Dimension 4400 and 4550 and their Intel counterparts

Hi all,

thanks to everyone, especially to Ben for his detailed instructions.

Well, the board arrived today. I removed my 4400 board and installed processor and RAM in the 4550 board. Except for that only one of the two front panel connectors did fit (there was no connector on the board for the 2nd one) I had no problems.

I removed the "BIOS recovery" jumper according to what is printed on the board and tried to flash the BIOS with Dell's BIOS boot floppy.

I started, lighted a cigarette and waited... nothing happened. I tried removing the VGA card and the RAM, it was still the same. According to the tech docs, the 4550 should accept my P4-1700 and my DDR266 RAM from my 4400, right?

Unfortunately it did not work, it even did not try to access the floppy in any way. I guess the board is "more dead" than I expected. Even the diag LEDs on the back stayed off when I powered on the board. :-(

BTW, I had no idea that P4 CPUs are *so* tiny!

Olaf

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		Dimension 4400 and 4550 and their Intel counterparts Hi all, thanks to everyone, especially to Ben for his detailed instructions. Well, the board arrived today. I removed my 4400 board and installed processor and RAM in the 4550 board. Except for that only one of the two front panel connectors did fit (there was no connector on the board for the 2nd one) I had no problems. I removed the "BIOS recovery" jumper according to what is printed on the board and tried to flash the BIOS with Dell's BIOS boot floppy. I started, lighted a cigarette and waited... nothing happened. I tried removing the VGA card and the RAM, it was still the same. According to the tech docs, the 4550 should accept my P4-1700 and my DDR266 RAM from my 4400, right? Unfortunately it did not work, it even did not try to access the floppy in any way. I guess the board is "more dead" than I expected. Even the diag LEDs on the back stayed off when I powered on the board. :-( BTW, I had no idea that P4 CPUs are so tiny! Olaf I'm back again..with more troubles Hello, I installed a new benQ DVD Writer, DW 1620 in my DELl DIM. 2400. Using Dell's 'Cyberlink DVD Player', a... List \| Previous \| Next



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