Upgrading Processor - A8-4500M to A10-4600M

[AdiVis]

Hi, Folks,

I own a Pavilion g6 2005-ax which has a 3 GHz/2.1 GHz AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M APU which I'm thinking of switching out for a AMD Quad-Core A10-4600M APU which I came across for cheap.

Are there any issues that I'm going to face? The question is more from a compatibility basis as I've previously dismantled the laptop to replace the thermal gel.

Note that the laptop has dual graphics, 7640G from the APU and an additional 7670M from the GPU.

The A-10 4600M APU has an inbuilt 7660G but I've seen laptops that run a 7660G + 7670M configuration.

Any other advice would be appreciated as well.

Thanks,

Aditya

[CarlosE · Accepted solution]

Hi,

According to the manual of your laptop is compatible processor, check page 1:

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03277661

AMD Radeon HD 7660G+HD 7670M Dual Graphics for computer models equipped with an AMD A10-4600M APU and AMD Radeon HD 7670M graphics card

[AdiVis]

Fantastic! Thanks Carlos. I have another question.

I went ahead and changed the processor and was able to boot successfully (yay!) but expectadly, some devices are not working properly. Could you direct me to a reliable source for the drivers? In particular, I'm having issues with the graphic cards that are showing up as exclamation marks.

Thanks,

Aditya

[CarlosE]

Look at the control panel, system, device manager, hardware IDs attached devices without driver.

To establish check out the following tutorial:

How to easily find drivers for Unknown Devices in Windows

[AdiVis]

Thanks for the tip! That helped me resolve issues with one of the unknown devices. My other issue is that the graphic cards are identified and each claim to have the most updated drivers. If I try to enable both at the same time, however, both of them get the yellow exclamation mark.

Can you help me here or should I go ahead and start a new thread?

Thanks!

[CarlosE]

I think someone had already posted in this forum, but I can not find the exact post.

I can not remember if I use the driver provided by Lenovo or other:

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds104249