Compal: CL56 to FL90?

A few years ago, I purchased a notebook from Powernotebooks.com. I have been very happy with my experience there; however, my laptop is finally on its way out after 4 years of very heavy use. It unfortunately received some electrostatic shock from my headphone plug a few days ago, which caused a short on the motherboard and fried all of the USB ports. I think it's time to get a replacement.

Unfortunately, my budget is a lot tighter than it was 4 years ago. I think the best course of action would be to purchase a new barebones Compal and scrap the useful pieces from my CL56.

I am wondering if the FL90 would be an appropriate barebone replacement. My suspicion is that I will have to purchase at least a new processor for the FL90 (I currently have a Pentium M "Dothan" 1.7GHz)

 

Having done a bit of research, I'll answer my own question: upgrading to the FL90 from the CL56 is not a particularly good match.

The bad news: FL90+ (I'm looking at the FL9015+/FL90+) uses the Intel PM965 Chipset, which will not support DDR1 memory, which unfortunately is what the CL56 uses.

The good news: The PM965 chipset does support Pentium M processors

Summary: You can use the CL56's hard drive and processor, but not the RAM.

 

The PM965 will not support the pentium M cpu's, it will support the newest Santa rosa based Core 2 Duo cpu's (T7300,7500,7700)

It would be best to start right from scratch in terms of parts, i used to have a CL 56, great notebook but its too old vs whats being sold these days, time to put her to rest for good.