Mark,
If the mainbord is not wired to the case you need to short the mainboard
power switch jumper to boot the system.
If it does for a fraction of time or your cpu stays ice cold, the power
supply may lack power to supply board, cpu and dimm. Get a bigger one.
HTH,
John7
"Mark Larsen" <mark_removeme_.TakeThisOut@comxnet.dk> wrote in message
news:CVc2d.4308$Cm6.2193@news.get2net.dk...
> Hi all
>
> I have bought a new P4 2.8Ghz CPU to upgrade my MX46-533V mobo.
>
> On the aopen homepage it is listet as has been passed on thios mobo but
> the cpu wont work on this mobo I have triede allmost everything - reset
> bios - unplugged everything to see if i had enough power but this CPU
> stays ice cold - and unoperational - the only thing I havn't tried is to
> get another memory module the one im using now is a 400MHZ FSB
> card - my question is does the P4 which has a 533FSB requires a
> 533MHZ FSB memory module to operate.
>
> All taken into consideration the CPU should work with the memory I
> have for the moment if it makes 7*400=2.8Ghz but I have not been
> able to find any information on whether the CPU FSB and the Memory FSB
> should correspond to each other.
>
> Any Ideas ?
>
> Regards
> Mark Larsen
>
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