Recent content by Jonathan_142

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    CPU - finding out if it's fried

    Thanks for your help, I tried 1LiquidPC's solution and bingo trying RAM afresh helped - I tried the step-by-step guide but that was with the old fan, so I hadn't tried adjusting RAM with the new fan and PSU. Looks like I did damage the SATA slot but had a spare, and presumably my onboard speaker...
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    CPU - finding out if it's fried

    Hi, my Ubuntu system was playing up for a while, freezing randomly. The past week it got worse - even running system tests from USB (such as the Ubuntu memory and HDD test or UBCD) or even Bios RAM tests caused it reboot after a short time. No beeps like I used to get on POST. I opened it up...