recently the guy who does our lawn work gave me a top of the line mobo that he said that he didnt have any use for it. it is a giga byte ga-81nxp. and so i figured that what i would do is take the cpu out of my p4 gateway box and put it in the mobo.well the gatway was a strugle to open and once i did i found the heat sink was stuck to the cpu so got them apart. now the problem is that the cpu is mounted on this PCB then the pcb goes in to the sockit. ( visual exapmple below) how do i get the cpu off the pcb? it is not soldered just pressure fit...
here is a visual example
fan and heat sink |||||||||||||||||||
proc ======
pcb =========
socket +++++++++++
as you can see the heat sink and fan is mounted on the proc and the proc is mounted on the pcb the pcb has pins comming off it that go into the socket.
So you are wanting to replace your motherboard with the one you just aquired. The motherboard you have requires a P4 with a wierd PCB board attached. It sounds like your P4 is an older (original) P4. They made these for like 6 months before they changed the socket to the new standard.
The older chips are a waste because they made limited chips and boards. You can't find those older chips anymore and the boards are just as rare. The older chips are the same size of P3 chips, but have the center characteristics of a P4.
They might have different amount of pins. The older P4's had 423 Pins. The newer ones have 478.
I didn't find anything on your board. Giga-Byte.com doesn't recognize that board number. Given your aximsite status I'd think your screwing around. The only thing else I can think of is a Pentium II board "slot" with a "sloket" converter to support the P3 standard. Then your confusing the old P4 chip with a P3 chips. What does the socket on the motherboard say on it? 423? 478? Socket 7?
So you are wanting to replace your motherboard with the one you just aquired. The motherboard you have requires a P4 with a wierd PCB board attached. It sounds like your P4 is an older (original) P4. They made these for like 6 months before they changed the socket to the new standard.
The older chips are a waste because they made limited chips and boards. You can't find those older chips anymore and the boards are just as rare. The older chips are the same size of P3 chips, but have the center characteristics of a P4.
They might have different amount of pins. The older P4's had 423 Pins. The newer ones have 478.
I didn't find anything on your board. Giga-Byte.com doesn't recognize that board number. Given your aximsite status I'd think your screwing around. The only thing else I can think of is a Pentium II board "slot" with a "sloket" converter to support the P3 standard. Then your confusing the old P4 chip with a P3 chips. What does the socket on the motherboard say on it? 423? 478? Socket 7?
actully i was on that boards status page a minut ago.... it is an older mobo.
^ thatd be it. mine has everything that it lists. exept for one thing and that is later i nthe artical (secound page) it says that there is a lack of diag leds. mine has a few. the is one l;abeled RAM LED there is one on the dps labled LED and there is one near the top i think... mybe mine is a later revision?
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