[Cialug] Testing a Processor

jrnosee at gmail.com jrnosee at gmail.com
Tue May 27 08:30:33 CDT 2008


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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