asus p4t533-c and intel prescott 3.0e

[cavscout]

I just tried to upgrade my old p4t533-c mobo with a Intel Pentium 4 3.0E Prescott 3.0GHz Socket 478 Processor Model RK80546PG0801M. The chip came with a few bent pins that I was able to bend back... they were not bent that bad at all. When I turned on my pc, nothing happened... no video out, no beeps... just the fans whirring. I put my old cpu back in and got sent to bios to fix an impropper cpu frequency message.

Is this a bad cpu or is it incompatible... My mobo is 533 and the chip 800mhz fsb. But others have said they got similar processors to work.

Home Built Tower
mobo= p4t533-c
Video Card gigabyte geforce 7600 (also tried geforce 4 ti4400)
512mb rdram
old proc, p4d 1.5 ghz
sb live

Not overclocking

Thanks for the help!

 

[exit2dos]

The Prescott requires different voltage (1.25 - 1.4V) compared to the older Northwood cores (1.525 - 1.6V). Your mobo won't support it.

Your best bet would be to RMA (if you can) your Prescott, and get a 533fsb Northwood. You could replace your mobo with a Prescott compatible one, but I don't know of any that use RDRAM.