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    Will upgrading a Compaq Presario F500 be fun and Possible

    Discussion in 'HP' started by antoinefinch1959, May 9, 2013.

  1. antoinefinch1959

    antoinefinch1959 Newbie

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    here goes
    what i have first
    Mainboard : Quanta 30D3
    Chipset : nVidia GeForce Go 6100
    Processor : Mobile AMD Sempron 3500+ @ 1800 MHz
    Physical Memory : 1024 MB (1 x 1024 DDR2-SDRAM )
    Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100
    Hard Disk : Hitachi HTS541680J9S SCSI Disk Device (80GB)
    DVD-Rom Drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-7530B
    Monitor Type : Nvidia Defaul - 15 inches
    Network Card : Broadcom Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card
    Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate Professional Media Center 6.01.7600 (32-bit)
    DirectX : Version 11.00
    Windows Performance Index : 2.6 on 7.9

    What I want
    2GB Kit (2x1GB) Memory RAM Upgrade for Compaq Presario F500
    Size Capacity: 500GB
    - Drive Interface: Serial ATA (SATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment)
    - Driver Size: 2.5"
    - Product Type: Hard Disk Drive
    - Buffer Size: 8MB
    HP dv5-2135dx Laptop CPU Processor AMD Turion II Ultra X2 2.4GHz TMP540SGR23GM


    Never upgraded a laptop, worth 100.00 USD to get the experience(LAPTOP WAS FREE) :D
     
    antoinefinch1959, May 9, 2013
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  2. StormJumper

    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    Compaq Presario F500 Notebook PC series specifications - HP Home & Home Office Products

    Maximum memory: Supports up to 2GB DDR2 Memory
    So unless you have some at least 2 gig of memory module lying around you could put two of the same matching pairs to see if it boots and work to know for sure if it can go above to 4Gig of Ram.

    Any Size of 2.5" should fit they have 500gig if you can find it as long as it is Sata as your connector is that will work as all laptop drives are 2.5" format.

    This is a little more tricky you have to open your laptop up were the CPU is socket and look at the Socket itself and see what the socket identifies the socket type is to make sure your CPU matches up to it. Here is what I found:

    Compaq Presario F500 560EM cpu - HP Support Forum - 735095

     
    StormJumper, May 10, 2013
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