I7 upgrade

[Mmetzgier]

So I have two hp 6300 pro PC's both are the microtowers, I bought one with an i5 3470 the other with an i3 2120 both had 4g of ram. The i5 motherboard went so I decided to just upgrade the i3 to the i7 3770 and install 16g of ram. I installed the ram first to make sure it worked and no issues with the i3 so in with the i7. Hit power and I get 5 beeps and no boot just a black screen, I located the first two ram ports and only left them loaded and it booted fine so I tried again with all 4 loaded and same results as at first. I swapped out all ram to 2g sticks and would only boot with first two ports loaded. So I swapped out the processor to the i3 and everything's good again so I swapped to the i5 I had laying around and it's good everything works I put the i7 back in and I am back at square one. Could it be my i7 processor is bad? It shows up correctly in the BIOS and windows system.

[Noah0302]

Test the i7 in another motherboard if you can.

 

But as the others said; your prebuilt mainboard is most likely the problem, maybe even the PSU

[Mmetzgier]

The board is compatible with the chip. I made sure before I bought it that I was staying within a the boards limits. 

[Mmetzgier]

[Mmetzgier]

Alrighty problem solved. I used a pencil eraser and gently cleaned the contacts on the chip since this issue reminded me of a bent pin issue. I can't believe I didn't try that sooner.