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Is My Motherboard or Processor Dorked?
Hello all:
I have an AMD Phenom II 8X420 Processor on an Asus board> 4 Gig Ram. Windows 7 64 Bit.
This thing is starting to act very creepy. About a year ago it ate a RAM chip. A little after that I replaced the power supply.
About nine months ago a hard drive died. Replaced that.
This week another RAM chip got eaten.
I also tested the drives with the Seagate Windows version. One drive showed a problem on one pass. A second drive (the one that was replaced a year ago) showed a problem on another pass. Sometimes I run the drive tests show up good but sometimes not. The DOS version of Seagate didn't show any problems on any drives ever for some unknown reason.
Anyway, I am wondering whether I should junk this whole system. A piece here and a piece there and it really starts to add up.
Gregrocker said that my drive structure was weird and that I should reinstall everything. I was about to do that when I ran all the tests I just described and started wondering whether maybe I should junk the whole system.
So how to know when it is time to put it out of its misery? How do you know when the thing has finally given up the ghost?
Thanks in advance.
Michael