T2300 Upgrade To T7600

Those look like simple slide connectors. Simple slide the cable out of them. Than push it back in when you reconnect it.
This type of connector requires no movement on the connector end. Simply pull the cable out to remove it, and push the cable in to reconnect it.

The ribbon cables for this type of connector, usually have a hard plastic piece on one side of the ribbon cable making the cable resist flexure, thus allowing one to remove it and reconnect it

K-TRON

 

That explains why the ribbon cable just pulled out of them. It's great to know that I wasn't doing something wrong. That is about the only thing that was bothering me, thanks a lot.

 

I got the cpu and put my laptop together. Feels good when you hit the power button and it works the first time. I never did any benchmarks with the celeron M 520 so the only thing I know is the windows experience index and that was 3.8 for the cpu. Now it is 4.9 with the T7200. Thanks again for the help K-Tron.

 

I am glad to hear everything worked out for you. The T7200 is a great processor

K-TRON

 

I have a Gateway MX6912

In process of upgrading memory from 1gb to 2gb and adding SSD

Use the laptop as a music server. Graphics not important.

What processors can I easily upgrade to? Device manager says I have 1.66Ghz t2300

Thanks.

 

Hy all,

i'm trying to upgrade my Asus a6jc i read that i could use a T7200 / T7400 / T7600. Also than i would upgrade to 4 gb memory. i read this was the maximum for the intel i945pm north bridge.

is it possible to just plug in 4 gb of memory and than use it on a 64 bit operating system? the T7X00 are 64 bit processors arent they?

THNX

M_C_B89

 

Hello all,

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 that has a T2500. I updated the BIOS to A17 (the latest) and tried swapping over to a T7600. I did all the good stuff like place an adequate amount of Arctic Silver 5 and so forth. Even cleaned out all the dust that has accumulated for the 2+ years I've owned it.

I performed a clean install of Windows 7 32bit and now am having all sorts of blue screens and resets. I updated the all the drivers, and the blue screens and resets are not as frequent. But the one thing that frustrates me is that I can't even have it boot unplugged, it freezes at the "Windows is starting screen".

I thought maybe its the new Windows so I reformatted and did a clean install of Windows XP, and still get the same crashing and resets. But for some reason I can boot up Windows XP unplugged.

I put the T2500 back, reinstall Windows 7 and all is good. I can boot and run on battery power.

I would really like to use the T7600. The one thing I really liked (in between crashes and resets) was that it handled HD videos significantly better than the T2500. But I can't put my finger on why I am having stability issues. Is it the BIOS? I saw one post from last year were a guy had a T7200 on the same dell model. But I think he was using an older BIOS, A14. I might try that.

Any thoughts on what else to check or try?

Thanks,
Patrick.

 

Patrick, where did you get the CPU? What BSODs are you getting?
That sounds like the CPU may be faulty.

 

I have Bios A15 on mine, and I have had a T7400 and T7600 in my E1505. Never had stability issues with either processor.
Make sure that all of the pins on the T7600 are there and straight. If any are missing, your processor may not work properly.
Also make sure that the processor is locked into the socket.

Have you checked your temperatures?
Install I8KFANGUI, and force the fans to full speed to ensure it stays cool.
My T7400 peaks at about 125F under full load.

K-TRON

 

I bought a used one off of eBay. Are there any diagnostic programs I can run to see if it is faulty?

The crashes, according the the event viewer in Win7 are:

A fatal hardware error has occured.

Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error
Processor ID: 0

Also I have BSODs from bugcheck according to the event viewer. I have memory dumps too that I can post or send.

Thanks.

Oh, I've run all the Dell diagnostics tests and no problems were reported.

K-TRON: I checked the processor, all the pins are intact and straight. It was locked in the socket when I installed. I'll put the T7600 back in and check the temps.

 

I put the T7600 back in. Redid putting arctic silver 5 paste on.

I downgraded the BIOS from A17 to A15.

IK8FANGUI shows that it peaks at 67C (152F) before turning the fans on at full speed. Core 2 seems to run 5-10C hotter than core 1 on loads.

I still can't boot up on battery power. I get a "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" BSOD before it cycles through the Dell boot screen and the Windows Error Recovery menu. When it does let me choose to "Start Windows normally", it will either freeze at the "Starting Windows" animation screen or reset back to the Dell boot screen. Even pulling the plug when Windows 7 is up results in a crash like before.

I'm pretty stumped on what to do here.

Thanks,
Patrick.

 

That is very odd indeed. I cant say that I have ever had that problem.
Your temperatures seem about right, but the problems are not.
I do not know of any programs which can check to see if the processor is good. You can load cpu-z, or sis sandra to run benchmarks, but thats all that I know.

Is your processor an engineering sample?

I would send the processor back to the ebay seller and ask for a refund or replacement. I think he/she sold you a defective processor.

K-TRON

 

I had that once when I was overclocking my T7300.

Either not enough voltage or ram was unstable.

I would guess your problem is voltage. You could try a volt mod.
Or RMclock.

What is the default voltage your getting?

 

Oh cmon, only change is a different CPU, BSOD on a faulty CPU core? All signs are points to a bad CPU. Sorry.

 

That does actually sound like the solution.

 

Wow, speak english? Haha. "All signs are pointing to a bad CPU." Sorry about that.

 

An unfortunate update....

Got my hands on a new T7600, put it in, and for some reason still cannot boot windows 7 up on battery power. The damned thing still just resets itself on the windows is starting animation screen then hangs at the recovery menu.

Like before, it boots up fine when on AC power. But, it loves to crash on YouTube videos played in full screen.

I changed over to the last BIOS for the Inspiron 6400, which is A17, and still no luck.

Oh, I decided to try out the ICD7 thermal compound, which despite having a 2 hour cure period, has the T7600 running at 39C idling with very little fanning.

The only upside to my little upgrading quest of is that I put in a Intel 5300 WiFi card and a 3rd antenna. Hey at least I got one Intel product to work properly. Only annoyance with this card is that the WiFi light now blinks on network activity.

So back to the T7600... I don't think I can get 2 faulty processors in a row. Heck, now that I got the same problems this makes me believe that the first one that I had probably wasn't faulty. Maybe I'll try aiming a little lower and try out a T7400 or T2700 if that is no good.

I am beginning to think that despite theoretically being able to support T7600 because of the 945 chipset, the Inspiron 6400 BIOS most likely doesn't want to.

Anyone with a T7600 in a Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505 have any of these problems?

Thanks,
Patrick.

 

Test your other hardware.
Most notably memory ( http://www.memtest.org/)
and hard drive (get from your hard drive manufacturer's website)

 

I highly doubt my memory and/or hard disk is bad, otherwise I'd probably be having these problems when the T2500 was in, which had no problems. I've used Dell's internal diagnostic with the T7600 and had no errors. I'll give memtest a shot anyways along with testing hard drive integrity.

Thanks,
Patrick.

 

You wrote that the system with T7600 passes Dell diagnostics - is that on AC or battery? If you didn't yet, try running the diagnostics on battery.
Since you tried another CPU, the next candidate would be the power supply on the motherboard.

 

Dear Mr.K-tron / Mr.Arman / or who ever can answer my question.

I am thinking to upgrade my good old acer aspire 5562 t2300 to t7200, i have got everything considered, except for one thing. I have downloaded the bios v1.28 Phoenix from acer website. will it be compatible with t7200? is there anything else that i should know?

i m gonna upgrade this ol' thing asap! not that i need it, just that this baby has been with me for 4 years, and it's been like a soul mate to me, and just thought that it deserves a new brain transplant! hehe... a smarter one!

 

Hi guys, I was reading the thread, I know it is old However no one mentioned a Toshiba Tecra A8. I would like to upgrade one, it currently has a T2300E and the chip set is i945GM, I would like to go to T7600. The BIOS has the latest updates and it is currently running windows 7 without any issues, all devices are functioning properly and it currently has 4gb of RAM. Just wanted to know what is compatible with this laptop, having a hard time finding the info.

Thanx guys.

 

The Toshiba Tecra A8 was offered with Core 2 Duo processors so chances are the upgrade will work. The A8 was offered with the T5600 and T7200 variants, not the T7600, but I don't see how a notebook would work with a T7200 and then not work with a T7600.

I'm not sure what the T7600 goes for, but you might be able to save some money going with a T7200 or T7400. Both will be noticeably faster than your T2300E. I wouldn't pay more for one processor than its comparative performance increase; e.g. the T7400 is 2.16GHz, the T7600 is 2.33GHz; that's a ~8% difference in clockspeed so that's all it is worth, IMO.

 

Hello,

I want to upgrade my Core Duo T2050 CPU to Core 2 Duo T7200 CPU. I already bought the CPU and updated the BIOS ( my laptop is Toshiba a100-405 ).

I have 2 x 1GB DDR2 533 MHz RAM installed.

The FSB Speed of the old Core Duo T2050 CPU is: 533 MHz
The FSB Speed of the new Core 2 Duo T7200 CPU is: 667 MHz

My question is: will the new CPU work with my 533 MHz RAM, or should i upgrade to 667 MHz RAM?

Thanks!

 

It will be fine. Any differences you'd notice would be minimal with regards to the RAM, unless you plan on FSB overclocking.