[Cialug] Testing a Processor

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

Well...that's why I said "if your willing to pay."  I had to pay a test fee
and that was probably 10 years ago... <has it been that long?>.  It's still
cheaper than buying a new processor needlessly.

Otherwise you can find a friend with extra ram to try again on a different
mainboard.  also, make sure you just test with one stick of ram (if you have
multiple), and if it doesn't work with one, try the other.  But you probably
knew that....  I'd offer some ram, but I don't have any spare DDR2.  If by
chance you're using DDR...I may have a 128 stick lying around somewhere.



On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com>
wrote:

> Just be warned, DIT will charge you a bench fee.  They used to do it for
> free (you know, keeping the customers happy).  About 2 and a half years ago
> I had them test a processor.  The guy never told me there would be a fee
> before testing the processor.  When I didn't want to buy a new processor, he
> tried to charge me a fee.  After a bit of arguing, I didn't get charged the
> fee.  I haven't been back since.  Great customer service huh?  If he had
> tested the processor without an issue, I might still be buying stuff from
> them.
>
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:30 AM,  <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> That makes sense.  I may check that out.
>>
>> -todd
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