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E7400 Not Compatible With P35?

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becton226   05-07-2009 at 07:06:22 AM

I have a MSI P35 Platinum Motherboard and i just installed an Intel E7400 cpu in it. It will not post. I read some reviews on Newegg that a lot of people are having problems with the msi p35 not working with the E7400. Is this a common problem or did i just get a bad cpu?

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abhijith   05-07-2009 at 07:22:15 AM
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Did you try updating the mobo's bios?

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becton226   05-07-2009 at 07:27:18 AM
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Yes the bios is the latest from MSI

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Bronze Motherboards badge GhislainG   05-07-2009 at 07:33:45 PM
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Is it on your motherboard's list of supported CPUs? If so, does it support the E7400 revision that you have?

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becton226   05-08-2009 at 03:03:40 AM
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Intel Core 2 Duo is on the list of supported CPUs. Not sure what revision is?

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Bronze Motherboards badge GhislainG   05-08-2009 at 02:34:43 PM
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Intel Core 2 Duo being on the list doesn't imply that all Core 2 Duo
CPUs will work. You have to check the list at MSI to be sure that a specific CPU is supported: http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-MSI/ [...] 7345).html

According to that site, the E7400 is supported with BIOS version 1.9. Is your BIOS at version 1.9 or more?

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becton226   05-08-2009 at 08:53:27 PM
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Not 100% sure it is version 1.9, but i updated it about 1 month ago, so it should be. Im guessing i just got a bad CPU. Thanks for the help, I'll update this thread and let everyone know if my new CPU works after I RMA this one. Thanks for pointing me to that cpu-upgrade site Honorary Poster, great resource there!

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Bronze Motherboards badge GhislainG   05-08-2009 at 10:14:14 PM
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You should have BIOS version 1.10 since it was released on Nov. 10, 2008.

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becton226   05-11-2009 at 09:43:59 PM
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Ok, I found the problem. Before I RMA'd my CPU I tried one last thing. I had 4 gigs of ram installed and decided to pull 2 sticks just to see what would happen. With only 2 gigs of ram it posted with no problems. Not sure why this was the case, but thought I'd let everyone know. Thanks for all the help!

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Bronze Motherboards badge GhislainG   05-11-2009 at 09:50:13 PM
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It depends on the memory modules that you have. It's always more difficult to drive 4 modules, particularly if they are overclocked, etc.

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