[Cialug] Testing a Processor

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

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.

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a Pentium 4 3.0GHz LGA 775 processor that I suspect is bad.
> > How can I find out if it is?  I tried it on two motherboards and I get
> > the same bad results.  But I had the same memory and case at the time.
> >  So I don't actually *know* that it's bad, and processors are not
> > cheap.
> >
>
> Well, I have had two instances where there was something wrong with
> the case that caused the motherboard/computer to be unreliable.
> Possibly not enough clearance or some other mysterious problem and
> simply replacing the case resolved it. That was quite rare though. (I
> used to work for a white-box computer builder and we turned out scads
> of PCs so 2 out of countless builds is quite a low %)
>
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> Matthew Nuzum
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