At 09:27 AM 6/14/2004 -0500, you wrote: >How do i remove the pentium chip from my computer without damaging it. i >am putting in a new pentium 4 chip and basically upgrading from a pentium >3 to 4 so i have 2 remove the pentium 3 chip and put in the pentium 4 and >i need help You can't upgrade a Pentium 3 to a Pentium 4. The sockets and chipsets are incompatible. To upgrade, you will need to get a new motherboard that supports the Pentium 4. Some things you may be able to move from the old to the new motherboard. 1.) Disk (fixed and removeable) 2.) PCI cards 3.) AGP video cards The following things will need to be changed as they will not support the Pentium 4. 1.) Power supply (different power requirements, and special 4 pin ATX connector). Depending on your computer case, it may not support a new power supply, and may have inadequate cooling. 2.) Memory, your Pentium 3 likely uses SDRAM, and any new motherboards will require DDR RAM. Unless you are familiar with building PC's at this level, or have someone close by who is, I suggest you purchase a whole new system if you want to upgrade. Russ Poffenberger Credence Systems Corp. [log in to unmask] PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml