GX 740 upgrade to PHENOM 9600b

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Did you update the BIOS before installing the processor?

A Solid Amber power button LED, indicates:

Quote, 'The Dell Diagnostics is running a test, or a device on the system board may be faulty or incorrectly installed'

Have you checked the four Diagnostic lights on the front panel?

The Optiplex 740 Troubleshooter and Diagnostic Guide, is HERE 

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Bev.

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Try reinstalling the *old* processor that you replaced and see if the Optiplex 740 boots up correctly.

Bev.

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Sorry, but it looks like the AMD Phenom X4 9600 processor is not compatible with the Optiplex 740.

Bev.

I have turned the desktop on and I cannot accurately identify which numbers are illuminated. 

If i were to guess I would say that none of them are illuminated. as there is some residual light  from the power and networking lights.

but other than that i have no clue.

the fan is running the light on the mobo is normal the wireless card lights are working normally the ethernet connector lights are fine.

im lost :(  and i was so excited to have a quad core doubble :((

initally while it started booting the light on the front was yellow then the machine made a beep sound then changed to green and booted normally.

This happened in less than a second

others have used the same processor in this computer and stated that it worked.

THere are 4 phenoms that are proven to work on the 740.    so how do we solve this problem?

is it a power issue? that is what Ive been reading. 

so why would installing this processor cause a power issue?

would I have to reset the power avaiable to the processor?  do i need a more beefy supply?

I believe there is a solution to this problem.      lets find it :)

thank you,

Jason

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Jason.

Upgrading the power supply will not help.

Try posting this issue in the AMD forum HERE

Bev.

AMD seems to think that the 65 watts supplied to the cpu is the problem.

how do we increase this?

what is really perplexing to me is that the computer registers no problems.

No error codes no lights NOTHING.

so what does the orange light actually mean?

AMD seems to think that the 65 watts supplied to the cpu is the problem. how do we increase this?

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As far as I know the power to the CPU cannot be adjusted on a Dell motherboard, as it requires a different BIOS code to set the CPU voltages.

Bev.

what is really perplexing to me is that the computer registers no problems. No error codes no lights NOTHING.  so what does the orange light actually mean?

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Already answered in my earlier post  HERE

A Solid Amber power button LED, indicates:

Quote, 'The Dell Diagnostics is running a test, or a device on the system board may be faulty or incorrectly installed'

Bev.

BEV first let me thank you for all that you have done. I appreciate it.

Second I think that I have found the problem with this cpu swap. I do no have the enhanced version of the mobo so I dint think this swap will work.

But the perplexing think is that even though the bios screen does not say i have an enhanced version, the serial and model number of the board say that i do?

:(

I really want this to work

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Sorry to hear that, but if you correct, it could be the answer.

Bev.

Hi:

I have an Optiplex 740, i have 2 question:

1st: Whats the diferent between Dell Optiplex 740 and Dell Optiplex GX 740.

2nd: I want to upgrate to quad core processor, wich processor i can put it on my dell optiplex 740?

Thanks,