[Cialug] Testing a Processor

[Matthew Nuzum]

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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