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Thread ID: 15933	2002-02-21 07:57:00	GIgabyte motherboard vs P3 500 CPU	Guest (0)	Press F1

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36540	2002-02-21 07:57:00	I am trying to upgrade my 333 celeron cpu with a P3 500 on a GA-6BA Gigabyte motherboard. This should be possible according to the manual and GBs site info, however when I attempt to boot I get -nothing! The screen is blank with the yellow light below the screen blinking. I have set the clock multiplier to 5 (it was already) and the FSB is set to 100Mhz. I have upgraded the BIOS to v.2.4 which, according to the guff, should support this chip. My m/board is a REV 2.5 which is not mentioned in the info on the GB site, and Gigabyte dont seem to bother answering my repeated requests for information about this problem. Please -anyone, got any clues?	Guest (0)
36541	2002-02-21 09:41:00	What type of memory did you have in your machine? You may have only got SDRAM PC 66 so setting your FSB above 100 isn't good for the RAM. There could be other reasons but I would look at this first.	Guest (0)
36542	2002-02-22 00:00:00	Just a thought...but is the CPU seated properly? I remember doing this with my last upgrade (a slot 1 PII 350)....I thought I'd pushed it in properly but when I tried to boot I got absolutley nothing at all. I went to bed thinking I'd fried my board and new chip. Next morning I thought I'd give it a REAL hard shove seeing as I had nothing to lose. Sure enough there was a satisfying click and everything worked just fine. But the amount of pressure I had to put on the chip was frightening.	Guest (0)
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