G51Vx-X3A Q9000 proc upgrade ***Need Advice***

I recently purchased a Q9000 quad core to upgrade my year old G51Vx-X3A. I took everything apart and put in the Q9000 and put some new tuniq TX-4 thermal paste on and expected to boot and go. Unfortunately it was a no go. BIOS saw the new processor but neither Win7 or Fedora 14 would boot. Am I missing something here? If there is anyone who has successfully completed this upgrade please let me know. Thanks.

P.S.
I am writing this on the laptop, I put the old proc in and had no issues booting... grrrrrrr

 

... You've got an -X version, I believe only the -A versions support quads. Though, with the bios being able to see it ... I don't know anymore. What I *do* know is that the best buy versions don't work with quads, at all, period, end of story.

 

I bought it from Newegg not BB. Strange thing is on the memory is says it's a G60...

From laptop

 

Par for the course, see: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/403860-g51-quads-final-verdict.html

 

Okay guess I wasted my SSD money on a proc that won't boot. Just loops. At least I upgraded the thermal compound. What is the fastest proc I can put in this laptop and make it work?

 

I think I've answered this question several times on this forum! lol

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...m/545521-g51vx-rx05-cpu-upgrade-question.html

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/550790-g51vx-new-cpu-again.html

 

Well finally done w/ all system upgrades. I put a Intel T9900, 8G Patriot RAM kit, OCZ Vertex2 120G, and Seagate Momentus XT 500G in it. The thing screams now. Thanks to everyone in this forum for your help.

 

Wow, nice upgrades! What's your startup time like? I imagine it's faster than almost every G50/G51 owner.

 

Well it is a dual-boot setup w/ Fedora 14 and Winduhs 7. I am guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-30 seconds. My partition layout I think is the most important part so here it goes.

OCZ 120G:
Recovery partition 14G (cloned from original drive)
Winduhs 7 50G (cloned from original drive)
/boot 1G
/ 15G
/usr 15G
/usr/local 1G

Momentus XT 500G:
/home 400G
/var 5G
/opt 2G
swap 8G

I encrypt the / and the /home partitions so I think I take a bit of a speed "hit" on that. But I would say that I can shutdown and reboot from either OS to either desktop in around 30 seconds. It really screams and the temps don't seem to be too bad either. The battery has always drained fairly fast but I think the SSD has helped a little w/ that. I also have the 9cell extended battery ordered so that should give me a little more run time there. All in all I couldn't ask for more. (except for a nagging issue with the headphone jack in Fedora, doesn't work!)

 

Now you can try to implement the DualIDA trick with ThrottleStop for the absolute performance.

 

That's awesome. For battery draining problems in Windows I turned to ThrottleStop for undervolting and nvidia PowerMizer Manager to lock the GPU to 2D clocks on battery. Also undervolting the GPU helped a bit!

I don't think the G50/G51 series can disable the EIST bit or whatever Dual IDA needs. SetFSB works without a hitch though.