Just check as many times as you can reseating that processor & the heatsink is properly installyed. If it still doesn't work, triple check that your motherboard supports up through an XP 1800+. If that's all fine, and the 1700+ works but the 1800+ doesn't, now start considering that the cpu may be defective.
There's really no reason why you can't just pop in the new cpu other than those few things above.
I am guessing but is the XP1.7+ a Palomino core (larger squarer die) and the XP1.8+ a thoroughbred (smaller and more rectangular)
It might be, and i will check later, that your motherboard supports Palomino core only (up to XP2.1+)
Martin
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