Sony Vaio VGC R825GY

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by **LadyRider** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:32 pm

Help I have a sony Vaio VGC R825GY I bought in 2005 my intel Pentium 4 processor is dying, all tests I have ran says my motherboard is a Asusek PTGD2-VX I just put a intel celeron E3200 in I have nothing Do I need a bios update?

by **edwin** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:51 pm

Only 60nm CPUs can be used on this board. the E3200 is a 45nm. The hardware does not support the newer CPUs. See if you can get a used working CPU like you have in there now and sell off the whole system. Sony boxes are not good for upgrading in general...