I took out a P4 1.7 gig processor out of my motherboard & replaced it with this 2.8 gig Processor

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6886220003&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

The PC powers up but I get no response, Do I need to replace my motherboard? I didn`t think this was necessary.

Can anyone help?

Have you verified that your motherboard should support a 2.8 gig processor?Hi thanks for reply,

I used Sisoft Sandra report program & under CPU & BIOS information it read:-

Upgradeability:-

Supported speed(s) 2.2GHz+


With motherboard information that Sisoft Sandra provides you, you should have ENOUGH information to go to the website of the motherboard manufacturer and see exactly what processors are supported by your motherboard.

If, in fact, your motherboard should support that processor, then you may have a bad processor, and that's an issue you'll have to take up with the ebay seller.But I SUSPECT you'll find that what you got is not compatible with what your motherboard takes. Let US know the make and model of the board and we can ADVISE. Just because it fits does NOT mean it will work. Thanks guys, here is my motherboard spec,

Manufacturer - Elitegroup (ECS)
Model - SIS-650
MPS Version 1.10
System BIOS 03/07/2002-SIS-650-6A6IXE19C-00
Chipset SIS 64X/65X

Chipset 1-

Elitegroup COMPUTER sys SIS650 cpu to pci bridge
Front side bus speed - 4x100 (400MHZ data rate)
Maximum FSB speed / Max memory speed - 4x133MHZ / 2x166MHZ

Does this help you help me, pleeeeeze

Thanks again.Can you find some other coding in that Sisoft Sandra report that looks like a motherboard model number? SIS-650 appears to be the "chipset" used on a motherboard but not the actual model of motherboard.This is taken from belarc advisor-


Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.70 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: SiS-650
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 03/07/2002We're still missing some info, like the actual motherboard model, but with a 100 Mhz FSB, you are not going to be running a P4 2+ gigahertz processor. Yeah i guess so lol, well I stripped all the information I could from Belarc & Sandra.

Anyhow i`ve just purchased a new motherboard so hopefully I may solve my own problem eh?

Thanks all for your help!