Hp Probook 450 G2 Ram Upgrade

[Amilcar Labrosse]

Thecomputer that I have (6570b) is covered in the same service manual as the Elitebook 8570p. The manual shows that the Elitebook can accept the whole range of quad core i7 CPUs, up to, and including the i7-3740QM (2.70-GHz processor (SC turbo up to 3.70-GHz; 1600-MHz FSB, 6.0-MB L3 cache, 45 W). The manual also shows that the heat sink is the same for both models. Since the heat sink that I have is therefore sufficient to cool a 45w CPU in the Elitebook, I see no reason to believe that it wouldn't cool the same processor in my 6570b Probook.

Additionally, there is another heat sink listed that is designed to remove the additional heat of a discreet memory GPU. Mine has UMA. I have looked at pictures of both heat sinks and the only difference in them is the addition of the pad that would contact the GPU for the one with discreet memory. I would assume that since they have the same dimensions, this other heat sink being designed to remove the additional heat of the GPU (and the 45w CPU of the Elitebook), would certainly handle the heat of only a 45w CPU.

I guess this leaves me to only a few questions. What is the limiting factor that keeps the CPU recommendations for this laptop so conservative? Will the bios in my laptop recognize the i7-3840QM that I would like to install? If not, can I load the bios from the Elitebook to allow my laptop to make use of the processor?

The cpu arrived today and I installed it and it is functioning perfectly! Both the bios and windows recognize the chip and report it as i7-3720QM running at 2.6GHz. I know that this is an older laptop and there will probably not be many people wanting to spend money upgrading an old machine but in case they do, I hope that this thread and the other two that I have out there on the web will be of benefit to someone. I would have liked to have used the 3840QM at 2.8GHz with the 8MB L3 cache but The 2.6GHz, 6MB L3, 3720QM was $100 while the faster chip was over $200 and only offers about an 8% performance gain. I determined that for me, the 3720QM was the best bang for my buck.

The 3840QM is the fastest 45watt chip so it is as fast as I would trust going in this particular Probook. As I stated earlier, the heat sink in this machine is the exact same part number as the heat sink in othe HP models that use 45w quad core cpus like the 3840QM so I believe that the temps will be fine.

You are thinking that is for sure but the limiting factor is the circuitry HP installed in the motherboard, not just the BIOS. A quad core actually has a different pin arrangement (the pins look the same but different functions are assigned to some of the pins) than a dual core and you can accomodate quad cores or not based on the way the socket is configured. This socket accepts only dual cores and the i7-3540M is the top processor it will handle. This is not a recommendation it is a hard stop. Every now and then a processor not listed in the HP Manual will work but that is usually a processor that is similar to the ones in the Manual but was just issued by Intel after the Manual was printed. I have been here many years and have monitored CPU upgrades and never seen someone report getting a Quad Core to work where the HP Manual lists only dual cores. Having said all this the i7-3540M is not a bad processor. You don't say what you have now so I can't comment on whether the upgrade would be worth the cost.

I've got the probook 6570b but have the onboard qm77 and amd GPU onboard, I'm running it with an i7-2820 right now but am going to put a 3820 or 3840 in it, its got an ssd, 16gig ram and is running really well, if the 38x0 dosen't pull through, hell I can always sell it, you might say I agree these are older machines but hellfire they run really well and would put them up against the base to mid models of some of the newer laptops out there, screen pixel quality, not a chance but Im not here to stare at pretty colours, I want a robust machine that can easily do the job

I have a HP Spectre XT netbook. The installed BIOS is F14 and the latest one on their website is F26. I'd like to do an upgrade but they only provide a Windows executable. I tried booting with FreeDOS (using the Ultimate Boot CD), but the executable won't run in DOS, only Windows. I don't want to install Windows anywhere (I don't have it, I replaced it off the system disk with Ubuntu). So how can I upgrade with only Ubuntu installed on my system ? I haven't tried Wine, does it work for that purpose ?

This method worked fine on an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 TWR when I tested.I guess this method is not supported by HP, so I add this warning: a BIOS upgrade, if failed, can break your computer!

Note that this does require another windows pc to open the bios-update executable, but there is no need to install windows on the target pc, nor do you need a windows recovery disk or windows-pe or any such thing.

Use a separate Windows system to download the correct bios-update executable for your system from the HP support site. In my case the file was called sp95703.exe (HP Notebook System BIOS Update, version F.35 Rev.A).

Run the executable on the Windows system. Don't worry, it will not try to install the update, but it will open a utility that creates a bios recovery drive, as explained on the HP site. Follow the steps to create the USB recovery drive.

In my case, the device did not boot from USB automatically, so I hit esc immediately after turning on, to enter the "startup menu". Here I chose F9 "Boot Device Options", then "Boot from EFI file". Select the file system named HP_TOOLS, navigate to Hewlett-Packard, BIOSUpdate, and finally select the HpBiosMgmt.efi.

I had significant difficulty upgrading the bios. I wasn't able to get any of the other answers here working - many seem outdated and referring to old versions of the bios updater software. The tricky part with the network upgrade is that my computer is new enough that it only has usb-c instead of ethernet. Multiple people at HP support I spoke to said I would be unable to do the network upgrade as a result because it only worked directly over ethernet, but they were misinformed. Using a Thunderbolt dock did not work, but I bought a usb-c to ethernet adapter to try the bios upgrade and finally had success!

Google and Coffee got me there ,i don't mind adding links but was hoping giving the name of the Tool would set you up to google what you needed which in turn would make sure you read and absorbed the important info and warnings HP wrote

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even if the CPU may physically fit and the tdp matches, the a4-4300m and a10-5750m are different generations of CPUs. It's not certain, that HP provided a compatible BIOS for your Probook. You could still try, I would at least install the latest BIOS in advance.

Wattage being the same does not mean not hotter. My ryzen 3600 is 65 watt and my 3700x is too. Yet one has 4 threads more and is higher clocked thus needing a better cooler. So yes it is possible you can drop in the processor it is also possible the bios may not support it ever and it possible the cooling won't either.

Well I upgraded almost as soon as I got it, so not too sure. When it's at high CPU and GPU usage, it will get up to about 95C according to CoreTemp. Of course, YMMV depending on your particular A10-5750M - silicon lottery - etc. - so make sure the thermal compound is good.

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