Abit TH7II-raid

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I would like to know can this board support Pentium 4 2.8GHz 533 1Mb prescot.
I want to upgrade old board and because all northwoods are running, i wonder will prescot do.
VCore 1.1 - 2.2

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Please tell me does anybody know does prescott work on TH7II motherboard, i can buy one for 15$ just waiting confirmation

[0iD]

No, Prescots wont work in this board apparently, only Northwoods.

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Thanks

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Just updated microcode with all new versions of it for prescott 0f49 , 0f41, 0f33, 0f34. Old processor is working fine. I will put Prescott in motherboard anyway. I would like to ask what will hapend even if it is still unsupported. Will it all blow up or just would not boot.

[0iD]

It just wont boot s'all, worth a crack
Good luck.

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Just bought Northwood 2.8/478/512/533
If works 3.16Ghz for now, everything is ok for now, it is cool even if overclocked and northbridge too 150MHz.
Well that is nice. for old pc. This CPU can even up tp 4GHz. Do not know how to reduce RdRam Multiplier.


Need this Pc for multiplayer games when friends come to me.

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Extereme failure
happend to my pc.

Do not know what it is.

It become unstable and restarted few times, then i pressed shud down to reset it. After 3 seconds i pressed power on and NOTHING......


First i tought it is Northwood sudden dead sindrome, but then i plug in my Wilmate 1.5GHz and it was the same, so Northwood 2.8 is probabbly ok.

Sympthoms are:

Motherboard is in stand by, green led on it is lighting.
When you press power on, nothing happens.
Cpu cooler is not spinning
Psu cooler is not spinning
Absolutely nothing is happening.

Could it be capacitors are old?

[BUFF]

could be but it could also be that your PSU has failed.

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Just pluged in old psu and it is the same.

So problem is probbably in motherboard.

Few hours before it went down i pluged in x1950 pro agp.
But i forgor to put white agp lever which hold card in place.
When you move lever card moves a little bit too, so i am thinking could it be that card was not proerly pluged in agp port and cousing short circuits?
Is there any evidence of not properly pluged card burning motherboard.

After all there is green stand by led on board which is lighting.

[BUFF]

what PSUs have you been using?
& was this X1950 a new addition?

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Psu is Frontier 550W.
I was using x1950 before, but i used another and i switched cards.

What should be done to capacitors if they are old

[BUFF]

I'm not familiar with that PSU.

you can visually inspect the board to see if any caps are swollen & leaking.
If they are you can either toss the board or replace the affected caps if you are very handy with a soldering iron or willing to pay someone to do it for you.

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Just one more question for this board.

Because i bought new psu for it, fwe months ago, psu didnt had axu conector, so we cut it from old psu and put it on new psu, where sata power connector was.

If itis badly connected could it be that baord would not stard because of that.
What will happend if there is no aux power connector in board. Would it start up?