Help an idiot day on pentium mobo

[spike66]

If this sounds lame, I am sorry.


I have a P4 1.8 ghz cpu. the board it is in has no name or anything on it to identify it. There is this on the cpu socket:
mPGA478
Is this a normal 478 motherboard?

(yes you guessed it,,, AMD user )

Thanks

 

[Sir Random]

It's a socket 478 mobo, but it may not be compatible with P4 chips running at 800Mhz.
There are 3 types of P4 478 cpu, running at 100Mhz, 133Mhz and 200Mhz (quad pumped to 400/533/800)

They use a,b, and c to identify the bus speeds, so a P4 2.4b runs at 533Mhz, a P4 2.4c runs at 800Mhz, etc.

I think the P4 1.8 only came in 'a' flavour (400Mhz) so the mobo may be limited to 400Mhz fsb.

There should be an ID serial number somewhere on the mobo, along an edge or between PCI slots.

 

[spike66]

It's a socket 478 mobo, but it may not be compatible with P4 chips running at 800Mhz.
There are 3 types of P4 478 cpu, running at 100Mhz, 133Mhz and 200Mhz (quad pumped to 400/533/800)

They use a,b, and c to identify the bus speeds, so a P4 2.4b runs at 533Mhz, a P4 2.4c runs at 800Mhz, etc.

I think the P4 1.8 only came in 'a' flavour (400Mhz) so the mobo may be limited to 400Mhz fsb.

There should be an ID serial number somewhere on the mobo, along an edge or between PCI slots.

Sorry, should have said. It is a 400mhz chip.

Thanks for that

 

[theredguy]

Try getting us a good picture of the mobo mate someone might recognise it.