According to Wikipedia, Pentium Ms that are Dothan core and support a 533MHz FSB do indeed support PAE. I was not aware of that and I apologize for my mistake. (To be fair, there are no Banias core Pentium Ms that support a 533MHz FSB.)
However, we still have some other things to sort out...
http://www.dell.com/downloads/emea/prod ... 0_emea.pdf
Always go to the source when possible, particularly with this sort of thing -- if you'd looked at the Dell PDF, as in the link in this post, above, we wouldn't be arguing about this.
Note that it says in that PDF, 2nd page, under "Chipset" --
915GM -- Pentium M processor bases
910GML -- Celeron M processor bases
It also says, a little ways above that, under "Processor Type" --
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60GHz), 740 (1.73GHz)
Intel Celeron® M Processor 350 (1.30GHz, 1MB L2 cache)
The
chipset in a computer is *generally* composed of two chips, called
northbridge and
southbridge, and it interfaces the CPU with the rest of the motherboard. The
northbridge primarily handles integrated graphics (if present) and memory (RAM). The
southbridge deals primarily with I/O -- PCI, ISA (if it's old enough) and ports like USB, FireWire, and Ye Olde COMport. The notable exceptions to the two-chip rule include SOME Via chipsets that integrate both north- and southbridge into one chip, AMD's habit of putting the memory controller on the CPU for no good reason, and newer Atom CPU/chipset combinations where graphics are handled on the CPU and the rest of the chipset is stuffed into one chip.
In this case, there are integrated graphics and a proper two-chip chipset, so that is part of the northbridge's duty, yes. However, I never said anything about that being on the CPU. In fact, I didn't bring up graphics at all.
Regarding CPU compatibility...
here is Intel's page on the 910GML chipset. If you look on that page, you will see a heading on the right-hand side that reads "Product Information". Clicking the third link down, "Compare the features of this product" will take you to
this page. On the left-hand side of the new page, click "Compatible Products". That should get you to a page that reads like this:
COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS
Compatible Processors
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 310 (512K Cache, 1.20 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 320 (512K Cache, 1.30 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 330 (512K Cache, 1.40 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 340 (512K Cache, 1.50 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 350 (1M Cache, 1.30 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 360 (1M Cache, 1.40 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 370 (1M Cache, 1.50 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 380 (1M Cache, 1.60 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 390 (1M Cache, 1.70 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor ULV 333 (512K Cache, 900 MHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor ULV 353 (512K Cache, 900 MHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor ULV 373 (512K Cache, 1.00 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor ULV 383 (1M Cache, 1.00 GHz, 400 MHz FSB)
Intel® Celeron® M Processor ULV 800 MHz, 512K Cache, 400 MHz FSB
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 600 MHz, 512K Cache, 400 MHz FSB
I do NOT see any Pentium M CPUs listed. Nor do I see them on the page I directed you to -- from which I copied the quoted list immediately above.
That is not to say that it's impossible -- simply that it's a really bad idea. The computer indeed might refuse to boot and simply beep at the user, if a Pentium M is installed. On the other hand, it might run acceptably for a while, but overheat the chipset.
I've done that before -- admittedly not with a Pentium M. I had a Socket 462 motherboard (AMD Athlon XP) that only supported CPUs up to 266MHz Front-Side Bus (FSB, the communications channel between the CPU and chipset). I had a 333MHz FSB CPU that I wanted to run in it. Two things happened: one, the CPU downclocked to accommodate a 266MHz FSB, and two, the chipset overheated -- and after a week or two of that, fried the onboard graphics. That happened twice before I learned my lesson. Mind you the motherboard is at that point utterly useless -- chipsets are never socketed, to my knowledge, and the way the chips are made and put down, a hobbyist like me has no chance with a soldering iron.
I am
absolutely not going to tell our friend in the Netherlands to put a Pentium M in his laptop and potentially fry the motherboard in the process. That's bad practice and bad manners. That said, I think we've got enough information in his thread, so that if he wants to do that, he knows the risks involved.