I, too, have had problems with my last two upgrades
to P3.  While the P2 brackets worked great, the P3
did not work at all.  I even had to bend aside some
little capacitors on the mb to make the cpu case
fit.  (I do not recommend doing this!  I was luck y
that I did not ruin anything.)  Both of my computers
now have their processors just hanging there!  I do
not move them much, so the only thing to work them
loose is vibration.  So far I have had no problems.  One
of the processors is a P3  300, bought when it first
came out, so it is several years old.

Dean Kukral  [log in to unmask]


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Nussbaumer" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 3:24 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Processor retention - important?


> Hi,
>
> I just installed a 500Mhz Pentium 3 Slot 1 into an Abit BH6
> motherboard.  The processor retention mechanism that came with the board
> doesn't hold this processor in place - (i.e it's as if I just installed
the
> processor with no retention mechanism at all).  Although my initial
failure
> at boot up led me to deduce that I'd not inserted the processor
> sufficiently, since then, the computer has worked fine.  Is a retention
> mechanism for slot 1 processors essential?
>
> TIA,
>
> Bill Nussbaumer

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