Took your advice and spent an hour with Compaq support. Compaq says that the motherboard is locked and only supports the original AMD Athlon 3500+ processor. They were unable to provide any documentation for this, so I guess I have my answer unless someone knows something different. Can a MB be "unlocked" or is it a permanent thing.
Thanks to all who weighed in on this. Richard P. On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Jeff Wright <jswri...@gmail.com> wrote: > You most likely need a BIOS update. If you haven't already, pull out the > new CPU and install the original CPU. > > According to this page, this CPU might work, but maybe not. That depends on > the model of the CPU: http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASUS/A8M2N-LA.html. > HP/Compaq says it will support an X2 CPU: http://tinyurl.com/4w7zau. > > This page describes the BIOS update procedure: http://tinyurl.com/cohgc7 > > But, it directs you to a page for this model and no BIOS update is listed: > http://tinyurl.com/b257xv > > Bets to contact Compaq support on this one. > >> -----Original Message----- >> Both are AM2 sockets. Here's the MB link: http://tinyurl.com/abeoja > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
