[GLLUG] Hardware issues.

[Charles Ulrich]

eric.hein at us.army.mil wrote:
> In a limited search I've not found a way to use a salvaged laptop
> processor other than another salvaged laptop that needs one.  Is
> there a kind of hybrid motherboard where I might us an mobile pentium
> 4 processor in a desktop system?  Any one have other ideas?

A cursory googling suggests that the Mobile Pentium 4 has the same 
Socket 478 pinout as the equivalent P4 desktop processor, so maybe you 
can just use a standard P4 motherboard. Might be a good idea to research 
that before plugging it in, though.

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Charles Ulrich
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