I'm upgrading a PC of my dads, it has a Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 motherboard and the cheapest Celeron processor I could find at the time, it's a long story how that CPU ended up in there but the short version is it was only meant to be temporary!
I bought a used i5 2500k from a well known auction site, I fitted it today but got a BSOD as soon as the Windows logo started to appear (Windows 7 if it makes any difference), I've cleared CMOS, updated the BIOS to the most recent version, removed everything but one stick of RAM (and tried both sticks individually in each slot), but always the same BSOD as soon as the logo starts to appear, even booting from the Windows install DVD it gets to the Windows logo then BSOD.
The BSOD code is 0x00000124, after putting the old Celeron back in everything is fine again, all pins in the socket are fine and the processor has no visible imperfections.
Is the CPU dead? There's two more things I can think of trying, one is using RAM from my PC, the other is try the CPU in my PC (GA-Z77-D3H), the latter I'm not too keen on, everything is working nicely and I'd rather not mess with my BIOS!
I bought a used i5 2500k from a well known auction site, I fitted it today but got a BSOD as soon as the Windows logo started to appear (Windows 7 if it makes any difference), I've cleared CMOS, updated the BIOS to the most recent version, removed everything but one stick of RAM (and tried both sticks individually in each slot), but always the same BSOD as soon as the logo starts to appear, even booting from the Windows install DVD it gets to the Windows logo then BSOD.
The BSOD code is 0x00000124, after putting the old Celeron back in everything is fine again, all pins in the socket are fine and the processor has no visible imperfections.
Is the CPU dead? There's two more things I can think of trying, one is using RAM from my PC, the other is try the CPU in my PC (GA-Z77-D3H), the latter I'm not too keen on, everything is working nicely and I'd rather not mess with my BIOS!