On Monday 21 December 2009, Rony wrote:
Arun Khan wrote:
On Monday 21 December 2009, Gourav Shah wrote:
- your cpu/motherboard are compatible
An update: I checked with my vendor, he suggested to check the FSB rating of my older Pentium D cpu (socket 775). He thinks it must be rated @ 533 Mhz whereas the board is rated for min. 800Mhz. The same cpu worked with a Gigabyte (G31 chip set) board with a min. 800 FSB spec. which made me think it would work with this board as well.
If it is listed on Intel's website with the correct code for your processor, it should work. What happened at the dealer's place?
It turns out I was *mistaken* about the model number of my Pentium D cpu, which led me to believe the motherboard was DoA -- pilot error :(
I ended up buying a Core 2 Q8400. The board boots fine now, it recognizes the full complement of RAM (6GB RAM) installed in it. The DG45ID/Q8400 combo supports Intel VT-x virtualization, so I can KVM some desktop OSs :).
Thanks to all who pitched in to help.