on further research, that p4 will mosdef run in that motherboard and it should run properly and at full speed. its a socket 478 and i could point you to a few reviews where they use willamette cored p4's and northwood cored on the same i845 motherboard at release with no BIOS updates. In my experience if a chip isnt compatible with a chipset it just plain dont work, for example my old pentium 200 got replced with a k6-2 450 which fitted the socket but wasnt compatible with the chipset even with a bios update. last year also i let a friend who i thought i could trust loose on my own PC to clean it up, she managed to crush the 4 year old Athlon 1800XP so i had to find a replacement and fit it in my trusty abit Motherboard. i got a 2400xp and upon booting up (no problems) found it was showing as a sempron 1900xp, one quick BIOS update on my trusty ABIT and it read as a 2400xp. so in that last one it was a change between palomino core and thunderbird core.
If this problem isnt speedstep, bios settings and/or bios update, i will eat my CCNA1-2 and 3-4 books and all CD's ( pass the gaviscon)
Last edited by pBiggi : 04-13-2007 at 04:24 PM.
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