I just bought a Celeron 2.2ghz chip and after an hour trying things out, I came to the obvious conclusion that it would only work on one of my motherboards, while my P4 2.4B chip would work on perfectly either.
- on my Asus P4P800 motherboard: Both the Celeron and p4 worked fine on it.
- on my ECS L4S8A2 motherboard: Only the P4 ran on it. With the Celeron in, it just sits there not even getting to bios (monitor doesnt even register that a computer is powered up even).
I know that some bios patches provide support for more CPU's so I checked ECS's website in hope of some sort of bios upgrade that would provide support for my Celeron (after all this is the motherboard I planned to use it on).. but my search turned up in vain. No new bios patches since January. *gasp*
So, is it that not all motherboards that can run a Pentium can run a Celeron as well? I thought they were interchangeable chips??
*note that the ECS L4S8A2 is a SiS-based motherboard while the Asus P4P800 is intel-based.. but I didnt think that made a difference
Please help
- on my Asus P4P800 motherboard: Both the Celeron and p4 worked fine on it.
- on my ECS L4S8A2 motherboard: Only the P4 ran on it. With the Celeron in, it just sits there not even getting to bios (monitor doesnt even register that a computer is powered up even).
I know that some bios patches provide support for more CPU's so I checked ECS's website in hope of some sort of bios upgrade that would provide support for my Celeron (after all this is the motherboard I planned to use it on).. but my search turned up in vain. No new bios patches since January. *gasp*
So, is it that not all motherboards that can run a Pentium can run a Celeron as well? I thought they were interchangeable chips??
*note that the ECS L4S8A2 is a SiS-based motherboard while the Asus P4P800 is intel-based.. but I didnt think that made a difference
Please help
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