If you're willing to pay, you could probably take it in to DIT or some place similar closer to you, and ask them to test it. They usually keep spare motherboards/ram in back for diagnosing problems. They checked a CPU for me years ago. Sure enough...it was fried.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Matthew Nuzum <<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Todd Walton <<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have a Pentium 4 3.0GHz LGA 775 processor that I suspect is bad.<br>
> How can I find out if it is? I tried it on two motherboards and I get<br>
> the same bad results. But I had the same memory and case at the time.<br>
> So I don't actually *know* that it's bad, and processors are not<br>
> cheap.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Well, I have had two instances where there was something wrong with<br>
the case that caused the motherboard/computer to be unreliable.<br>
Possibly not enough clearance or some other mysterious problem and<br>
simply replacing the case resolved it. That was quite rare though. (I<br>
used to work for a white-box computer builder and we turned out scads<br>
of PCs so 2 out of countless builds is quite a low %)<br>
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