Intel s423 & 2.4Ghz Northwood

[RodneyJM]

Hi,

I am trying to get my new, (yes bought new last year!) Asus P4T board board to boot with a 2.4Ghz D1 step northwood for the first time. Now I know the problem could be with the bios as its probably one of the orginals, I need to flash it to the last one Asus released. However, I do have a 1.5Ghz s423 chip but no s423 HSF. Only HSF I have is for a s478. I also have the adapter for the socket conversion.
My question is there a way to fix the s478 stock Intel HSF onto the s423 board in order to boot with the s423 processor and thus be able to flash the bios?

[JAC]

I havent seen these S478->S423 adaptors close up.. I figured they came with the adaptors to use your existing HSF or the S478 HSF?

anyway.. as for quick and dirty fixes, I have done this before quick testing a batch of cpus.....

Get the board horizontal, apply a little thermal compound, place the heatsink on top and give it a little push. The weight of the heatsink is usually enough to keep it in place for you long enough to flash the bios.

[Guest]

[Guest]

I do the same thing when I am testing processor functionality I wouldnt do it mroe any more than a few minutes, though- You can always put a fan on the top with no HSF retention brackets, though...