i have a pentium 4 w HT 2.8 ghz cpu inside my tosibha satellite p-25
series laptop and basically the screen is busted as along with some
other things but the cpu is salvagable. can i pull the cpu from the
laptop and put it inside a desktop motherboard??? and if its possible
what do i need to do to extract the laptop cpu???

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Clarification of Question by space_cowboy-ga on 18 Apr 2006 13:06 PDT

okay so i guess how would i find out the type of cpu it specifically
is without trying to open the laptop up?

Although I am not 100% sure this is right for your exact processor
(since I don't have the exact model number of your laptop), I think
you most likely have a 478-pin Intel processor which will use the
478-pin micro PGA (mPGA478B) socket.  I am saying this because I think
your laptop probally uses the Intel 865pe chipset.  Also, since you
have a 2.8 GHz chip it is most likely a Pentium 4 Processors with 800
MHz FSB since the ones with 400/533 at that speed do not support Hyper
Threading (except for one model that has 1MB on-die L2 cache but I
don't that is likely in your case).

Assuming you have an Intel Pentium 4 Processors with 800 MHz FSB in
the 478-pin package running at 2.8GHz (most likeley the 2.80C but it
may be possible you have the 2.80E) then you can use a multitude of
motherboards.

If you know what you are doing then you should be able to extract the
CPU from the laptop and drop it in any ATX 478-pin motherboard that
can use an 800 MHz FSB (you may also want to go with the 865PE
chipset).

The following is a guide to disassemble the P25:

http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/ToshibaP25/SatelliteP25_1.htm

:)