out of ideas

i ordered a p4p800e deluxe about a year ago and had been very happy with it. i had a 3.2 C0 prescott running at 3.77Ghz with no problems. i ordered a new cpu (P4 3.2 D0)to get a higher overclock and it installed and ran fine for about 30 hours. when i came home from work the fans and lights were still on but there was no display. the cpu and ram were ice cold.

I put a 1.6 P4 in the board and got nothing, tested the ram and PSU both are ok. I assumed it was the board that had died so i orderd another one, got it yesterday. i installed everything in the new board and turned it on. the fans and lights came on but there was no display, the ram and cpu didn't get warm at all. i tried a 2.4 and a 1.6 in the new board and got the same result.

whats wrong here???
thanks!

im pretty sure a X.XC means the chip is in fact a northwood, and not a prescott.
the 1.6 might have been a wilamette.
the 3.2D i think is the prescott.

im pretty sure the p4p800X- series is for northwoods, put a prescott into one of those, and youll pull way too much power and fry it. especially overclocking one. i think a few of them in that line are so called "prescott ready" and im allmost sure one of the P4P-800X series was made specifically for prescotts, but you likely put a prescott onto one of the northwood only boards.
as for the 1.6, if thats a wilamette P4 i dont think it would work on that board anyway (who knows, might damage it too?).
im sure ive fudged some details, but i think this might be the general problem you are facing.

have you tried a different video card? Power supply?

the P4P800's can handle a prescott, though they will get strained when overclocking but if adequately cooled, will do the job.

A 1.6ghz willamette is not going to be a problem for the P4P800 boards. That is not the problem.

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ok, well i had a 3.2 prescott running in it fine, it was a C0, i ordered a D0 to get a better OC, it ran for like 30hours and died. the 2.4 is a 533FSB chip and is a northwood, the 1.6 is a willamette. all 3 chips should work fine in this board, but none of the 3 will do anything, the 1.6 and 2.4 are both running in another system right now.

i have a watercooling setup, so temps are no problem. i have tried 2 different video cards, different ram and a different PSU, all have lead me no where.

I even took the 2.4, the ram and PSU from the problem build and put it on another board and it worked fine. Everything works in another build other than the 2 asus p4p800's and the 3.2. i have no other boards that support a 800FSB so i can't test the 3.2.

it seems odd that a 1 years old mobo and a brand new one have the exact same problem. the new one never even booted at all!!! I took it from its box, installed the cpu, ram, etc and never even got a beep out of it!

wow, i wasnt even in the ballpark. my apoligies.
do you possibly need a bios flash for support of that particular chip? something odd like that?

hey, no problem man, we all make mistakes! no big deal!

I dont think i need a BIOS flash. that can't be the problem anyway, my first board worked fine with a 3.2 C0 for a year and now both boards fail to do anything with a 1.6, a 2.4 and 3.2 chip!