New Cruncher; HP Pavillion DV6205US

[rgathright]

Thanks to all the encouragement from the team I have received lately, I decided to go through my broken laptop drawer.

Inside I found an HP Pavillion DV6205US that has a 1.60 GHz Intel® Pentium® Dual Core processor T2060.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=3340160

Uprades:
1) Replaced the 80Gb 5400RPM drive with the Transcend V Series TS32GSSD25S-M 32Gb SATA SSD hard drive that I took off my AMD 1090T box.
2) Will replace T2060 with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 mobile CPU 1.83 GHz SL9U3 2M/667 from Ebay for about $40
3) Install Windows XP Pro 32bit to minimize service usage and maximize crunching potential. I would use a 64bit OS but do not have anymore licenses right now.

Hope to have the new processor ready for our PrimeGrid challenge at the start of April.

Currently, I am having a problem removing the corrupt partition from the Transcend SSD. Windows XP Pro install failed to delete it. Trying a System Rescue CD ISO that I downloaded the other day on the laptop.

If you have any suggestions let me know!

[Dandasarge]

When I have an issue I put into another computer as a slave drive and format it.

[Mike029]

Sweet!! Another one resurrected.

[DrPop]

Nice! That is exactly the stuff that might put us over the edge into first or second place next time! Great work!

[Fire$torm]

Cool! Its always nice to find useful tech buried in the pile.

If you are still having trouble with the bad partition try Gparted. Its a linux utility that you can boot from a USB thumb drive. A great utility to help get Gparted onto the thumb drive is the Universal USB Installer from pendrivelinux.com. Another great option is Parted Magic. It is a full suite of useful utilities that includes Gparted and can also boot from a thumb drive.

[rgathright]

Cool! Its always nice to find useful tech buried in the pile.

If you are still having trouble with the bad partition try Gparted. Its a linux utility that you can boot from a USB thumb drive. A great utility to help get Gparted onto the thumb drive is the Universal USB Installer from pendrivelinux.com. Another great option is Parted Magic. It is a full suite of useful utilities that includes Gparted and can also boot from a thumb drive.

I keep getting the message "Unable to write to boot sector." for the SSD.

It's h@x0r3d.

Using a spare 250Gb 2.5" WD BEKT for now.

Of course the 250Gb drive is giving a C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM corruption error upon boot of Windows XP now as well on this laptop. Glad I have not spent a dime on real upgrades yet!

[rgathright]

Did it! Windows XP Pro 32bit finally installed after I wiped out all the partitions on the 2.5" 250Gb 7200RPM WD BEKT SATA drive.

Now, I just have to get network access working and this puppy can BOINC!

Once BOINC is running, I will then order a used CPU from Ebay.

[Maxwell]

Awesome! Congrats!

[rgathright]

Here she is: http://androinc.net/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6212

Forgot to mention one thing... I did all this work using the external monitor port. The 15.6" LCD screen was shattered by the previous owner!

Will order the Intel T5600 processor today but wonder why I can't put a T5850 in this laptop?

I can't find an HP Pavillion DV6000 Intel series compatibility chart anywhere. Did find this but it does not show any 800FSB processors: http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-HP/Pav...0_(Intel).html

[rgathright]

Just completed the processor upgrade!

Used an Intel T7200 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo processor!

After ripping it into over 12 pieces, I was able to get it all back together and crunching.

Here is the computer's detail, hope it will help out with our PrimeGrid challenge in April.
http://androinc.net/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6212

FYI, SuperPi 1Million Bench Results:
Intel T2060 - 52 seconds
Intel T7200 - 24 seconds