You were able to fit the CPU, without bending pins - obviously, it's running. I'd say - no problem. But don't just look at the CPU speed as a performance indicator. Chances are that your original CPU had a higher cache, which will dramatically improve performance. On another note: your disk was badly fragmented... hmm... are perhaps a windows user? :o) On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 18:35 -0500, Chris Weisiger wrote: > I have a Gigabyte 8S661FXMP motherboard. It had a P4 2.4Ghz processor in > it. > > I have a laptop which cant be fixed and has a Pentium 4 M 2.8Ghz. > > I put the Pentium M in my desktop and it boots fine and runs fine, yet I > have only been running it for about 30 minutes and shut it down. > > I have now run it for a complete 2 days without lock ups or anything. > I have just been letting it idle, although I did do a defrag of a 120Gig hard drive which the hard drive was thoroughly fragged. So that was the first intensive thing done to my desktop with the pentium M processor. > > I runs at a cool 24 degress C. > > I did read that some laptops were socket 479 but i double checked my laptop and it is definitely socket 478. Both my desktop and laptop are socket 478. > > When I boot my system up, it does tell me that its a Mobile processor. > > What kinda issues would I need to look for as far as capatibility issues. > > I kinda took the situation as, it boots up and runs so it should be fine. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos