Problem upgrading processor on Pavilion zv6010

I have an HP Pavilion zv6010 which has a socket 939 motherboard. I ran CPU-Z diagnostic and it tells me the motherboard manufacturer is HP model 3085 42.3B. The chipset is ATI Radeon Xpress 200m. AMD's website says this chipset will support Athlon 64 processors.

Well, the processor that's in here now is an Athlon 64 3500+
The service manual shows that the Athlon 4000+ was an option for higher models of the zv6000, so I went and bought one.

The first one I bought from ebay, I had a tech put it in for me and he charged $60 just to tell me that it didn't work. So I thought the processor was bad. Then I just tried another 4000+ that I bought from Newegg and the same thing happened, no video. The ones I purchased had the San Diego core, with 1meg L2 cache.

The only thing I can think of is that the 4000+ is higher wattage than the 3500+ but not by much, maybe 25watts. But I figured since the motherboard is socket 939, then it should accept any 939 processor.

Any ideas?

 

I can guarantee your laptop does not have a socket 939 processor in it.
The 3500+ is a socket 754 AMD processor.
HP never made a laptop with a socket 939 processor in it.
Clevo was the only notebook manufacturer which put a 939 socket in a laptop.

The fastest socket 754 processor is the 3700+, which is not much of an upgrade.

I would run cpu-z and cpuID to find the specs of your processor, it will tell you its socket 754. I am 99% sure its a socke 754 system

K-TRON

 

Nope, not true, the zv6000/R4000 series used Socket 939 processors. HP basically used regular desktop chips instead of the DTR or mobile Skt 754 available at the time.

zukipoo

Most likely you bought the E6 revision of the 4000+. The HP BIOS only supports upto an E4 based 4000+. You should be able to identify which rev it is based on the OPN markings on the cpu.

 

WOW, I stand corrected,
Sorry zukipoo.
I probably should have researched a bit before posting.

K-TRON