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faulty K6-2??
Name: dieymir Date: March 20, 2003 at 11:42:06 Pacific OS: Windows Me CPU/Ram: K6-2/256
Comment:
A friend of mine has a computer shop, a client brought a box with a K6-2 500Mhz. processor that 'freezes'. He try the processor and couldn't find the problem. Maybe the processor is fried, maybe the MB. Do you know a method to test if the processor is OK? A program or something that makes the processor execute their internal tests.
Name: johnoh Date: March 20, 2003 at 19:42:47 Pacific
Reply:
I think anything that tests the processor might fail if it was a motherboard problem too.
Easiest solution is to put the cpu in another motherboard.
99% of freezes are not because of the cpu.
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Response Number 2
Name: dieymir Date: March 21, 2003 at 01:58:12 Pacific
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Yes, of course, I have another MOBO to test it. We want to know how to test the processor to ensure that it can operate realibily.
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Response Number 3
Name: 666 Date: March 21, 2003 at 18:54:15 Pacific
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if it locks up all the time, maybe its overheating
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Response Number 4
Name: jonajsil Date: March 24, 2003 at 13:07:10 Pacific
Reply:
You're unlikely to have any problems with heat transfer from a K6-2 to the heatsink, so feel the heatsink. If it's more than lukewarm, then change the HSF and don't use it until you have the new one on. If it is fine, then download PerformanceTest (i'm not sure where, but Google'll find it) and compare the mathematical operations figures to the built-in baselines. And of course try another Socket 7 CPU in your mobo if readily available.
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