jakeou812

Hello everyone. I recently purchased a Pentium 4 3.2E prescott HT 800fsb 1mb cache, to replace a celeron 2.4 478.

Whenever I put the new chip in, I get absolutely nothing. No beeps, monitor doesn't activate. No BIOS introduction. Disk activity lights go on, and dvd drive light goes on.

I have an Asus p4s800 motherboard, that has the latest drivers. I have XP Home with service pack 2.

Do you have to completely re-format the hard drive and reset the BIOS before you even try with a new processor? It seems like I'd get something anyway. Sorry I'm such a newb, but I've managed to handle building my PC and all my other upgrades until this.

I'm going back to Fry's tommorow, but it's a long drive. Should I try to get my money back, a different chip, or a replacement of the same kind? Thanks for reading.

Athlong64"

Have you tried clearing the CMOS?

Athlong64"

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I2EN3GADE

that sucks =P

jakeou812

Reset the bios with the jumper? yes

j0hn00

Are you sure your motherboard had no power running to it? Also, try popping the CMOS battery out.

jakeou812

I know the motherboard was on. I started with my bios being up to date. When that didn't work, I took the battery out to clear it, and started over. So yes, done and done.

What I need to know is: Is this PC dead out of the box, or does it not work just for me.

Cromewell

does it still work if you put the old CPU back in?

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jakeou812

I was able to return the chip for a full refund, but I never found out if it was actually broken.

I'm running my old Celeron right now, it works fine.

I wanted to ask, since that chip didn't work well for me, should I get one that's non-Prescott, with a smaller cache? I have an Asus P4S800 motherboard with a Sis648fx chipset and a Gig of DDR400 memory. I just want something that will be a notice-able improvement from my old chip on video game performance.

Cromewell

Yes a northwood would be a noticable improvement (prescotts don't show improvement over northwoods until you get them to nearly 4GHz)

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LittleHoov

does your motherboard BIOS even support the Prescott core? i guess its too late now, but if it doesnt support the prescott core it wont work, i bet the Celeron is a Northwood so if you bought a Northwood P4 i bet it would work....its kinda stupid if you ask me, it doesnt really seem to matter what core an AMD is...but for example i tried putting a Wilamette core Celeron into a board that only supported Northwood and Prescott, and of course it didnt work, did the exact thing you just described.

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