how to tell if your cpu is dead

ninetailfox07

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Nov 12, 2013
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Hi community...

I am having a bit of a problem with my rig. It was working absolutely fine the night before, was watching a movie... must have fallen asleep and so the system went into sleep mode. Woke the pc up and everything seemsed to be working fine. Was playing a game and nothing seemed to be causing an issue but I decided to do a restart of the system just because it had been in sleep mode all night and decided to give it fresh boot up. Since then it does not want to boot. I have tried almost everything apart from a cmos clearing. I even did an out of case test and when I did this it still didn't work so I decided to try disconnecting the cpu connector but leave 1 stick of ram in the board and it seemed to boot up perfectly. Does this mean my cpu is dead?

Asus z87 pro
Intel core is 4770k 3.5ghz
2x 4gb fury HyperX ram
Asus gtx 680 cuii top
 
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I would try clearing the cmos first and try to boot with both sticks. If it fails, try one stick and confirm it boots and if it does then shut down and install the other stick of ram in the same slot and see if it boots. If not you likely have a dead stick of ram. If the other stick boots, try replacing the one you took out to the other slot (ram sticks reversed from their original positions) and see if it boots. If it refuses to boot regardless which stick is in the second slot but will boot with either one in the first slot, you may have a faulty ram slot on the motherboard.

Something else you may try, if the two sticks are installed in the gold/yellow slots try moving them to the black slots and see if they'll both run and allow you...
I would try clearing the cmos first and try to boot with both sticks. If it fails, try one stick and confirm it boots and if it does then shut down and install the other stick of ram in the same slot and see if it boots. If not you likely have a dead stick of ram. If the other stick boots, try replacing the one you took out to the other slot (ram sticks reversed from their original positions) and see if it boots. If it refuses to boot regardless which stick is in the second slot but will boot with either one in the first slot, you may have a faulty ram slot on the motherboard.

Something else you may try, if the two sticks are installed in the gold/yellow slots try moving them to the black slots and see if they'll both run and allow you to boot then. You may have to adjust your bios settings but it's preferred to clear your cmos and set the bios back to factory defaults for the purposes of testing things since it's the most compatible/default configuration eliminating potentially faulty bios settings.
 
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