDT

I bought this on Buy.com for $370 because it was cheap, but after two weeks of use, I realized the single core 2.16ghz Celeron isnt fast enough for me, or maybe the processors bad.
Ive reinstalled and formatted 4 times, so its not a bad install, but it freezes, lags, and hangs alot.

My question is Can this processor be upgraded? I want to swap for an Intel Core2 Duo (6-MB L2 cache)T9400, 2.53-GHz which is in the service guide as a replacement but HP keeps telling me the cpu cant be replaced(maybe its soldered?). A friend of mine had a CQ60 but it had an AMD dual core, he was able to upgrade his, so I should be able to upgrade mine. No?

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"Freezes, lags and hangs a lot"

by Kees Bakker May 7, 2009 12:27AM PDT

Depending on what you mean exactly, it's unlikely to be a CPU issue.

If you have a workload that's too heavy for the combonation of CPU, amount of RAM and speed of hard disk, things go slower. That would explain an occasional lag.

Freezing and hanging is more serious. If that happens after a clean install (back to factory settings via the System Recovery DVD or partition) while you didn't yet install any other software, it's a warranty issue.

I can't advice on the replacement if the CPU. Maybe someone else can. But I'm afraid you lose the warranty if you do.

Kees

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Let's say no.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 7, 2009 10:58PM PDT

But my kid has his first laptop and it's a single core 2+GHz Celeron. That machine came with 1GB RAM and we popped the second stick of ram in to get it to 3GB. It does not hang. HANG="never comes back." It will however do the usual spinning thingy as it things something over. Nothing wrong there. So for under 400 he has his first laptop and it's doing fine.

And again, no. More and more they solder the CPU in to reach these low prices because sockets cost money.
Bob

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