Re: Symptoms of a bad CPU?

CPUs almost never fail. Generally, either they work or they don't. I've been working with computers since 1967, and microcomputers since 1975, and I don't think I've ever seen a CPU chip that was not either good or totally dead. Generally, if it posts and passes the diagnostics contained within the POST tests, it's good. If the system is flakey, look to the power supply, memory and motherboard, and to the cooling systems.


snowblow me wrote: 
How can you tell if your cpu is going on the blink? I have a refurb.
thinkpad T30, pentium 4m 1.8   I keep getting screen freeze up, I've
done the disk clean up and have run all the virus/spyware scans plus ran
pc doctor tests of the hd, cpu, memory etc.. it passed all the tests.
It's also showing alerts down in the icon tray that security is turned
off when it's not, and a couple other programs are off or not logged on
when they Are.  There is something going on but I'm not sure if it's the
computer, or windows xp.. or less likely msn (my isp). This started
recently btw, any ideas?    Thank you,

Y.D.

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