I've done a couple of CPU upgrades but I've never had to reactivate XP, motherboards are another matter though.
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Has anyone tried replacing a 400fsb with a 533fsb?
I have an asus p4s333 with a 2.0g 400fsb. I would like to replace the chip with a 2.4g 533fsb (acquired for free) and I'm not sure if the chips are backwards compatible. Am waiting on reply from ASUS as i write (their site says board supports 400fsb).
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From my experience, pIII's that had the cpu serial number feature enabled for the last install usually need to be reactivated or even reformatted after a cpu change. Does not effect celeron counterparts, or amd as far as I know.athlon xp-m@2456mhz(12x204)
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Ok upgrade complete. Just swapped out the CPU and booted up. After shut down pc would not boot up. Pc was on and everything worked fine for several hours. Have MSI 845 Ultra mobo with D-bracket for trouble shooting. Report was lockup on VGA testing. Finally had to clear cmos then everything was ok. What happened?
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Not enough info to say, but if the fsb is different on the new 1, that could happen. Post more info.(system specs before and after).
U can put it in your prifile. The specs u see under our posts are not typed everytime.athlon xp-m@2456mhz(12x204)
tt aquariusII liquid cooled/ arctic silver ceramique
asus a7n8xe-dlx
thermaltake xaserIII lanfire
bfg 6800gt
seagate sataII 250gb/seagate 7200rpm 160gb ide
samsung dvdrw
2x1024 kingston hyper-x pc3200/ windows xp pro sp3
logitech mx518/ logitech wingman rumble
2x samsung 955df 19"/ canon i960
creative x-fi fatal1ty 64mb/ altec lansing 251-5.1
mushkin 550w
opteron 146 @ 2850 (10x285)
DFI infinity nf4 ultra
thermaltake tsunami dream -black
seagate sataII 500gb
evga 8600gt oc ssc edition
samsung sata dvd-rw
2x1024 ocz black
logitech ifeel/ nec accusync 75f
ocz fatal1ty 550w
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