I don't have any choice..Haven't you ever seen all the really bad drivers on the road, road rage, etc. I am Mr Magoo...(For the oldies), slow, intoxicated, and friendly.
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My MSI K9A2 bit the dust :( :shakes:
The heatsink over the mosfet area was seriously red hot (guess it didn't like 300FSB?) RMA tomorrow.
That means I'm 4 GPU's + SMP client down for around a week :mad:
This had to happen on race day!
I just lost a C2D, not sure what has happened yet, might be the PSU since it is just a pieced together rig out of old parts. The PSU is an old 20 pin with adapter, it has been working fine for a few months, I went to restart it and now it just keeps cycling trying to boot, tried different RAM and no go. Tried another old 20 pin PSU and no go, tried another video card and no go. It may be the MB...
or the cpu... any beeps at all? If not take the cpu out and boot, if it beeps then your cpu is screwed :down:
So far the hardware is holding up fine. After a trouble free day yesterday some machines have gone on an EUE spitting binge. :down: Can't wait for the next core.
Arrrggghhh...I was going for personal best and learned my son took my PC to someone's house...There goes 7.5K ppd...:(
Lol well that's better then mine trying to stick a pen down a fan hole or drop a chain in there ( remember that :rofl: )
I hear all day long, "Do you think my CPU is dead?" My answer is always no. In seven years of fixing god only knows how many thousands of computers, I have only replaced two 939 CPUs, one AM2 CPU, and never had to replace a 775 CPU. CPUs basically don't fail unless your power supply catches on fire, your house gets hit by lightning, or you overvolt the hell out of them, and I have never seen one come DOA.
Tell that to my E6300 ;)
Though I must admit that was abit my own doing.. mobo not supported properly and I just got a ss from Luke here which I wanted to run on my 6800le. What happend I think was that I pushed the gfx into the slot with to much force or something, as when I flipped on the psu, everything died.
Cpu dead, board dead, gpu not dead though ( and boy was I mad, it was the cheapest part of the entire setup ). Upon closer inspection, if I had the board in two hands and just tried to bend it a lil, you could hear the pcb was actually damaged and the must have been some internal traces damaged. The cpu never booted again just as the board. The psu was blown to, think the mobo short circuited.
So, I have killed a s775 cpu, even if it was in a way you wouldn't see in 'normal' life ;)
Honestly, if you aren't overvolting your CPU than I don't think it can die without the PSU taking itself and the motherboard out. Even then, when I see a dead PSU and motherboard I don't even order a CPU unless a new PSU and motherboard don't POST and everything else works in another system. I have most socket spare CPUs but I usually don't break them out to test because the CPUs just always work.
Believe me I treid the cpu in 3 diffrent boards, no post at all. One thing I need to try is to freeze it though, seems to help with dead ram might help the cpu... still got it in a drawer upstairs, might even still be in the dead board since they 'belong' together :rofl:
Just think about it, psu dead and mobo dead, not hard to imagine how many volts that cpu might have gotten when the rest blew.
Well.... my 9600BE wasn't DOA but might as well have been. Was all screwed up from day one. Replacement is perfect though. That was my first CPU that ever had any issues from the factory, and the only CPU that got fried was when a surge blew up my old pentium 133MHz. Ever seen a game suddenly stop spitting graphics at you and start spitting all the hexadecimal coding at you on the screen instead? :rofl:
That's AMD forya :rofl::ROTF::rofl: :p:
I've had two bad CPUs out of all that I owned - 1 intel, 1 AMD. I've had far more AMD chips than intel chips, so for me, the percentage of bad intel chips per number of intel chips owned is much higher than the percentage of bad AMD chips per number of AMD chips owned ;) :p:
Maybe the dry desert heat keeps our CPUs nice and operational. :up:
I have never had a bad CPU and I never see them with the newer generation sockets.
I'm pushing buttons. :poke:
for my desktops I was an AMD man all through the k5, k6 days and x2 days.. I didn't switch to intel until my Q6600 bonanza last year (starting Oct 07)....
laptops though I just buy whatever is a good deal and on sale...
Hey you don't all have to go quiet :poke:
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Never had a bad chip. I ran my q6600 @ 1.55v on water for about 1 year before i updated my bios and then 3.78 ghz wasn't a go anymore, so Its "underclocked' to 3.6ghz. What do you need to kill these quads, 1.6v+ 24/7? lol