Hey Guys,

I have a Dell PowerEdge 840, that I've got from a friend. It currently has a Pentium D (2.80GHz) processor, running on A02 BIOS. I have a spare Dual Core E8500 CPU that I want to use in this server. I have tried to do a direct swap and the server doesn't post after the swap, nor does it give out an error with beeps or lights, except that both the HDD and CPU led's were lit constantly.

So my question is then, Is this processor not compatible with the server? Anyone have any experience with it?

Thanks for the help in advanced.