OK I have an old dell 2300. I played world of warcraft on it all the time. My fiancée pulled the cpu out and bent the pins. Well that wasn't the problem. I was wanting to upgrade cpu's anyway. Well it had a celeron in it. So I bought me a pentium 4 478 socket for it. But when I install it all I get is beeps.

Are you not supposed to change from celeron to pentium 4 or is there something else I need to do. Because if they don't work that way I want to get my money back and get one that will work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Look at phot below and make sure you have pin 1 in the proper position according to the photo
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...0/replac19.jpg

Here is the one that was shipped with your PC

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Intel Pentium 4 that runs at 1.80 GHz internally and 400 MHz externally or
Intel Celeron that runs at 1.70 GHz internally and 400 MHz externally

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So you would have to go with one of the above - there is no free support through Dell

If you still have your owners manuals, see if there is a section about upgrading processor