20 Most Recent Intel (P42000400512SK478) Pentium 4, 2 GHz Processor Questions & Answers

Type of RAM supported has nothing to do with the processor make & type in most cases. It is more important to verify that the motherboard supports this kind of RAM.
In general, most motherboards supporting the Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz processor support also DDR1 RAM.

Download and run the Windows Upgrade Advisor:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b544e90-7659-4bd9-9e51-2497c146af15

pentium 4 2ghz socket 478, either a northwood or prescott type of processor, visit this link for your reference when buying a processor for your motherboard,

http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/Socket%20478%20(mPGA478B).html

If removing the black powder was damaging to the processor then your system wouldn't start at all.

If I am interpreting this correctly, your PC is only hanging when you restart. It sounds like what you did was pull the heatsink and fan off of the processor and you wiped away that black powder/smudge junk that OEM vendors such as HP use as thermal material between the heat sink and processor.

Some systems do that. It's to be expected. It COULD be caused by a temperature sensor detecting higher temps, though. (Although that's not likely if it's still starting when you shut it down completely and then start it back up.)


The first thing you want to do is re-seat the CPU in it's socket. I don't know what kind of CPU you have so I don't know what kind of socket it is. Be careful in doing so and if you don't know how to open and close the socket then do a little research online for some instructions; or come back here and tell me what kind of CPU you have.

After re-seating the CPU correctly, you want to be sure to clean the die of the CPU with some kind of solvent (such as alcohol) to get rid of any grease or random chemical build-ups. If there is still sticky residue on the CPU from the thermal material, you can normally get rid of that using a bit of WD-40 on a cloth. (DO NOT APPLY ANY CHEMICALS DIRECTLY TO THE DIE OF THE CPU. PUT IT ON A CLOTH FIRST.) If you use WD-40 to clean the CPU die, use alcohol to clean up the WD-40 afterwards.

Do the same to the bottom of the heatsink. Apply WD-40 directly to the bottom of the heatsink if you like. It tends to eat away all of the sticky junk well enough that you can just scrap it off. Clean the surface with alcohol afterwards.

Get yourself some thermal paste from either Radio Shack or an online store. (Radio Shack is currently selling Arctic Silver thermal paste. Good stuff.) Apply just a SMALL DAB of it to the die of the processor and spread it around until you have a nice, thin and even layer of it. (You don't need a ton of it on there.)

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OPTIONAL STEP FOR BETTER RESULTS:
If the heatsink is rough on the bottom of it, you can buy sandpaper and sand the bottom of it flat and smooth on top of a flat, glass panel. Make sure to give it a good, smooth finish with a fine sandpaper. This will give it a good, flat surface to make contact with the CPU and will help thermal transfer a great deal. Clean the heatsink and apply it to the top of the CPU carefully.
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MAKE SURE THAT THE HEATSINK IS NOT FACING THE WRONG DIRECTION WHEN YOU PLACE THE HEATSINK ON THE CPU AGAIN. If you do, it may actually sit on the socket that the CPU is in rather than on top of the CPU itself. If you turn it on like that, you may burn the processor.

Lock the heatsink down onto the processor as normal.

That junk that OEM vendors put on CPU's should be banned. It's better than nothing...but not by much. They tend to use junk heatsinks and even worse thermal transfer material.

I doubt you damaged your CPU by taking off a little bit of the thermal material like that. However I'm not saying that it's not possible, either. It most likely just got a little bit hot afterwards if anything.

At the very least, clean the surface of the heatsink and the CPU and put some thermal paste there between them. Things should run fine after that. But if your system continues to hang on a restart, then I wouldn't panic. Mine does that sometimes. No big deal. I just shut it down instead of restarting it and turn it back on.

Either way... If you follow these instructions and have a better cooling situation, you're going to experience a bit more stability and possibly better performance with your system.

Let me know how it goes.

Cyryl

yes it will support

Have you tried to review the systems requirements for Windows 7? In case you don't, try to review this system requirements and see if your PC falls in. If not, then its the primary cause of the "lag" computer.

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
  
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
  

haw can upgrade pentium3 to pentium 4

in the BIOS-setup, normally you can adapt the bus speed. as it's running at about 400mhz, i suppose it's set to auto. within the advanced system settings, you should be able to set the bus config to manual and then you can choose the appropriate bus speed below.

If you know what mother board you have you could check what RAM it can use.

All RAM is installed in the same way, but different types of RAM are keyed differently. That basically means that one type of RAM (for example SD RAM) will simply not fit into another type of RAM slot (for example a DDR RAM slot).

To install ram on a PC
Please note - do NOT touch the connector side of the RAM, handle it only by holding the side or top edge
1. check that you have the right type of RAM. do this by lining up the RAM above the RAM slot and making sure that the RAM is the same length as the RAM slot AND ALSO that the RAM's key (the little hole or notch in the RAM) lines up with the key in the RAM slot. Note there might be more than one key
2. open both clips of the RAM slot by pushing them down and out from the center of the RAM slot
3. gently insert the RAM into the RAM slot
4. check again that the RAM and the RAM slot's key's line up, if they do, firmly press down on the RAM on both corners until both clips automatically click shut on the RAM

That's it! :-)

-Magnon

You can't format windows while it is in use..use the windows installation disk to format and install the fresh copy of windows..

Generally you will see core temps around 50C with a stock fan and no overclocking, that is if you run fully loaded 100% cpu usage. But this is all highly dependent on what type of cooling you have. A program like GIMPS Prime 95 will test your processor. The max temp for most of the Pentium 4 series is 85C, but to know all the details we need to know which core you have. Wikipedia would help you determine which core you have, or you can download a program that will tell you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4

here you go

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa975050.aspx

The GA-8IE comes with the 845E chipset. The below link will provide a list of all the processors the board will support.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=1320

It appears that the fastest it will support is the P4 Prescott, Northwood, or Extreme @ 3.4GHz (800MHz FSB).

Hope this is the information you were looking for.

MO

if the computer does not come on when you press the power button, check all of your cables and make sure they are attached right, if they are, you could have a bad power supply aka "psu" you can purchace a power supply from any computer store for 30-100 bucks i would recommend at least a 300 watt power supply if you are using a desktop pc. you can also have it tested at most computer repair shops.

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remove the dime battery form mother board

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Hello,

This is normal behavior. Fans normally only run when they are needed, and your computer has multiple temperature sensors that direct this behavior (they are primarily located on the CPU, which could explain why the fans all worked when you took the CPU out). You should only be concerned about the fans stopping if your computer is, indeed, overheating.

To upgrade from pentium 3 to P4 you have to change alot of the hardware.

You need a NEW P4 Socket mPGA 475 Motherboard.
New DDR RAM
New 478 PIN Processor.

You can use the old CD rom and Hard drive and any other PCI card but You Need the Mentioned Hardware to Upgarde.