I just bought a Quad Core Processor to replace my Dual core. I just got my package and I put it in to test it and then was going to take it out cause I don't have any usable Thermal Paste right now. But when I turn it on it give me a steady orange power button light. So I put in my old CPU powers on correctly. I even took out all but 2 GB of ram thinking I might have gotten a 32-Bit processor.
Here's my specs
Dell Dimension E521 8 GB RAM Socket Type AM2 CPU: AMD Athlon x64 Dual Core 1.9 GHz
New CPU Socket Type AM2 New CPU: AMD Opteron Quad Core 2.1 GHZ
I made sure no pins were bent
Problem: OLOD With New Processor, computer does not boot into bios or windows.
Question: How to fix the problem.
