Vash72

Hi my names Dave and I went a little out of my comfort zone with this one. You see I decided to update my pc as it began to struggle with the newer apps/games and so I bought a newer psu, graphics card, cpu, fan and ram. I am a novice to installing pc equipment having only re-placed ram, power supplies and graphics cards before.

The psu and ram were no problem, the graphics card requires a floppy drive splitter cable (which I'm waiting on receiving) as the newer power supply doesn’t have two of the required cables, but once I receive it should be easy enough to install. The problem is with the new cpu and possibly the fan (I don't know enough to be certain this can't cause problems).

The old cpu was a Northwood 1.80 pentium 4 / with stock intel fan
& I tried to replace this with a
Northwood 2.66 pentium 4 / with octopus 478 cooler (up to 3ghz)

I updated the bios of my Gigabyte GA-8IGML-T (version 2) and then managed to replace the cpu and fan, (making sure to avoid electro-static contact by touching the grounded psu every so often). According to the bios, the pc recognised the new cpu but as soon as windows xp began to start it would freeze up.

After restarting a number of times and freezing in the same place I gave up and reinstalled my old hardware again (works fine). The Northwood 2.66 is the highest cpu my motherboard (should) support and I'm wondering if that could be the culprit? (http://www.gigabyte.lv/products/mb/c...a-8igml-t.html) or if my windows xp is freezing because it dislikes the new cpu and fan which don't match with the pre-existing configuration.

Please advise me as to what I should try next,

Dave