runawayprisoner wrote

"...But that part was only to scare you. What I think happened is that you got one of those burn-in periods where your processor simply requires more voltage to run stable at a certain clock speed. And It seems 2.02v is too low for 1140MHz RAM. You could have decreased RAM speed or increased vCore and see if that made a difference. And sometimes, something else can go very wrong... like... mostly your northbridge! Believe me or not, the northbridge can cause all sorts of transparent issues when it's not tended to. Too low NB volt can cause random lock-ups anywhere, even if the processor is over-volted and rock-stable. If the chip truly died, it would not even boot. Since it boots, and it seems you are only getting artifacts and lock-ups, so I guess the culprit is the NB. And I think... that's very likely. Lookit how many things you are running through the NB? Your video card? Your RAM sticks? Your CPU? Your HDD? Gahh...

If it's lock-ups and not BSOD's or errors, look for the NB. It's the culprit."




My response,


Ok you bring up a good point. It makes more sense then my cpu dieing. I will add this though, I had it at stock with the motherboard giving it 1.17v~ at the default 2.66Ghz setting of the chip when all this happened. I know that doesn't mean that isn't what is happening though. I have had no one mention this possibility to me and I appreciate it. I will try tomorrow to put the chip back onto my old GA-P35-DQ6 here and see if I can get it to act right on hers because I would rather try everything possible before throwing away my $300. I will post my findings sometime tomorrow. I tried to post this earlier but the database went down for the forums so.. I watched the departed for the first time. Good movie, Thanks again.