XP 2400+ and KT266A

[Dan0368]

I have this motherboard:

K7T266 PRO 2U

and as you can see, it supports up to Athlon XP 2600+'s and above. I'm upgrading from a 1600+, and when I snap the new processor in (2400+), I get no image or POST or anything. Everything runs and gets power, but that seems to be about it. I've cleared CMOS, and also updated the BIOS to no avail. I'm kinda stumped here, any ideas?

Thanks for any and all help.

This table also shows that the CPU and motherboard are compatible

Compatability Table

 

[Killrose]

Dead CPU?

 

[nebula]

If you pop the 1600+ back in, does everything work ok? The only thing other than dead CPU is inadequate PS. Although there shouldn't be much power requirement difference between a 1600+ and a 2400+ If when you put the 1600+ back in it doesn't work, I'd suspect the mobo, bad flash?

EDIT: MSI has forums too you may want to check.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Definetly try out the old CPU again, and while doing that flashing the BIOS wouldn't be a bad idea. In my experience, It would not seem that this is a CPU problem. If things like the keyboard are at least getting power, it's probably something else (the one time I had a dead CPU, and I knew it was dead, mind you, When I pressed power, NOTHING happened).

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

is the speaker hooked up?

 

[cjr22]

Doesn't that mobo have the DLED bracket for diagnositic reporting? If you hook that up to the header on the board (near the PCI slots) then by looking in the manual you can work our at which point it's failing. I've got one of those mobos here at work and the DLED was really useful when we had problems with the CPU.