I just recently purchased a p4 3.0e prescott (socket 478) cpu w/ a zalman 9500a heatsink/fan from newegg. Btw, a have p4c800-e deluxe mobo. I prepped the cpu w/ artic silver 5 thermal paste. I checked all the wires and secured everything before i booted up. The computer booted up but there wasn't any display. I then went back to my old p4 2.4c cpu and everything was back to normal. I checked out the asus website for a solution. It stated that I needed a bios upgrade to enable my motherboard to use the prescott cpu. I download the most recent asus live update program (for windows xp) and selected the 1019 bios (my original is bios 1014). I flashed it via the asus live update program and it prompted me to restart. upon restarting, i got a bad checksum error @ boot but I was able to go through windows. I restarted again and the checksum error was gone. I then powered down and replaced my old 2.4c cpu w/ the newer 3.0e prescott. I re-prepped it w/ artic silver 5 and re-installed the zalman heatsink/fan. It booted and was able to detect bios menu, grub menu (since i dual boot), and boot up to windows. Here lies my problem, a couple minutes later there was a burning smell coming from the power supply. At first I thought it was the artic silver paste from the cpu or the cpu in general. I quickly cut off the power and checked out if my motherboard or other components were fried. So far, my motherboard is fine. My cpu, when i went into the bios menu, was showing 38 deg C (i touched the heatsink and it was nowhere near hot). I assumed that my psu was crapping out since my i was still able to boot multiple times into the bios menu, grub menu, and even load windows xp. Did i miss any steps from this install? Do i need a higher PSU (preferably 500+ watt compared to the 430 watt i have?). I'm not planning on overclocking this setup. I just want a decent upgrade for this aging mobo before i move on to a different setup. Can anyone please help me out? I will greatly appreciate it.
My specs:
- p4c800-e deluxe
- p4 2.4c upgraded to p4 3.0e prescott (socket 478)
- zalman 9500a hsf
- 3 gb ram (x 2 gb g.skill sticks & x2 512 mb corsair sticks)
- ati radeon 9800 pro agp
- 430 watt (tawainese brand)
- 250 gb hdd (dual boot)
- 4 fans (2 front, 1 rear, & 1 top)
My specs:
- p4c800-e deluxe
- p4 2.4c upgraded to p4 3.0e prescott (socket 478)
- zalman 9500a hsf
- 3 gb ram (x 2 gb g.skill sticks & x2 512 mb corsair sticks)
- ati radeon 9800 pro agp
- 430 watt (tawainese brand)
- 250 gb hdd (dual boot)
- 4 fans (2 front, 1 rear, & 1 top)