My PC has the BIOSTAR H61MGC motherboard with a 550W power supply. I tried upgrading the CPU from a
Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge to a Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge
The CPU socket seems to match and it fit perfectly, but when I powered it up it kept turned on and off after 2-3 seconds with no POST screen.
I thought it would be the graphic card hogging the power, so I removed the graphic card and it's power cables and tried booting it up again, but the same thing happened. I tried resetting the CMOS with the jumper, but it wouldn't turn on when it's on the other 2 pins and when I set the jumper back to it's original 2 pins, the same thing would happen.
I was thinking the CPU socket might have bent pins so I checked but it looked fine. I also replaced the old CPU and it would boot fine, except at the POST screen it would say something like "CMOS fail." and loads fine to the desktop after that.
FInally I gave the new i5 CPU another try, but it just kept turning on and off automatically again after trying to power it on, What could be the problem here?
Links to the parts:
BIOSTAR H61MGC motherboard: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HMZ740/
Core i3: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115078
Core i5: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504
Rosewill 550W power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182131
Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge to a Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge
The CPU socket seems to match and it fit perfectly, but when I powered it up it kept turned on and off after 2-3 seconds with no POST screen.
I thought it would be the graphic card hogging the power, so I removed the graphic card and it's power cables and tried booting it up again, but the same thing happened. I tried resetting the CMOS with the jumper, but it wouldn't turn on when it's on the other 2 pins and when I set the jumper back to it's original 2 pins, the same thing would happen.
I was thinking the CPU socket might have bent pins so I checked but it looked fine. I also replaced the old CPU and it would boot fine, except at the POST screen it would say something like "CMOS fail." and loads fine to the desktop after that.
FInally I gave the new i5 CPU another try, but it just kept turning on and off automatically again after trying to power it on, What could be the problem here?
Links to the parts:
BIOSTAR H61MGC motherboard: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HMZ740/
Core i3: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115078
Core i5: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504
Rosewill 550W power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182131
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