CPU HELP PLEASE!!

[Jukesy]

Morning,

After buying myself a AMD Athlon San Diego 3700+, i decided to install the processor yesterday after i was told i didnt need to do anything other than take the old one out and put this one in. Now my old processor was a Winchester 3200+ running on the Asus A8V Deluxe absolutely fine, took it out put this one in an drebooted to get this message:

*****UNKNOWN PROCESSOR REVISION*****

The processor installed in your system are of unknown revision, please contact your bios vendor for appropriate updates.

FATAL ERROR, SYSTEM HALTED

So how am i going to get round this i thought, so i reset the bios and still the same error. Is is a bios update and if so how do i do it please? i cannot get into the bios or nothing?

Please help......
Regards,
Kris

 

[Jukesy]

so i need to put my old cpu back in, awwww means i need to get some Thermal interface stuff then yeah?

If i pop to PC World tonight and pick up some of the coolmaster TI will that be good enough? How do i go about applying it please? (Never done it before )

Thanks
KRis

 

[Jukesy]

Thanks, i bought some of the Akasa TIM cleaner which was quite good at getting the gunk off...ive just also bought the Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro to put on the 3700+ once i got it working!

So do i put the thermal interface on the heatsink or the processor?

Thanks for your help all,

Cheers
Kris

 

[Jukesy]

Thanks Siruis B,

I shall do what you guys have told me to get it working!!

Wont be getting my Arctic Freezer till Wednesday so might aswell put the 3200+ in like you said and use that till then!

Thanks again guys, i knew i came to the right place!!

Cheers
Kris