E5200 on a E5400 only compatible MOBO

[Ary]

Hello!, I have this s*tty mobo https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=401#cpusupport , and in the support page it says it only supports the E5400 of the E5XXX series, I managed to boot, install windows and even use it, also game without BSOD on a E5200(according to intel webpage is the same CPU but lower GHz), but recently its not booting Windows, I formated the HDD and the same happens, boots till the user loading and then BSOD then reboot and says 'No boot disk detected or the disk has failed', I tested the HDD on my main pc and its running excellent, maybe the MOBO is fucked up because of incompatible CPU?, thanks.

[kelvinhall05]

What BSOD code are you getting?

[Bitter]

I doubt it's a CPU compatibility issue, however with that weird chipset who knows. Check your hard drive data cable or swap it for a different one. Check RAM settings, voltage/speed/timings to make sure those are correct. What FSB speed are you running? If you want to double check then grab an E7600 on ebay, they're $5-7 shipped here in the USA. I can't imagine them being that much more expensive in Argentina, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

[Ary]

39 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

What BSOD code are you getting?

Sorry but I cannot tell because it doenst boot anymore, it stays in "fixing windows" and it doenst fix s*it!

[Ary]

32 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I doubt it's a CPU compatibility issue, however with that weird chipset who knows. Check your hard drive data cable or swap it for a different one. Check RAM settings, voltage/speed/timings to make sure those are correct. What FSB speed are you running? If you want to double check then grab an E7600 on ebay, they're $5-7 shipped here in the USA. I can't imagine them being that much more expensive in Argentina, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

Oh thanks that gives me a relief, yes i read that the VIA chipset is bad, ill check the SATA cable, im running all the confing in bios default, in the motherboard page says the E5700 is a Core 2 Duo E5700 but on the market they are al Pentium Dual Core E5700 LOL??

[Bitter]

23 minutes ago, Ary said:

Oh thanks that gives me a relief, yes i read that the VIA chipset is bad, ill check the SATA cable, im running all the confing in bios default, in the motherboard page says the E5700 is a Core 2 Duo E5700 but on the market they are al Pentium Dual Core E5700 LOL??

Poor documentation is nothing new. Is your BIOS updated to current? Sometimes that has a lot to do with CPU compatibility, I've been down that road before. Usually though, if one CPU in a 'family' works then the rest do as well.

[Ary]

14 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Poor documentation is nothing new. Is your BIOS updated to current? Sometimes that has a lot to do with CPU compatibility, I've been down that road before. Usually though, if one CPU in a 'family' works then the rest do as well.

To be honest the page is so messy that I dont know where to download the correct BIOS update, and yes, I thought the same, I dont think every E5XXX is different not to mention the core2 are also very similar excluding cache and executions, also the E5400 is newer than the E5200!