Sept. 2004 i bought a P4 3.0C off of eBay. Ran well, overclocked it to 3450 stable, and higher unstable. It died on me ~ Mar. 2005. NSDS!! Being a pack-rat, i kept it. Over the last year and change, i tried it a few times, but nothing. One day...about 2 months ago, i decided to try it again...and voila!!! it worked. Hmmm?? Maybe it didn't die from NSDS afterall? I continue running it(now i can't get it stable past 3.2GHz, and proceed to run @3.15)for...~2 months.

A few days ago, while installing a new SATA HD, i ended up with problems, so down to my dungeon we go. Now, it won't boot into XP Pro, but will into VISTA on a seperate drive. I mucked around with it for 2 days, and it wouldn't let me reinstall XP. I would get different errors...acpi.sys is corrupted, Windows\System32\Config\System is corrupted. Dammit!! It also gave me various BSOD's.

Today... i decided to run Memtest....HOLY SH!T 100's of thousands of errors. So i take out 1 stick, and run it...errors. I switch with the other....massive errors. Okay..WTF! Both sticks bad?..i doubt it. Ahhhh!!! Maybe it's this tempermental CPU. I swap it for my 2.4A.. instantly boots into XP. Now, i'm on it typing this...all is hunky-dory. So... it died, came back to life after 1 1/2 years, and died again. Anybody else heard of or seen such a phenomenon? 8O


Sorry for the lengthy post, just thought some background was in store.

Its the Ghost of Intel past coming to haunt you with netburst!

Well obviously it didnt die if it ran again .it just got messed up considering your aslo OCing it and then when it "died" you left it for 1.5 years to sit and then put it back in and OCed it again. AFTER 1.5 years of course its going to be all wacky!

1. What does messed up mean? How does a CPU get messed up? Teenage hormones?

2. I tried it 2 or 3 times over the last 1-1/2 years..to no avail. :?

3. Why will it be wacky from sitting idle for a year and a half?

It went mouldy?

One of the pins is broken. I seen it... ask your neighbor.

Seriously... throw the POS in the garage. Why does it even matter? Maybe it is one of those temperamental electronic devices. Either way if it is giving you this many problems... toss it the garbage or use it for target practice.

All the pins are there and none bent. etc. Yes, i'm gonna toss it, but that's not the point to this thread. I found it very weird, and have never heard of a similar case...and wonder if anyone else has...or a possible explanation. Yes, it gave me a few more grey hairs, but it also showed me that maybe a CPU isn't dead, when everything else leads to that conclusion. :?

yeah only mine was a 1.4ghz XP that took either DDR 333 or PC 133.
i'll explains later...running late for work.lol

From time to time, corpses have been known to sit up in their coffins.