- Apr 14, 2002
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What are some of the classic symptoms of CPU failure?
The main reason I'm asking this question is that I've got a friend, that in a two year time period, he regularly had different symtomatic problems with his PC, resulting in RAM being replaced twice, motherboard once, hardrive once. The CPU was a PIII 1Gig FCPGA, now progressively as problems arose, RAM was replaced that for a while solved the problem, then it returned, then hardrive tested bad was replaced, problem solved, couple of months later, problems return M/B replaced, PC seems fine for a couple of months, then repeated more problems, even changed P/S once. I was so frustrated with this PC after two years of fussing with it, I wanted the satisfaction of throwing the thing in the nearest river, I literally gave him an AMD XP 1900+ w a stick of 512Mb PC2100 RAM, stipulating that he purchase a M/B for it at his expense, put a machine together for him with that setup, which he's not had any trouble with at all since. I know that PC repair is basically a trial and error, test what you can, swap out this and that, to eliminate the problem part, which I now believe the entire time was the CPU causing this trouble. My main question here is, is it possible for a CPU to cause other parts to fail or malfunction to the point of needing to be replaced. I have built and repaired so many PCs I've lost count a long time ago, but this particular problem child PC has always nagged at my curiosity, as to the whys of its constant failures, which by the way I have the CPU in my possesion, I haven't decided whether to frame the thing and hang it on the wall, or take a sledgehammer to it for the sheer satisfaction.
PS The hardrive that tested bad using the PIII setup, tested good with the AMD setup, shocked the crap out of me, made no sense whatsoever, Go Figure!
<b><font color=purple>Details, Details, Its all in the Details, If you need help, Don't leave out the Details.</font color=purple></b>
The main reason I'm asking this question is that I've got a friend, that in a two year time period, he regularly had different symtomatic problems with his PC, resulting in RAM being replaced twice, motherboard once, hardrive once. The CPU was a PIII 1Gig FCPGA, now progressively as problems arose, RAM was replaced that for a while solved the problem, then it returned, then hardrive tested bad was replaced, problem solved, couple of months later, problems return M/B replaced, PC seems fine for a couple of months, then repeated more problems, even changed P/S once. I was so frustrated with this PC after two years of fussing with it, I wanted the satisfaction of throwing the thing in the nearest river, I literally gave him an AMD XP 1900+ w a stick of 512Mb PC2100 RAM, stipulating that he purchase a M/B for it at his expense, put a machine together for him with that setup, which he's not had any trouble with at all since. I know that PC repair is basically a trial and error, test what you can, swap out this and that, to eliminate the problem part, which I now believe the entire time was the CPU causing this trouble. My main question here is, is it possible for a CPU to cause other parts to fail or malfunction to the point of needing to be replaced. I have built and repaired so many PCs I've lost count a long time ago, but this particular problem child PC has always nagged at my curiosity, as to the whys of its constant failures, which by the way I have the CPU in my possesion, I haven't decided whether to frame the thing and hang it on the wall, or take a sledgehammer to it for the sheer satisfaction.
PS The hardrive that tested bad using the PIII setup, tested good with the AMD setup, shocked the crap out of me, made no sense whatsoever, Go Figure!
<b><font color=purple>Details, Details, Its all in the Details, If you need help, Don't leave out the Details.</font color=purple></b>
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