About the: Athlon XP 3000+,
That was in the timeframe when AMD was doing several transitions.
When swapping that around, check to see what the core is (Barton, etc) and the FSB.
SOME MBs are particularly selective with what they will work with.

Side note:
Look on the side opposite the die on the CPU. Any bubbles in the "plastic"
are a REAL bad sign.

Rick Glazier

From: "Michael Eisenstadt"
> The computer is/was an Asus A7NA8X-X, cpu Athlon XP 3000+, 512Mb RAM, o.s.
> Win XP SP 1, Gigabyte AGP x8 slot nVidia 7600 series, silent pipe (no fan)
> using a
> 12v connector from the power supply unit. The Gigabyte gpu + Athlon cpu
> which supports a
> fast fps for playing FS2004 was bought in 2006 when the CPU was an Athlon XP
> 2600+.
> Gigabyte repaired it just inside warranty period. It blew its insides
> recently with green artefacts
> flickering on a black screen and, maybe, the motherboard and/or CPU at the
> same moment.
> I tried the Gigabyte cpu in another computer with an AGP 8x slot and  it is
> definitedly bad. But
> with a known good PCI cpu, the mb could not bring up the BIOS  nor beep. The
> mb
> powered up normally. No beep is beep code for . . . I'm way over my payscale
> here so I
> am writing to ask PCBuild subscribers for help.
> 
> The monitor from this system crash was not affected
> 
> TIA
> 
> Mike Eisenstadt
> Austin Texas

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