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    Faulty CPU - Please Help

    Hi all,

    I have recently 'upgraded' my CPU from an Athlon X64 3800 to a Athlon X64 6000. Since then I have been plagued by incessant BDOD's - The STOP codes change every time. I have ruled out memory (I have run multiple passes with Memscope and tried different memory with no change), clean installs of Windows (32 and 64 bit variants of Win 7), removed all cards with no change in behaviour also the HDD is fine (though I don't know how much more of this it will take). I am at my wits end.

    What I am asking is, what are the symptoms of a faulty CPU? Or could anyone shed any light on this issue? I've had 5 BSOD's by the time I have written this.

    System specs:

    Win 7 Ultimate (32 bit)
    AMD Athlon X64 6000
    2Gb RAM
    ASUS M2N-X Board (Bios is up to date)
    nVidia 8800GT Alphadog 1Gb Gfx card
    Creative Audigy Soundcard (removed)
    Generic 1Gb LAN card (removed)

    Please help!

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    Kras.

    PS 8 BSOD's in one post...


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    Re: Faulty CPU - Please Help

    I guess the only way to know for sure if the CPU is fualty would be to try it in a different machine to see if it causes problems there too. If you bought it from a shop or somewhere else that allows returns, i would be considering sending it back. I assume the system was fine before you swapped the CPU?

    Might be worth considering the PSU, is it capable of running the system and are you sure the CPU power lead is connected?

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    Re: Faulty CPU - Please Help

    Thanks for the reply, Tonka.

    Thankfully I got it from someone I know who runs his own PC store. I retained the old CPU and the only thing that has stopped me from trying to refit that is I have no thermal paste!

    The system had run without issue for 2 years before the CPU change. In fact, up until now it's been the most reliable PC I've owned.. hehe

    The PSU is a 500w Thermaltake and fine for this (I had done my homework prior to 'upgrading'). All connections are fine, everything has been reseated.

    There is no pattern to the crashes, it seems completely random. It may run Ok for an hour, sometimes it'll only get to the login screen. As perviously mentioned, the STOP messages are different most times, ie:

    Page fault in non paged area

    An attempt has been made to write to a read only area

    IRQ not less or equal

    IRQL not less or equal

    Driver IRQL not less or equal

    A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval

    A wait operation, attach process or yield was attempted from a DPC routine...

    I should also mention the PC will freeze completely, requiring a reset.

    Ad-nauseum... lol

    I hope any info gained here will help others as much as myself who may experience a similar issue.

    Thanks in advance,

    Kras.
    Last edited by Kras; 12-02-2010 at 02:34 AM. Reason: Lockups/BSOD!

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    Re: Faulty CPU - Please Help

    Did you try re-sitting it. Sometimes if heatsink is not set correctly or somethign you can have problems.
    Failing that its the CPU or memory or occasionally MB.
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    Re: Faulty CPU - Please Help

    Re-seat, re-apply paste (get some from your mate)
    Test it in another rig, test another CPU in yours.

    Other than that there isn't much else I can recommend, have you changed any BIOS settings perhaps?

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    Re: Faulty CPU - Please Help

    Quote Originally Posted by Rob_B View Post
    Re-seat, re-apply paste (get some from your mate)
    Test it in another rig, test another CPU in yours.
    ^^ this

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    Re: Faulty CPU - Please Help

    All sorted for Jay, Was the Power caps had busted at the top. Replaced board and repaired the old board for his misses computer. jay is happy

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    Re: Faulty CPU - Please Help

    Capacitors failure? Possibly was that the motherboard just couldn't supply the voltage required by the X2 6000 safely.

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