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Happy to report that it does work, PC now fully working again!! Thanks for all your help :D

Trying to boot from a Windows recovery USB and disabling power saving features did not make any change, still freezing when trying to boot Windows. Will try the updated BIOS tomorrow night, if it kills the board then I’m sure I can pick another one up fairly cheaply as they aren’t exactly...

Yeah I saw about it on delidded when looking for cheap upgrade options. The details are here https://www.delidded.com/lga-771-to-775-adapter/ If it works then I will definitely recommend it, however, not so pleased with the results so far :(

Thanks for all the replies. The BIOS is the latest version for that motherboard and I’ve read a bit around updating the microcode, but it went a bit over my head. I will see if I can change from IDE to AHCI and see if that is the issue. As the PC won’t boot I’m going to have a harder time...

Hi all, Hopefully you can help me with some issues i'm having. I wanted to upgrade my CPU to something a bit more powerful but was tight on budget, so found out that I could fit an Intel Xeon to replace my old Core 2 Duo. I bought a CPU that has been pre-modified so I didn't have to try fit...