Does a CPU ever give forewarning of dying? Might be longish
- From: "Jonathan" <itsmerockyesaelpmapson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:24:29 +0100
I thought they either worked or didn't.
CPU in Q is a P4 3.4ghz with ht. Bought this system secondhand a couple of
years back.
Brief spec. CPU as above with coolermaster hsf, Asus P4c800 board, 550w psu
(Antec IIRC), 1gb (2x512kb) Corsair pro ram, nvidia gfx card (don't remember
which but fairly high spec for 2005), 2x 160gb Seagate sata hdd.
Not OC'd by me but maybe by previous owner. Worked well until late 06 and
then died. Stone dead. Shame, it had been a fast reliable machine.
After much googling I came across a known problem with this Asus board and
RMA'd it. On return and after rebuild it worked fine for a while then
started hanging to the current screen, not bsod. I retired the machine
pending a rebuild suspecting the mainboard faulty. At this stage the machine
would boot up fine and run for several hours or days and then hang as
before.
Last few nights I have tried to get it working again.
Ran memtest for 24 hours and that shows all good. Tried memtest on each ram
individually just to be on the safe side.
Stripped the machine and rebuilt loose on the bench.
New Asrock mainboard, same cpu, known good Hiper 580w psu, same ram, new 1x
160gb seagate hdd, new gfx card. Install WinXPpro (very very slow) Boots
fine but hangs after several hours or days. Just as before.
This is the thing that mystifies me:
if I go into Windows Task Manager I am shown 2x cpu's clunking away quite
merrily. If I add 'show kernel times' from the 'view' menu it only shows
kernel times for 1 cpu.
I'm no expert but does this mean that 1 kernel (whatever that might be) is
dying or has died?
Would appreciate some advice
Thanks
JJ
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