Is my E6300 dead?

[ScoobyDoo]

Ive had a e6300 for a while now, only been able to overclock it slightly from day one (fsb at 290) but i put that down to my motherboard and memory.

2 days ago Ive just brought a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard, geil Pc6400 ultra 2gb memory, new sata harddrive.
I installed vista fine first time and ran the processor at stock.
Tried overclocking it by upping the fsb very slightly but the motherboard kept on reseting itself on startup and defaulting back to stock.

Tonight vista crashed on startup.
Machine booted but vista wouldnt load, tried safe mode and that failed too.

So.
I tried a fresh install.
It kept on crashing after 'loading windows files', I either got a lockup or blank screen, and on the 3rd occassion blue screen of death.

I then underclocked the processor by selecting x6 multiplyer instead of x7.
Vista is currently installing fine.

Do you think the processor is dead/dying? and its not another component ie, motherboard etc?.b

 

[ergonomics]

when i had similar issues, i would put it down to maybe the mother board being borked. but then again, if the mobo is new....and you had these issues before, it could be the cpu.

but if the cpu is broken, i assumed it just wouldnt power

sorry looking back i dnt think ive actually assisted you at all

 

[Servo]

I would mem test the memory. set the memory volts to +.2

 

[Mattus]

Unlikely to be mem if changing the multi sorts it.

Once Vista's installed I'd check system voltages (NB, particularly CPU.)