I was recently asked to swap the CPU of one of my company’s servers with a new desktop machine that they bought. It is a Intel Core 2 DUO 2.8GHz processor, that will be replacing a Celeron 2.7GHz and by looking at the specs of the motherboard on the server machine (GA-945GZM-S2) it is capable of supporting this processor. I also used the new heatsink that came with the Core 2 DUO processor when swapping them.
Now for some reason the pc does not even boot up, the monitor light also does not go green once the pc is switched on. And once I left the machine on for 2minutes, it switched itself off. That tells me it might be a heat problem and that the machine cut itself off as a precaution.
I did not put any new thermal paste on before I attached the heatsink though. Could that be the problem, because currently it is using the paste that was already there.
The problem definitely does not lie with the CPU, because I put it back into its original machine and it still worked fine.
Let me also just add, that there is no activity whatsoever when I switch it on, that means no keyboard functionality, no harddrive activity and I cannot even access the BIOS.
If anybody can help me out with this, possibly give me a few ideas that I can try out, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Sean