help me quick please?

[BigTy623]

ok here we go, my neightbor needs her computer going.
i'm not very good right now with it.
she bought a amd athlon xp moble. and it's for a desktop, there both socket A will it still work.
her mother board is a asus A7400-MX-UAYZ
please help me
Tyler BeVier

 

[slackwarelinux]

Help you with what? I don't see any question marks that ask anything 🙂.

 

[BigTy623]

opps.... got to carryed away. should it work. i tryed it and it fired up but it wouldn't go to the welcome screen of xp

 

[ValuedCustomer]

Originally posted by: BigTy623
opps.... got to carryed away. should it work. i tryed it and it fired up but it wouldn't go to the welcome screen of xp

so it fit? but wouldn't post? - anywho, you sure you have the nomenclature right for the board? Asus doesn't have anything about it on their website.. which is slloooowwww as hell, btw

 

[theMan]

yeah, a lot of times the asus site doesnt work, really annoying.

anywho, is this a new build or what? have you installed windows yet? maybe you should reinstall or install windows. what exactly happens?

 

[BigTy623]

no this isn't a new build, it has windows on it.

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: BigTy623
no this isn't a new build, it has windows on it.

Ok, I'm confused. You're trying to use a HDD that had a previous installation of Windows with a different system? That might work for Linux, but I thought you couldn't do that with XP and had to reinstall it.

 

[Aquila76]

The mobo is an Asus A7400-MX. I don't know what the 'UAYZ' stuff is though. Is this in a Dell, HP/Compaq, or something?
ASUS site is down for database synch or something. A site I found Googling it says this:

ASUS A7400MX: Motherboard supports AMD Athlon XP/Sempron up to 3200+ with FSB speeds of 200/266/333/400 MHz, Chipset VIA® VT8237, Dual bus Master IDE Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133, (2) DDR sockets up to 2 GB, (3) PCI , (1) 8x AGP, (4) USB, PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse Connector, USB 2.0 controller, onboard RealTek ALC655 Audio Sound, S3 Graphics UniChrome w/ up to 64MB shared memory.

Apparently it is a VIA KM400A based mobo. I don't know if that handles the mobile chips or not.

 

[BigTy623]

ok here we go, i'm sorry i didn't say this in the beginng but, the reson why she got a new prossccer is that the other one took a crap on her and i wasn't there when she bought this one so thats why she got a amd alothon moble

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: BigTy623
ok here we go, i'm sorry i didn't say this in the beginng but, the reson why she got a new prossccer is that the other one took a crap on her and i wasn't there when she bought this one so thats why she got a amd alothon moble

I don't see anything on ASUS site saying it's mobile capable:
ASUS mobo link
[Mobo CPU chart]http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=A7V400-MX[/L]

Under specs, it just lists AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred/Barton processors. I'm not that familiar with the Socket A AMD's, so maybe someone else can point out if one of these CPU's are mobile or not. It doesn't look that way to me, though.
Can she return the CPU and get a Socket A XP non-mobile? That would be her best bet.

 

[Aquila76]

One other thing to check, what BIOS rev is she running? If it's too old, it may not support the chip. Try using the latest BIOS and see what happens.

BIOS DL Link
BIOS Flash guide