computer components & hardware

Peter wrote:
Can any one help me out.

I have a Gigabyte motherboard serial number

GA-945GZM-S2 Rev 3.0

and a Gigabyte

GA-M61PME-S2 Rev 2.0

Is it possible to remove the cpu from the GA-945GZM-S2 and place it into
the GA-M61PME-S2 ???

If not, why and what must i do to use it ??

Many thanx to all

Peter
Queensland, Australia

One motherboard takes AMD AM2 processors and the other
takes Intel LGA775. At the CPU socket level, they
share *nothing* in common. You can't swap processors.

Please explain what you're trying to achieve, with
some details, for the best advice. Give some background
details, so we don't have to guess :-)

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The cheapest AMD processor I can find right now (with
no heatsink and fan), is around $25. So a cheap AMD
processor can be purchased *brand new* for very little.
The purpose of such a CPU, would be as an enabler to getting
the BIOS chip flash upgraded, so you could use a more expensive
processor. You would borrow the heatsink and fan from the
more expensive processor, to cool the $25 processor while
completing the BIOS flash.

To see what will work in your GA-M61PME-S2, you use the CPU support
chart. It contains BIOS revision information, as well as the
names of the processors.

http://www.gigabyte.com/support-down....aspx?pid=2755

The BIOS chip on the motherboard, is an eight pin serial flash chip,
near the faceplate end of the PCI Express x16 video card slot. I don't
know exactly, how you're supposed to tell what BIOS release is in there.
On larger (32-PLCC) flash chips, sometimes the manufacturer affixes a paper
label, making visual verification of release number easy. But that
chip is too small for paper labels, and the manufacturing process
(the chip is soldered to the motherboard), makes it unlikely that
a label would be part of the process. It would gum up the soldering
equipment. And affixing the label afterwards, would take effort, and
no motherboard manufacturer spends a penny more for labor than is
absolutely necessary.

http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/p...2/2755/887.jpg

Paul