I have an Acer Aspire M5100 with a Acer F690GVM motherboard, my processor broke and I have a new one, an AMD Athlon II X2 250 which is Socket AM3 and the computer has an AM2 socket but the AMD processors should be compatible with Sockets down to AM2, but when trying with it, nothing happens... The fans just turn on but the computer doesn't start or anything, is there a way to fix that? It's a brand new processor so I'm pretty sure it's not broken...

am3+ socket is what the socket is listed on the motherboard, so if you have a CPU that fits only AM3+, the CPU wont fit it unless directed by the CPU manufacture seeing that AM3+ is for AMD processors only if you have a older AM3 CPU it might fit the AM3+ motherboard if listed, this paticular model only lists AM3 and fits Sempron, Phenom II X3, Athlon II X2, Phenom II X2, Athlon II X4, Athlon II X3, Phenom II X4, Phenom II X6

You have to now your motherboard.whithout that it is impossible to say.

your model 1630 is listed as with AMD Phenom ii processor and DDR3 memory on asus web site. if thats true (you typed its Athlon?) then it should be AM3 socket.

hello there,

• Socket A CPU support Type,
• models Athlon, Duron, Athlon XP

• The AMD Athlon II X2 is a Socket AM3, sorry to tell you that this motherboard and CPU will not work together correctly. New motherboards are always fun
  

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well i think u'll be needing a phenom processors.. me i have a am2 socketed motherboard and im currently running a phenomx3 processor. actualy i should be having an x4, its just i run out of stocks when i bought a processor hehe so, no choice i need a processor, so i bought an x3.. i hope this would helped. phenom x4 processors will work on sockets where phenomx3 also operates.

The problem with Store bought PCs is that there is no way to tell how fast a proccessor you can safely put into one before it becomes overclocking, but in theory your exact motherboard should support an AMD Athlon X2 5800+ 1000 Mhz FSB. Now if your willing to take a risk, you could buy a 6400+ but be warned, the computer may not recognize it, or it may just underclock the proccessor, if the processor supports 800 Mhz FSB. I said the 1000 Mhz FSB because it can underclock to that speed, and also because they no longer offer 800 Mhz flavors at the sites i order from. Hope that helps.

check compatabilty check online for your board chipset on the www.acer.com/support will find the solution for the upgrade cpu compatabilty, gudday !!

All manuals and drivers for your M5100 here:

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/desktop/aspire_m5100.html

Best wishes.

you have to look up the model number off the board and see what chipset you have and so forth and so on. Without the model number off the board there is no real way to tell