Hello,
My configuration is the following:
Motherboard: ASUS M2NPV-MX, Bios version 1305
Graphic card: Gigabyte Geforce GT 640 DDR3 factory OC
PSU: Silver Power SP-400P1B
RAM: 5 GB DDR2 667 MHz goodram
Current CPU: Athlon 64 3800+
New CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640
I'm well aweare that the motherboard is PRETTY old, but it never gave my ANY problems, as well as the PSU. Also, the new CPU I'm trying to put in is on the list of supported CPU's for this board:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboard/M2NPVMX/#support_CPU
I have updated the bios to the latest version using AsusUpdate (yeah I know but it worked...). The symptoms are the following:
Old CPU- all is good
New CPU- fan are spinning, pc powers up, power diod is on but thats about it. Screen is dark, nothing is happening. Going back to old CPU again - works fine.... in fact I'm writing this post on the PC running the old CPU
Did I missed something along a way? Some specific setting in the bios I should turn on or smg? I will be very thankful for some suggestions, I would like to be sure that I tried everything before spending 100$ for a new PSU....
I tried dissconnecting the graphic card and even the hard drive to lower the power usage but it didn't made a difference, the PC still wont work with the new CPU. Is the power consumption betten those two CPU's really that different that the quad-core would "shut down" the whole PC?
best
My configuration is the following:
Motherboard: ASUS M2NPV-MX, Bios version 1305
Graphic card: Gigabyte Geforce GT 640 DDR3 factory OC
PSU: Silver Power SP-400P1B
RAM: 5 GB DDR2 667 MHz goodram
Current CPU: Athlon 64 3800+
New CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640
I'm well aweare that the motherboard is PRETTY old, but it never gave my ANY problems, as well as the PSU. Also, the new CPU I'm trying to put in is on the list of supported CPU's for this board:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboard/M2NPVMX/#support_CPU
I have updated the bios to the latest version using AsusUpdate (yeah I know but it worked...). The symptoms are the following:
Old CPU- all is good
New CPU- fan are spinning, pc powers up, power diod is on but thats about it. Screen is dark, nothing is happening. Going back to old CPU again - works fine.... in fact I'm writing this post on the PC running the old CPU
Did I missed something along a way? Some specific setting in the bios I should turn on or smg? I will be very thankful for some suggestions, I would like to be sure that I tried everything before spending 100$ for a new PSU....
I tried dissconnecting the graphic card and even the hard drive to lower the power usage but it didn't made a difference, the PC still wont work with the new CPU. Is the power consumption betten those two CPU's really that different that the quad-core would "shut down" the whole PC?
best