Well I figured out what was wrong with the CPU

Brettation · 01-25-2005, 07:05 AM

I never knew that the micron size made a difference...

Northwood is 0.13
Prescott is 0.09

For those of you that do not remember. I ordered a pentium 4 3.0E from Newegg a while back. My motherboard is a P4 Titan GA8486 FX (L). Upon recieving this chip I tried installing in and the system would turn on but the bios would not even load. Funny thing was I returned the processor thinking it was bad and recieved another one. And to my suprise the same thing happened. Now im on the look for another motherboard. So I would like some advice on what to look for.

Ham n Cheese · 01-25-2005, 08:38 AM

Try different ram, make sure it's in the right spot. Make sure your power supply is set to 115 (computers will turn on but get no signal if this is set too high). Test out a different video card.

Eomer · 01-25-2005, 09:36 AM

Update the BIOS on your mobo, as well. I doubt that your mobo wouldn't support slightly revised P4's, it doesn't know the difference.

01-25-2005, 07:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
Brettation Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 45 +0 Internets	Well I figured out what was wrong with the CPU I never knew that the micron size made a difference... Northwood is 0.13 Prescott is 0.09 For those of you that do not remember. I ordered a pentium 4 3.0E from Newegg a while back. My motherboard is a P4 Titan GA8486 FX (L). Upon recieving this chip I tried installing in and the system would turn on but the bios would not even load. Funny thing was I returned the processor thinking it was bad and recieved another one. And to my suprise the same thing happened. Now im on the look for another motherboard. So I would like some advice on what to look for. __________________ If you don't understand the reason you are in favor of this place. Then the often come will find the was you can't return at will... * Stephen Hawking *

01-25-2005, 08:38 AM	#2 (permalink)
Ham n Cheese Productive, fully-charged, cocked and pointed Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Houston Posts: 8,383 +18 Internets	Try different ram, make sure it's in the right spot. Make sure your power supply is set to 115 (computers will turn on but get no signal if this is set too high). Test out a different video card. __________________ Xeph Hunky Dory Mavo Mayhem

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01-25-2005, 09:36 AM	#3 (permalink)
Eomer Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 8,885 +4 Internets	Update the BIOS on your mobo, as well. I doubt that your mobo wouldn't support slightly revised P4's, it doesn't know the difference.