It is very possible they have locked the BIOS which on many modern
Motherboards does the support work for CPU's.
It is not worth the trouble, aggravation or possibly disabling the
motherboard by fiddling with it to go any farther with it.
The original advice you were offered by many still applies. Get a
new MB and memory to pair up with your processor and go for it.
Stewart
At 09:56 PM 1/25/2009, you wrote:
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.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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