d505 cpu support

mattsm,

Thank you for using Dell's Community Forum.

The 505 has support for the Celeron-M, Intel Dothan, and Intel Banias processors of many differing speeds.

I understand this, but what speed grade Pentium M processors are supported? I am looking to upgrade my current Celeron M 1.2 Ghz processor.

-Matthew

Do you know what processor you want to upgrade to?

Pentium M 2.0 Ghz for example

mattsm,

The processor speeds are 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7GHz for the Pentium-M.

The new BIOS's don't enable support for CPU's faster than 1.7 Ghz?

-Matthew

I think you'll find the latest BIOS revision will support above 1.7GHZ. If your that keen, search through the BIOS updates as they list what changes in each update. Hopefully you'll stumble across one with added support for above 1.7GHZ.

My D505 is running great with a 2.1G Dothan.  The BIOS version is A09.

Thats Tseng, that is exacally what I wanted to hear.

-Matthew