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If you have a spare motherboard or friend that has one that uses the same type of CPU, then you might test it on it to see if it works properly.
If you have a spare motherboard or friend that has one that uses the same type of CPU, then you might test it on it to see if it works properly.
Good idea.....all I have are intel boards. I guess that's about all I have left.
The funny thing is my video card died just the other day. I just got it back and installed it. This is wgen I discovered this problem. I wonder if a power surge (or something) took out the card and CPU at the same time........
It's possible a surge can kill or damage like this. If you have overclocked it any, then that can shorten the life span as well. Might be worth a small investment in a good surge protector with line filtering built into it if you get a lot of power surges. For example, a UPS backup battery with those options.
Check your BIOS. Some (but not all) BIOSes have a setting which can disable all but one core of a multi-core CPU for debugging and testing purposes.
I have an older home Brink. I have surge protectors (good ones) that show if the outlet is grounded. Mine are NOT. I have never had any problem in 20 years with any electronics of any kind in this house.
It is a very good idea to look into a good UPS with the options you mentioned. I just can't believe the CPU of all things went out. Hopefully someone has seen this before and has an idea we haven't thought of.
Thanks Dwarf, it's an HP BIOS and has no such option. I searched every work of it just now. I am pretty familiar with the BIOS in my machines. It does show the correct CPU and L2 cache 512 X 3 (which is right).....that is not showing in any Windows apps. That may be from an ID on the chip though......what do you think?
I think I may be paying for buying a $350 refurbished system.......
sorry but that is nonsense.
Been running AMD for 10 years and never failed me.
On the other hand, the triple core is known to be a piece a garbage.
Intel had it's share of garbage CPU's also in the past, with failing floating point units, overheating problems etc.
I think both manufacturers have their ups and downs.
But I think in this case there could have been a heat issue.
Now the two cores have died, the heat issue is gone because the one core won't produce that much heat.
Could be the quality of the triple core, but we don't know. Might as well have been not enough airflow in the case, or failing CPU cooler.
That is all true...I knew this CPU was a discontinued piece of crap when I purchased it. I just needed a faster system to last 6 months, I got about a year out of it. It still has the stock heatsink and fan and runs at 36C. I can still run Prime95 and heat it up. (I tried it fo a few minutes) and it still works. Just slowly.....
MrGRiM, I have Vista Ultimate on the SAME machine and it's the same if I start Vista...That leads me to believe it's not worth trying a new OS. Am I correct????
Also, for that reason, I have not tried the driver fix. If it's the same in Vista I see no point.