e8400 died on 1st post?

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Binkstir

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I'm building a system for a friend and on start up screen came up but I my keyboard wouldnt work. I plugged another one in and restarted an then.......Nothing.

I swapped out everything until finally stuck another processor in. A single core 3.2 and bam, I had a post.. with checksum error. So bad processor? The motherboard is a p5k and is rated for 45nm.
 
Thank you,
Well it's said the motherboard has "native support" for 45nm. Also I tried taking the heatsink off and touching the processor when I turn the power on. It just gets warm very slowly.
 
Binkstir said:
Also I tried taking the heatsink off and touching the processor when I turn the power on.
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If you tell us what mobo/hardware you have we might be able to help you. BIOS was the first thing I thought as well, as that is a 45nm chip. Hopefully you didn't fry the processor with your troubleshooting above, as that is usually not the best idea:rolleyes:.
 
motherboard: ASUS P5K LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard.
Processor e8400
antec 500 watt power supply
geforce 8600
320gig wd hard drive.

On the heat sink thing, I did it just for maybe 5 seconds and the processor was barely warm to the touch so I couldn't have fried it. It's not working, that's why I tried that. I can't check the bios cause I can't get it to post.
 
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Try updating the bios with the processor that works with it. It sounds to me like its not making post because the current bios is not supported with the e8400
 
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