Powerleap PL/P4N - Tech Support Forums

EOD · April 20th, 2003, 04:46 AM

I bought a PL/P4N adapter that allows you to use any 400 FSB pentium 4, 478 pin processor on an older pentium 4, 423 pin board. I installed it into my friend's Intel D850GB motherboard with a pentium 4 2.0A computer. I got nothing but a black screen! I am sending it back and requesting a new one, is it a waste of my time or has enyone had luck with the PL/P4N? The D850GB board is listed on the powerleap site as being compatible!
Thanks

BFlurie · April 20th, 2003, 10:44 AM

Those things are flaky -- they'll work perfectly on some boards or completely fail on others. If it won't post, there's little else you can do.

My old one had a fail-safe jumper (last in row) that was purposely not mentioned, but when disabled let it post on a mobo it otherwise wouldn't. But that's taking a BIG risk.....

sweendog · February 19th, 2006, 01:14 PM

HEY, I ALSO BOUGHT A PL-P4N FOR MY HP. USING THERE SOFTWARE IT RECOMMENDED THE PL-P4P 3.2GHZ FOE THE 478 PIN SOCKET. I ALSO GET A BLANK SCREEN. 18 DAYS AGO I LEFT A QUESTION ON THEIR WEBSITE AND I HAVE NOT HEARD A THING. THEIR LIVE HELP IS NEVER AVAILABLE SO I CALLED GOT A VOICEMAIL LEFT MY NAME AND NUMBER AND THEY STILL HAVE NOT CALLED. I ALSO WENT TO THE HP WEBSITEAND UPDATED MY BIOS BUT NO HELP. SWEENDOG.

RamonGTP · February 19th, 2006, 11:55 PM

Those adapters are really pointless... They don't always work, when they do work they're not always stable, when they are stable you will not get nearly the performance you would other wise. The best option would be to find a CPU on ebay that will work with that board, or buy a new board for the s478 CPU you have.

DanU · February 20th, 2006, 05:25 AM

Welcome to Techimo.

Have you tried clearing your CMOS? It's always a good idea when changing CPUs.

Like Ramon said, trying to use an adapter to upgrade to a CPU the motherboard was never designed to support is a crapshoot. That's just the nature of these things.