Tecra 8000 Firmware upgrade for more RAM

check with your motherboard book and see what processors it will except because it all depends on the chipset- usually the cost involved dosen't show much of a performance gain-- have you upgraded the RAM? that a big gain you will notice!

you cannot change the speed of your processor unless your processor supports overclocking. however your processor does not support that.

if your computer is running slow try upgrading the RAM to 1GB.
also check to see whether you have unwanted applications running in the background

Hi,
Providing the laptop has not been upgraded then these are its specs >>>
The processor is an Intel Celeron M 360 1.4GHz
The hard drive is 40GB (upgradable to 360GB)
The RAM (memory) is 256 DDR (upgradable to 1GB or 2GB with a BIOS flash) Let the buyer flash the BIOS.
The screen is 15 inch

The part number is PSA82U00R00RZ


Regards.

Only Ram can be upgraded.. 

Yes. It should easily adapt a 1GB Ram. The 32bit processors can genarally take upto 3GB of RAM

This Laptop will just barely run with that speed processor,,and ram,,it would run a little better with a lot more(say twice the amount)of ram, but only barely.

Yes, it should run WinXP. The minimum system requirements to run both Windows XP Home and Professional are 233Mhz, 64Mb RAM and 1.5GB hard drive space. I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 that still runs XP, a little slow, but has run smoothly for 5 years.

The setupdd.sys error is most likely a due to a defective hardware like RAM. Try installing only one ram if you have two to see if either one is defective; it should work for most users.

Look dear the cost of the processor is too high and more over it is related with the other components of the Laptop. So it is totaly worhtless for trying to replace the Processor of the system. however you can increase the performance of the system by adding additional or replace the present RAM in the Laptop.

You don't have to change or replace your motherboard ..

just go to toshiba website........select your model by its serial No. and download the all available Drivers like Sound, Video, bios, management etc.....

install all these Drivers on your Laptop......... your motherboard will be up-to-date.

The core2 duo chips will be a different socket to your celeron cpu so can do that unfortunately. You may be able to upgrade to a faster cpu of the same socket type but will probably need a bios update for it to run at proper speed.

Unfortunately laptops arent really designed to be upgraded at all bar extra ram/hd/dvdrw.

Hope that helps?