Hey everyone;

I'm running XP SP3 on an older system. I had an E2200 CPU in an MSI
motherboard (P35 Neo2). Last night I dropped a new CPU in--an E8500.
Now the system will pass POST fine and the BIOS recognises the new CPU,
but Windows won't boot. It gets to the logo screen, then flashes a BSOD
and reboots.

I've gone into the advanced startup options and said "don't reboot on
failure" (or whatever the wording is), which allowed me to capture the
Stop code: 0x8e.

I ran Windows Memory test overnight and after 145 passes, it found no
errors so I think I'm safe there.

Also, I can't boot into safe mode. It does the same thing.

Ideas? Is it actually a bad CPU or Windows just being annoying?

Thanks,
Colin

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