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How do I install a new motherboard?

How would i install processor and new motherboard into this pc?

  • the new processor and motherboard i want to install is this one http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4497998&Sku=B69-2072 now my current specs are windows xp professional with 4 gig ram 32 bit for a factory spec that is came with check out this website it was my computer when i barely bought it but with windows vista http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01237548&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3577836 what im asking is how can i install it i know a little bit in how to install stuff like memory ram, video cards, but never as big as installing a new processor or a motherboard will installing this stuff erase all my memory or what

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    I was like that before 5 or 6 years ago. I learned how to do that stuff through trial and error :P Anyway here is a video on youtube that will show you how its done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hChFXGwvFo

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You have to have the processor, heat sink, fan, and thermal paste Thermal paste is very important as it ensures heat is always being trasfered from the cpu to the heatsink Put the cpu into the socket lineing up all pings. Make sure not the dameage the pins. DON'T touch the pins. Hold the processor by its sides. Apply a drop of thermal paste to the processor and spread it around with your finger. Put the heat sink on top and hold it there for a minute. Screw in the heat sink while still appling a small amont of preasure. Screw in the fan. Connect the fan's power supply DONE

Installing a new motherboard will require you to reinstall windows, which usually necessitates formatting your hard drive. You're not installing a new motherboard and processor in your computer...you're building a new computer using the same case. Installing a new motherboard simply implies replacing your existing one with a same model (for defect reasons or otherwise). Otherwise, you're building a new computer and everything else that goes along with it. Make sure your memory is compatible as well - if you have the slower RAM (the 533MHz kind) that can be used on the old board, it won't work on the newer one. If you have 667 or 800, it'll work just fine. Make sure you know what you're doing BEFORE you plunk down the cash. You may get in over your head and not have a working computer...

HOLD UP!!!! the current motherboard you have is a Micro-ATX motherboard and the one from tigerdirect is a standard ATX motherboard. Unless your case actually does have space for a standard ATX motherboard, it won't fit, and being a compaq, i really doubt they put a Micro ATX motherboard inside a case that will hold a standard ATX motherboard. Definately want to research that a little more. If you look inside your case, if the current motherboard just barely fits, there is no way you are getting that motherboard you linked to into your case. Micro-ATX is a standard size though, its not proprietary. Tiderdirect and Newegg both sell a large selection of motherboards that size.

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