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Celeron prob.. is it fried?

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mason_msw

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Bought a retail celeron d 2.66 ghz that is going into my brothers computer and before it came in I had my P4 in his comp because the processor was the only thing we needed. So with it in there everything was working fine. I got my celly in the mail just now put it in and the P.O.S. won't boot. Took the heatsink off, and the thermal paste was completely dry (it was already on the retail heatsink) and half of it was stuck on the processor so I cleaned it off and used some other paste and its still dead... is this processor fried? Or is there anything else that could be messed up. Only other thing I did was put a cd burner in it. Plase help me out A.S.A.P.
 
mobo may not be compatible the 2.66 celly is a prescott cpu. May not bet supported.
 
No the motherboard supports prescotts, I tested the sys with a P4 and it worked fine so I've decided its fried. How likely is it that I get one fried out of the box.
 
You may of already done this...but did you clear the BIOS settings using the jumper on the motherboard. Since you had the PC running on a different processor, it may be trying to post with the previous processor settings which don't match the newer processor settings (Mulitplier, FSB, cpu vcore etc)

I would try that. I assume the processor came out of a sealed Intel box or is it OEM? If sealed Intel box I highly doubt it is already dead, but anything is possible. Plus, in order to have "fried" it, it would have to atleast worked at some point in time to be fried.

Anyways, good luck getting up & running : )
 
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