Thinkpads Forum

I have a 380XD 2635-fau TP. It has a 266 P2 in it. I was woundering if its possible to upgrade the processor in it, and if so, how high? I already have 96mb of ram, maxed out. I can't belive 96 is all it will hold, kinda dumb...

If a new processor will go in, is it a desktop style one, cause I have a 466, 500, 600, 766, 850 Celeron's laying around. I just wanted to know before i start opening it up.

Thanks.
Jim

Unfortunatley, the CPU in the 380 series is soldiered to the motherboard. The only upgrade I can imagine as being practical and yeilding decent results is to add a nicer hard drive that can fetch data faster.

Uh, it is? Soldered, that is? I was under the impression that it uses an MMC module

http://cgi.ebay.ca/IBM-Thinkpad-380XD-3 ... dZViewItem


Here's a link to IBM's site for the hardware maintenance manual for that machine. Unfortunately, I'm not privy to how much processor you can stick in that thing.


ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/38xhmm.pdf


http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... FAN-3T5R74


The pix for the cpu are on about page 80

Hmm, maybe it is. I just remember that all the 380's before the 380XD (380, 380D, 380E, 380ED) had the chip soldiered and I didn't think IBM broke that trend in later models. If they did, then awesom, I was wrong and that 380XD has more life in it yet.