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Old April 6th 04, 10:29 PM
John Smith
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Paul, thanks for that information. The upgrade is more complicated than it
used to be I see. I think I will buy a new hard drive for C and experiment
with this a bit, Thanks for the information, Mike

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I thought that I would up my performance so I bought a P4-3.06 HT and

was
going to replace the P4-2.4 in my ASUS P4T533 motherboard, which is a
revision 1.03 with BIOS 1.06, heat sink on chipset not fan. PC Power

and
Cooling 450 ATX-PFC watt power supply. Well the BOIS recognized it just
fine, XP started once and I was able to see the P4-3.06 showing as 2
processors as it does with an HT cpu, and then all kinds of problems

began,
blue screens, looping restarts, etc. Has anyone ever been successful
upgrading from a non-HT processor to an HT processor? Thanks, Mike


Does this have something to do with the HAL used on the OS install ?
This article mentions the types, and maybe the multiprocessor
version is required ?

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=234558

The other possibility is you have one of the boards that cannot
handle a 3.06GHz processor. Possibly a Vcore power problem.
Search in groups.google.com for "P4T533 Serial Number" to see
the comments about production date and the possibilities of
running a 3.06GHz properly. Look at the bottom of this post
for a sample comment:


http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...rr.com&rnum=11

The theory goes, that the more power drawn from an early rev
board, the more unstable it gets. Disabling HT might cut the
power a bit, for example. Or reducing the FSB etc. If the
board is still under warranty, you might RMA it to get one
that will work with a 3.06GHz HT processor.

HTH,
Paul