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x4 965

Yosiah

Yosiah

Yosiah

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So I bought an x4 965 today to replace my AMD 7750 in my M3A78 Pro motherboard. The computer boots to POST, and I can view Bios, but when it gets half way through the windows xp loading bar, it flashes - very quickly - a BSOD and then restarts. It does this over and over.

I tried updating to the latest bios, which i KNOW supports the X4 965 125w variant, but it still does the same thing.

Should I put the X4 in the motherboard and install windows xp from scratch? I can't think what else would be the problem. The motherboard only has once Processor ATX socket, unless I am supposed to get one of those adapters so i can use both my power plugs into it?
 
What memory are you using, it may be the case of increasing the memory voltage and setting the speed & timings.
 
I am using:

AK-P060FG8, Akasa 600W PSU.
M3A78 Pro Asus Motherboard.
Corsair Twin2048 6400 RAM

The psu has two 4 pin connectors for the motherboard, but my motherboard only has one 4 pin socket. I presume this isn't the problem because the M3A78 Pro support page over at asus says the motherboard supports the X4 965, and I have updated to the required bios version.

What would I try doing with the ram? I Left everything at Auto and I thought the FSB of an X4 965 was 200, just like my original X2 7750 BE.

I tried to reinstall Windows, which was a right faff, because I still had to swap the CPU back to the 7750. I got a BSOD when it tried to boot into windows setup saying something along the lines of "blah blah blah new hardware etc" and "BAD POOL CALL" or something".

Any suggestions?
 
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Clear the cmos to reset the new bios? Mine had a fewq issues once with a new bios but clearing cmos solved the issue.

Were you overclocking? ensure evrythign is back to default
 
I just upgraded my CPU and like welshdragon said - clearing the CMOS to reinitialise the BIOS parameters is a very good idea. This will make sure all the settings for the old CPU are flushed out completely.
 
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