Celeron-D + 845 chipsets (Asus P4B-266)

[Xayd]

will these work together? bios update needed?

i sold off an old Asus P4B-266C to a co worker and he (retardedly) bent the pins on the 1.6A that i gave him while putting the CPU in, and despite trying to straighten them out, i still get no-memory beeps with known-working ram.

looks like Celeron-Ds are the only CPUs still sold at retail that might work in these mobos.

i "think" the bios revision the board was running was 1004, but if the bios has to be updated to support the Celeron-D CPUs, that presents a whole other set of problems (still no working CPU to fire this board up with).

[glc]

Asus has a CPU support database.

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

VERY limited - read it and weep. 400 FSB only - Willamettes and Northwoods up to 2.2 max. Geeks.com has some processors that will work.

[Panama Red]

Don't think it will work. The Cely D's are 533 fsb and your board is only 400. Here's the cpu support chart from Asus for your mobo.

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

edit: Looks like I was beaten by the master!

[Xayd]

yeah the board will run at 133mhz but i dunno if it would recognize the CPU, guess we're off to ebay for old school northwoods.

thanks.

[glc]

Geeks.com has some 400 FSB Northwoods.

It won't recognize a Cely-D because of the Prescott core, not the FSB issue.