emachine d3024 not support athlon?

[ming2000]

my emachine d3024 works perfect for me before. today I tried to change its sempron to an athlon, then alarm that next to cpu start beeping and system cannot boot. I tried the other athlon cpu, cannot boot either. I checked the manual of the mobo, it is K7MNF-64, it supports both sempron and athlon and it detects the cpu automatically. now i suspect that emachine somehow locked the cpu type on this model, so the mobo cannot support athlon, anyone can confirm it? or any idea?

 

[Tsuwamono]

this may be a stupid question but your emachines isnt a 754 and your trying to install a 939 right... you have checked that?

 

[ming2000]

thx for response, both my mobo and cpu are socket A, actually from the manual of the mobo, it says that it can support my cpu, so i just have no idea why it cannot boot

 

[Tsuwamono]

something is conficting. you say its socket A yet the mobo type says its a 64bit model.. well if its a socket A model make sure you put in a Athlon XP model and not Athlon 64. although how you would get a 939 athlon into a socket A mobo is beyond me.

 

[ming2000]

i dont know why they name their mobo as xxx-64, but it is a socketA mobo, the previous cpu is sempron 3000, which is a socket A, the cpu i wanna install is an athlon 2700, a socket A too.

 

[betasub]

If emachines have done what you suspect, then it wil be through the BIOS not being able to recognise other CPUs. Try searching for info on your BIOS or alternative BIOS downloads (newer or older, because Athlon XP is an older CPU id than Sempron for Socket A).

 

[ming2000]

do u mean emachine cannot change the architecture of the mobo, right now I cannot even boot it and have no way to change the settings.

 

[grooge]

the 64 bits thing don't apply to the cpu, but to the chipset memory controller, being single channel, as opposed to the real nforce2 chipset that was dual channel. Not that it would matter that much with the those CPU, but anyway..

What you could try is to start the machine and hold the "insert" key. That would bypass any BIOS setting on nforce2 motherboard and load safe setting. from there, you could try to manually set up your CPU

 

[Zekey]

Not sure idf this will help, but I have an old Emachines here that does the same thing (Beeps, no boot) when anything other than how it shipped stock is plugged in. (I tried switching out the RAM- no flow.)

 

[Aluvus]

The normal retail Sempron 3000 on Socket A is a remarked Athlon XP Barton at 2.0 GHz with all its cache intact. The only thing they changed was the name. That would place it squarely between the Athlon XP 2600+ and 2800+ Barton. If this is the case for yours, then there's really no good reason to swap for the Athlon XP 2700+ (Thoroughbred B) unless you killed the Sempron.

However, it's conceivable that eMachines stuck in some OEM-only part with different particulars. That would be another situation entirely.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Did you reconnect the cpu fan?