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Anyone bought a new CPU and it was DOA?

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

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Oh gosh,

I thought I was a Jedi of trouble-shooting but I got stung last night while crafting some new builds. Got the old 'Fans Spin up but no boot scenario' and must have spent four hours swapping things about and fiddling (keeping cool of course). The system had been running for a week with another CPU so I was fairly sure that everything else was ok and in the end I swapped out the X2 3800+ for an Opty 146 and the problem was gone?

I then swapped back to the suspect x2 and it wouldn't boot again. I then swapped out the suspect X2 for another X2 3800+ and it worked fine?

Seems this CPU is DOA? anyone else had this happen to them before?
 
Never had a DOA CPU. As above, I expect the board doesn't support X2 CPUs or needs an update first. Sometimes it may work an unknown CPU but won't give the correct speed or name but if it is a new type, i.e dual core, it won't switch on.
 
Np, If a post is any longer than a few sentences some people switch off, if a post is too short some people ask for more info, lol its hard to find the balance! :)

Duke said:
Never had a DOA CPU
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Me neither, feel sorry for Mr Bedroom-Builder who has just the bare amount of kit and doesn't have a spare of everything to swap out!
 
Big.Wayne said:
Me neither, feel sorry for Mr Bedroom-Builder who has just the bare amount of kit and doesn't have a spare of everything to swap out!
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Yeah it can be a nightmare. Luckily we have a lot of kit at work. DOAs seem to come and go.. a few months ago we had problems with motherboards then hard disks then everything was fine until some dodgy cheap DDR2 wormed its way in (worked in every other system but wouldn't show up memtest errors - just caused the system to lockup/restart), things have been much better since though. CPUs and generally graphics card have all been good.
 
Np :)

Looks like not a lot of peeps have had a borked CPU before then? Just goes to show when it comes to the trouble-shooting process you can't take anything for granted. . .
 
Indeed very rare. More than often, on AMD K8's if anything fails it always seems to be the memory controller that poop's out first. Possibly a dead onboard memory controller? Guess at the end of the day that makes it DOA.

Mul
 
Yup!

Well taught me a lesson anyway and I got to experiment with various methods of applying the thermal paste (must have taken the HSF off about 8-10 times)

That small rice/pea blob of goo does work better than I imagined, the pressure from the heatsink spreads it out like a bit of dough under a bakers roller! :D

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