Work with me here...I recently purchased an Intel Pentium e6500 processor to replace my old Pentium D. After installing the CPU I booted up my computer and nothing showed up on the montitor. at first i thought it was my graphics card but I tested it on my room mates computer and it worked fine. My next step was to try a different motherboard seeing how mine is about 5 years old but again nothing. I then reinstalled my old Pentium D back into the orignal MOBO and used the heatsink that came with the e6500 and it would start up for 8-10 seconds and shut off, I assumed the fan may have been defective and allowed the CPU to overheat? I then tried my Rocketfish heatsink on the e6500 and same thing, would stay on but no display or reaction from the lights on my mouse or keyboard. I put my old CPU back in, with the original Rocketfish fan and my computer started up just fine. Im already in the process of getting it exchanged (never again Tiger Direct) but my question is what would cause my processor to not even display an image? and why wouldnt the fan work with my old CPU? could it be a defective fan/cpu combo? lol
Specs.
Asus P5N SLI
3gb PNY DDR2667
MSI 9800t
Intel Pentium D 945 3.4ghz
Antec 550w
Zalman Thermal grease
Specs.
Asus P5N SLI
3gb PNY DDR2667
MSI 9800t
Intel Pentium D 945 3.4ghz
Antec 550w
Zalman Thermal grease