Pentium E6700 compatibility with Asus P5L-MX mobo?

[EJ]

On the way to upgrade my Asus P5L-MX mobo I bought a sh Intel Pentium E6700, the one with 3.2 Ghz, 2 MB L2.

I could not find the Dual Core 2 E6700, 2.66 Ghz, 4 MB L2, the one Asus reccomends.I took the risk to buy the first one as I found on Game Debate that the P E6700 might work also..I managed to boot the system with the P E6700, but the BIOS does not recognise it correctly..

I fixed manually the CPU frecq, FSB and DDR2.. to the best I could..

At the beginning I received at each boot "CPU ucode incorrect. Press F1 to resume" ... bothering honestly..

Now, from BIOS, I managed to get rid of the "Press F1 to resume" command, so I remained only with the POST message "CPU ucode error", which is not so bothering...

Manually fixing the CPU, FSB and RAM frequency I managed to stabilise the system at a performance 4 times better than the one of my previous P4 3 GHz processor.. So the risk I took worth it, as we talk small money.. sh parts..

There is still an issue which I didn't solve and I need help...

The Shut Down command does not close the Win XP completely.. The system blocks after "Saving current settings".. I have to close it from the Power button..

Any ideas?

Thank you

[Allan_J_Intel1]

Thanks for joining the Processor community.

This is the list of compatible processors for your motherboard model Asus P5L-MX

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/list.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=P5L-MX&p=1 ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- CPU Support P5L-MX

I recommend checking with Asus for possible BIOS and compatibility issues.

http://www.asus.com/support/ ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support-

Allan.