Northwood to Prescott

If your bios needs to be upgrade for the cpu; How can you run the system to
upgrade the bios? Seems like a catch 22 to me??

Jim

"aj" <> wrote in message
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> John wrote:
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>> "aj" <> wrote in message
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>> > Raptor wrote:
>> >
>> > > Have been searching for a Northwood P4C800 3.4 to replace my
>> > > 3.0ghz Northwood which resides on a Asus P4C800 Deluxe mobo.
>> > > There are plenty of Prescott processors at 3.4 available but the
>> > > Northwood part (non EE) seems to have left the planet.. Can I
>> > > use the Prescott on my Asus P4C800 Deluxe? The bios number on
>> > > the board is 1011.007 and it's a version 2.0. Anyone? tia
>> >
>> > I've got the same board and a P4 Pressy 3.2E Bios 1019. Just
>> > Beautiful!!!
>>
>>
>> The antonym for Beautiful is Prescott.
>
> You mean "synonym"