[scotchfx]

Dunno if anyone here has experience with HP laptops but...

Is there any way to check if the BIOS on the nc8000 will allow me to upgrade to a Pentium M 765 processor aside from actually plugging the processor itself (which I still have to buy - there is a clearance here that has one for sale) into the NC8000 mobo of course?

I tried booting into the BIOS but cannot find any sort of name/designation for the BIOS itself - I'm guessing it's HP specific and HP support is giving me the usual corporate runaround.

Has anyone here tried anything like this before?

For the NC8000, HP had a PM 755 configuration that they sell but as the PM 765 is a more recent development I don't know if the BIOS will be able to recognize it.

Any advice would be MUCH appreciated!

[scotchfx]

anyone anyone... bueller?

[scotchfx]

Although no one ever actually responded to this post I just wanted to let everyone know - after more than 6 months of delaying I finally took the plunge and upgraded my NC8000 with a PM765 (2.1GHz Dothan processor), 1GB DDR, and a Hitachi 7200/100GB drive...

and everything works GREAT!

I was only really worried about BIOS problems with the new processor, but even though HP never offered an NC8000/PM765 configuration the BIOS seems to recognize the processor fine (XP recognizes it as well) so everything seems kosher for the time being.

Couple quick questions if anyone out there listening:

Will adding a second stick of DDR (currently only have a single 1GB stick) use significantly power (i.e. will my battery drain faster with an additional stick of DDR)?

Secondly, what distro of Linux would people recommend for this laptop (tried SUSE 9.2 but had some issues with it)?

Thanks!