will any 478 work

well, the bios of the motherboard must provide support for the CPU. and It's possible (but not likely) that early s462 motherboard won't support 2,4ghz

when you find a motherboard, post the model here and I'll try to help you.
 
What referance do you make so that you know it would suit?

The board in one of the links says - BIOSTAR P4M80-M4 478 VIA P4M800 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

The cpu says its a - 478 p4 2.4ghz/512/533/1.5v

OK, so the 478 pins is the same, "that's logical". The P4 is the only other thing i can see to go on :confused:.
 
The chipset used on the board must provide support for the CPU, for example the fastest CPU that the North Bridge VIA P4M800 supports is a Pentium D. In this case, it's installed on a socket 478 motherboard, so the fastest cpu supported is a Pentium 4 Prescott...

sometimes with a bios upgrade you can install a better/newer CPU

you can also check the list of supported CPUS. check the manual, or website.

by the way, I'd buy the other motherboard.

--> BIOSTAR P4M900M4 478 VIA P4M900 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

unless you already have DDR memory and a good AGP card.
 
Thanks for the help so far. This is my daughters computer and the MB she has now is a Aopen ax4b-533. I can not find anything on that MB. I tried another cpu and still willl not fire up. So i am 99.9% sure the board is dead. I have tried taking out memory all the normal test. I just want to get her a cheap board but want to be sure it will work
 
konzerte said:
well, the bios of the motherboard must provide support for the CPU. and It's possible (but not likely) that early s462 motherboard won't support 2,4ghz

when you find a motherboard, post the model here and I'll try to help you.
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Features
Intel® Pentium® 4/ Celeron® mPGA 478 Socket with 400/533MHz FSB
Intel® 82845E MCH Chipset
Two DIMMs up to 2GB DDR ECC/Non ECC Memory
Onboard SMI 722 Graphics, support TFT & LVDS, LCD, TV-Out
ADI AD1885 AC'97 support 2 CH Audio
Intel® 82562ET 10/100Mbps LAN
1 x AGP, 5 x PCI, 2 x ISA
2 x COM, 6 x USB
ATX Form Factor (12" x 9.6 ")

Specifications
Systems
CPU Intel® Pentium® 4 / Celeron® mPGA 478 Socket

Supports Northwood core P4 or Celeron® CPU Only (with Cache equal or less than 512K)
400/533MHz FSB
Core Logic Chipsets Intel® 82845E MCH + Intel® 82801DB ICH4
System Memory Two 184-pin DIMM sockets support up to 2 GB PC2100 DDR ECC/Non ECC
BIOS 4 MB FWH BIOS
Expansion Interface 1 x AGP 4X/2X Slot
5 x 32-bit PCI Slots
2 x ISA Slot
Additional Features Onboard SMI 722 Graphics, Support 2 x TFT & LVDS LCD and 1 x TV-Out
Power Management APM version 1.2
WOL (Wake On LAN) and WOR (Wake On Ring)
 
ca11rangers said:
Features
Intel® Pentium® 4/ Celeron® mPGA 478 Socket with 400/533MHz FSB
Intel® 82845E MCH Chipset
Two DIMMs up to 2GB DDR ECC/Non ECC Memory
Onboard SMI 722 Graphics, support TFT & LVDS, LCD, TV-Out
ADI AD1885 AC'97 support 2 CH Audio
Intel® 82562ET 10/100Mbps LAN
1 x AGP, 5 x PCI, 2 x ISA
2 x COM, 6 x USB
ATX Form Factor (12" x 9.6 ")

Specifications
Systems
CPU Intel® Pentium® 4 / Celeron® mPGA 478 Socket

Supports Northwood core P4 or Celeron® CPU Only (with Cache equal or less than 512K)
400/533MHz FSB
Core Logic Chipsets Intel® 82845E MCH + Intel® 82801DB ICH4
System Memory Two 184-pin DIMM sockets support up to 2 GB PC2100 DDR ECC/Non ECC
BIOS 4 MB FWH BIOS
Expansion Interface 1 x AGP 4X/2X Slot
5 x 32-bit PCI Slots
2 x ISA Slot
Additional Features Onboard SMI 722 Graphics, Support 2 x TFT & LVDS LCD and 1 x TV-Out
Power Management APM version 1.2
WOL (Wake On LAN) and WOR (Wake On Ring)
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It will work on that board, but I would try to find a better one.

This one only suports agp 4x and pc2100 DDR. On the other hand, it has a lot of expansion ports and onboard audio and video...
 
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