So for the past several months I've been working on heavily upgrading an average-ended Lenovo pc I bought at the store around 2011. I installed a GTX 660 several months ago and it's been working perfectly. However I recently purchased an i7 3770K to replace the i3 it came with and have been trying to install it with a good deal of trouble. The only other thing I haven't replaced yet is the stock Lenovo motherboard.
The first time I fitted in the new i7 and heatsink fan, I booted everything up to hear 4 short beeps and see no display on the monitor. After a long while of messing with wires, connections, and retrying, I was worried that the motherboard may have broken so I decided to revert back to the old i3 and old heatsink, where everything booted up as normal and I had perfect display.
I haven't attempted to install the i7 again yet, but I've started to wonder if maybe it just won't be compatible, but it does match the same socket as the motherboard(LGA1155). There also really aren't any BIOS updates available from the Lenovo support website for this pc. The newest update is from way back in late 2010, and considering that the i7 3770K was released after 2012, could this new CPU still work with this old motherboard? Or would I have to buy a completely new board?
The first time I fitted in the new i7 and heatsink fan, I booted everything up to hear 4 short beeps and see no display on the monitor. After a long while of messing with wires, connections, and retrying, I was worried that the motherboard may have broken so I decided to revert back to the old i3 and old heatsink, where everything booted up as normal and I had perfect display.
I haven't attempted to install the i7 again yet, but I've started to wonder if maybe it just won't be compatible, but it does match the same socket as the motherboard(LGA1155). There also really aren't any BIOS updates available from the Lenovo support website for this pc. The newest update is from way back in late 2010, and considering that the i7 3770K was released after 2012, could this new CPU still work with this old motherboard? Or would I have to buy a completely new board?
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