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    GATEWAY P78 quad core support??? i have no idea what my model is anymore

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by willmoser, Nov 16, 2010.

  1. willmoser

    willmoser Notebook Enthusiast

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    I recently sent my p-7811fx in for repair and it came back today with a brand new motherboard, I am pretty sure that the p-7811fx did not have quad core support but i am unsure if my new motherboard supports it. I have no idea what model the motherboard came from but it deffinitly was not a p-7811.

    part number: MB.W4201.002
    description: MAINBOARD GODZILLA_1GB VRAM WITH GT1-LP PM45 LF / 55.4I201.171

    Does anyone have or know if this motherboard supports quad core? q9100 more specificly. Any help is greatly appreciated.

    BTW gateway depot repair is amazing, im out of warranty and after they charged me 200 for the repair they for some reason refunded it also when they sent me a new laptop they sent it with a new p8400 installed and nicely shipped my p9500 along with it. Am i just really lucky or are they just complete idiots?
     
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    What bios version was installed on it?
     
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    AaronIROCZ Notebook Enthusiast

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    You got lucky, I sent in my P7808U for a faulty motherboard and they discontinued the motherboard after a year and a half. They will not budge to help the situation out at all. So I am sitting on a 1699.00 paper weight. I also received the laptop back missing keys off the keyboard and the media bar no longer works like it did before I sent it in and it also has a very large dent in the media bar from them leaving a screw on it and shutting the lid down. I do know the p7808u is at least one model that has the quad core cpu reason I got mine.
     
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    willmoser Notebook Enthusiast

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    it came with 9C.23.00
     
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    willmoser Notebook Enthusiast

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    yea i think my motherboard was also discontinued which is why i now have the 1 GB 9800m gts instead of the 512 mb i had before sending it in hahaha. I actually sent it in with a chunk missing out of the casing so they decided to replace the entire case for me.
     
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    More than likely the Q9xxx is not officially supported. I state this as too the obvious that a P7808-u was declined for repair as the official main board is said to no longer be made. The reason I asked about the bios is one user said a q9xxxx would boot to bios with it. This may heve been an attempt to get older mainboards to use Quads and there is an ever so slim chance then that your new board may be copliant between duaals and wuads. Mind you this most likely is not the case...........
     
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