Which Processor Upgrade? HP DV1000 Notebook PC

Here's the deal...My father's HP DV1000 Notebook PC has Win XP Pro OS. MS will soon discontinue support of XP. Took advantage of Win-8 Pro upgrade sale ($39.99), only download and it expired yesterday. Before selling you Win-8, MS runs a program in your PC to make sure all the hardware/software installed is compatible with Win-8, then it tells you if you can proceed with the purchase. At first it wouldn't allow me to purchase, because Win-8 needs a min. of 1GB memory, and my father's laptop only had 512MB. Issue solved in 1 hour, by purchasing and installing 1GB memory. MS program ran again, it advised that there was a program and a few files that would be lost, or wouldn't work with Win-8. No big deal, and MS allowed the purchase and proceeded with the download. When finished the famous Error Code: 0xc0000260 Recovery appeared. Now, I cannot anything with the computer. Went into the BIOS and couldn't solve anything. Reading on the internet, apparently there is a flaw with the MS program that advises if Win-8 installation is a Go. It will not detect that the Pentium M 1.6GHZ (as well as other Pentium M) do not have PAE-NX. According to MS tech support, Win-8 works with the Pentium M, but some features of the OS might not be available for use. Independently, the laptop is stuck in the blue screen advising of the error, Win-8 will not finish installing, laptop cannot be set back to XP, basically "frozen".

I don't want to recover back to factory settings, as there is a medical billing program in the computer that is extremely expensive, and tech support is a useless.

So, my alternative is install a processor that supports PAE-NX, and that is a direct replacement/upgrade to the HP installed Intel Pentium M 1.6GHZ. If more info is needed for proper recommendation, advise. Thanks in advance.

 

Yikes... well, you can upgrade the M to the 90 nm "Dothan" model. Same chip but a revised manufacturing process, and that second gen supports PAE and XD bit, the latter of which is a NX bit implementation. You may need to consult Microsoft to ensure that it will be compatible, as they may be telling you the Pentium M is, but they may be referring to that second gen chip.

Thankfully, both generations use the same socket. But the problem is that it's a BGA CPU. BGA is used for permanently soldering the chip - so I don't know how practical, possible, or cost efficient (IF possible) it would be to replace the processor.

 

Thanks for letting me know...Best thing will probably be to go back to XP, will contact HP for support disks. Any alternative, as to how to go back to XP without the support disks, or where can I download (burn) such disks. Remember that all I can do is access the computer BIOS.

 

Can you tell me the full model number like DV1000-xxxx or the actual model number that is still on the sticker with that one can reference what model and make and what chipset is in it and then can figure what CPU you can upgrade to. I upgraded DV4-1xxxx and DV5-1xxx, DV6-1xxxx to T8100 but they could also go up to T9500 as well but T8100 was less expensive and did the job.

 

Don't do anything you have talked about doing here. Upgrade the motherboard on this laptop if you like it. I did it myself. Works perfectly and is really a nice little laptop. Its also not much more work than upgrading the CPU.

Its a frikkin HUGE jump in performance. The dv1600 motherboard is socket M, supporting the older core 2 duos... somewhat. I found that the core 2 chips worked but the fan turned on all the way.
Still, you can get a relatively really good dual core going in there. I forgot which one I put in it. It goes without saying that these much newer processors PAE-NX... right?? I don't know about these things but I think its really safe to assume here.

Unfortunately the heatsink needs to be changed and its a little expensive since its rare.
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Now that I think about it and fully read your story I realize you would in fact have to reformat in order to do this upgrade. So maybe you should buy the Pentium M with the features you need. But AFTER that - upgrade it! Its pretty darn cheap for a pretty huge performance gain. I'm pretty sure once you get win8 installed correctly on the hard drive, it wont crash when you try to boot it with a different chipset (XP does not work like this).

 

HP would be the only vendor to supply support discs (that is, if they have the support media archived/stored still for that laptop). If they don't, you can probably find it otherwise, such as a torrent, but I'm not going to push you in that direction since legality is often a big issue with peer-to-peer downloads like that.

If you can't obtain recovery media, your next best bet would probably be to purchase Windows XP outright and do a fresh install.